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Collaboration in the Cloud: Leveraging Enterprise Social Networking to Drive Business 
From Solitary to Social: The Evolution of Learning
Six Steps to Make Sure Your Organization is a Best-Run Business for People
Learning Means Business: Lessons from Award-winning Learning Initiatives
Learning ROI — Alignment, Technology, and Measurement Essentials for Results
Readiness to Learn: Motivation to Apply Learning and Impact Performance
The New Finish Line for Learning and Development
Global Learning Drives Business: Customer Loyalty Case Study
It's in the Mix: How Collaborative, On-Demand, and Mobile Learning Drive Your Business
Accelerate Critical Business Process Adoption with Breakthrough Learning
Leadership Development as a Business Improvement Process
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Five Ideas for Learning Initiatives in the New Year
Article:Learning leaders at firms across industries are ringing in 2012 with some big ideas, looking to fix old problems and open up new opportunities.
What better way to kick off the new year than by taking a big bite out of a big initiative? I checked with a number of CLOs and executives to learn where they will focus in the new year.
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Learning on Speed
Article:Apple recently got lots of press for its move into textbook publishing, but its move was secondary to another announcement made a few weeks earlier. On January 3, Khan Academy announced that Vi Hart would be moving to Mountain View and joining its team.
The Khan Academy, founded by Salman Khan (a former hedge fund manager), is a not-for-profit, online venture that is currently revolutionizing K-12 education. If you want to know how, here is the obligatory TED video. With over 4 million unique users each month, the Khan Academy is attracting high-profile attention, including funding from the Gates Foundation.
Maximizing the ROI on Employee Training with Mobile Learning
Article:No executive in their right mind would argue with the fact that employee training is a basic business necessity. When organizations experience growth, change or competitive pressure, gaps emerge between what employees know and what they need to know in order for the company to remain relevant in the marketplace.
Training and flexible working worth more than money to millennials, according to PwC
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Millennials will form 50% of the workforce in 2020, and the majority value training and development and a healthy work/life balance over salary.
This is according to a major survey of 4,000 graduates from PwC, which found that nearly a quarter (22%) of respondents rated training and development as their number one benefit. Flexible working followed with 19% claiming it was most important, while cash bonuses ranked third (14%).
The report Millennials at work, reshaping the workplace also showed that 72% of those born between 1980 and 2000 have also had to make some sort of compromise in terms of location, salary or industry to get into work.
Jon Andrews, Partner, PwC says: “Millennials want more than ‘just a job’. They expect rapid progression, a varied and interesting career, and constant feedback.
The Yin and Yang of Formal + Informal Learning
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An intentional mix of formal and informal learning strategies might be just what your company needs.
In the East, it is said that people who are yin are creative, passive, and easygoing. When they tend to lethargy, they are encouraged to become more yang. On the other hand, those who are yang are seen as active, precise, and controlled. They are nudged to strive toward yin. It is acceptable to never find balance between yin and yang, but instead to always seek, reflect, and add elements of the other.
