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LandAmerica: Selling a New Learning Structure
About five years ago, LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. changed its historically franchise-based operations style and molded its decentralized structure into a centralized, streamlined corporate entity with standardized processes and procedures.
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Looking Forward: The Learning & Development Industry in 2006
Each year brings with it a mix of new potential challenges and solutions for chief learning officers everywhere. With 2006 upon us, IDC asked Chief Learning Officer magazine’s Business Intelligence Board which areas of the learning and development industr
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Leveraging Technology for Improved Sales Performance
How can you measure the impact of technology and training on business, and more particularly, the sales function? The past 10 years have introduced e-mail, Web meetings and customer relationship […]
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Utilization of Marketing Resources – GOLD: Maureen McCormick, Director, Learning & Development, University of Iowa
The idea of using marketing techniques to create interest in learning and development activities is not a new one. However, effectively deploying marketing resources to increase learning and development dollars […]
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Leading Business Change – SILVER: Michael E. Pollard, Chief Learning Officer, Regions Financial Corp.
When Regions Financial Corp. acquired Union Planters in early 2004, the new company faced post-merger integration challenges, but CLO Michael Pollard understood that he and his team would play a […]
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MB Financial: Using Technology to Meet Compliance Needs
Chicago-based MB Financial Bank is one of the largest independent banks in the city and prides itself on providing financial services to customers with a personalized, relationship-oriented touch. This operating style is taught through MB University (MBU)
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Talent in China: Developing Professionals to Fill Growing Demand
Despite a population of 1.3 billion, a growing number of global companies are experiencing significant challenges attracting and retaining talent in mainland China. Leading companies respond to this challenge by providing their people with extensive learn
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International Incidence
As someone who loves to travel and meet new friendly faces, I’ve been fortunate in my professional life. In addition to frequent-flying around North America more times than I can remember, I’ve walked on the Great Wall of China, sipped coffee in the shado
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Worldwide Recruitment & Executive Search
TWC is a unit of Time Warner, the world’s largest media company. TWC is the nation’s second largest US cable company after Comcast, and has 10.9 million subscribers including 4.2 million digital video customers.
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A Successful Outsourcing Engagement, Step-by-Step
To conduct a successful outsourcing engagement, learning organizations must devote considerable time and energy to pre- and post-planning. Jim Hanlin, Ph.D, chief operating officer of TrainingOutsourcing.com, describes the relationship between the learnin