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Building Leadership Skills for 2005
Each new year brings with it the inevitable resolution-making—but not just by individuals. Organizations are busy creating goals and highlighting areas for development, as well as planning budgets and strategies to guide enterprise activities in the comin
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GE Consumer Finance: Expanding Global Training, Expanding Business
As vice president of training and development for GE Consumer Finance, Ginny Ertl is responsible for creating a global learning community. With her help, 32,000 employees help bring good things to light.
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Manager’s Quiz: Are You a Coach or a Referee?
If you’re a manager-coach, you’re ensuring that your employees are experiencing as much success as possible. If you’re a manager-referee, you’re waiting for your staff to make mistakes so that you can run interference, call a penalty and tell the person w
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Leading Business Change: Gold Award
Kevin Wilde Vice President and Chief Learning Officer General Mills When the opportunity came in 2001 for General Mills to acquire long-time rival Pillsbury, Vice President and Chief Learning Officer […]
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Leading Business Change: Bronze Award
Jane Dowd Chief Learning Officer Evanston Northwestern Healthcare As head of learning and development, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Chief Learning Officer Jane Dowd played a major role in changing the record-keeping […]
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The CLO’s Critical Role: Nine Areas for Action
After presenting chief learning officers with a self-assessment in his last column, Jack Phillips offers nine action areas to help improve the learning organization and connect it to business goals and strategy.
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Technology-Driven Development Pathways
Organizational development has been an on-again, off-again trend, but it is still an important consideration in learning. CLOs leverage technology to develop the organization and drive the business forward.
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Jane Hutcheson: Banking on a Learning Culture
Today’s learning must keep up with business demand and strategy. As vice president of learning and development for Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group, Jane Hutcheson ensures education is a top-priority investment.
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Kathy Sutter: Creating a Balanced Toolkit for Learning
Office Depot offers endless rows of colorful pens, folders and gadgets designed to make working easier, more organized and efficient. A former schoolteacher for grades 4-8, Kathy Sutter, vice president of leadership development and global learning for Off
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Grooming the Next CLO
Chief learning officers often play a significant role in the succession planning activities for an organization. However, some evidence suggests that CLOs are not succeeding in developing their own staff to take on top-level learning executive positions w