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Career Roadmaps Through Learning

Career Roadmaps Through Learning: A Guide for Learning Pros

As a learning professional tasked with designing career roadmaps for others, your role is pivotal in guiding employees towards fulfilling and successful career trajectories. Here’s a framework to help you empower individuals within your organization to create impactful career roadmaps through learning: Your Role: Facilitator and Guide Remember, you are not creating the roadmap for […]

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Simplicity in Corporate Learning

The Power of Less: Why Simplicity is the Secret Weapon of Corporate Learning

In today’s corporate learning and development (L&D) world, there’s a constant pressure to innovate, to adopt the latest technologies, and to create increasingly complex programs. We equate sophistication with effectiveness, believing that more content, more features, and more intricate designs will lead to better learning outcomes. However, in this pursuit of complexity, we often overlook

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Transforming Learning Goals

The Learning Leader as a Transformer: Reshaping Learning Goals, Methods, and the L&D Department

Jerry Zandstra: Miriam, thank you for taking the time to speak with me today. As a recognized transformer CLO, you’ve been instrumental in helping to shape the organizations you’ve worked at. I’d love to dive into your suggestions and recommendations based on what you’ve seen over the years. Miriam Taylor: Sure, I’m happy to share,

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Technical skills development

Learning Leader as a Skills Developer

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, learning leaders face the critical challenge of ensuring their teams possess the necessary technical skills to thrive. This article delves into practical strategies and insights from experienced professionals, offering a roadmap for cultivating a culture of continuous learning and empowering teams to master new technologies. Jerry Zandstra (JZ): As

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Long-Range Learning Planning

Learning Leader as a Long-Range Planner

Long-range planning is often a struggle for learning and development (L&D) leaders. Caught in the whirlwind of daily demands, it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. However, strategic, long-term planning is essential for aligning L&D with business goals, maximizing resources, and ultimately driving organizational success. This article explores the importance of long-range planning

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Stakeholder Engagement in L&D

Stakeholder Engagement: The Key to L&D Success

Successful Learning & Development (L&D) initiatives rely on strong stakeholder engagement. Without the right people involved at the right time, projects can face delays, misalignment, or lack of buy-in. Our recent webinar explored best practices for identifying, involving, and collaborating with stakeholders to drive project success. Before beginning a project, it is important to identify

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Leading High-Performing Learning Teams

Learning Leader as Team Leader

Today’s learning teams are more diverse and distributed than ever, presenting unique leadership challenges. In this article, Miriam Taylor and Jerry Zandstra discuss building high-performing teams in this complex landscape, exploring key areas like trust, continuous learning, motivation, and conflict management. Their insights offer valuable guidance for learning leaders navigating the modern workplace. Miriam Taylor:

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