Category: Learning and Development Stories Podcast
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Episode #13: Dan Pontefract on Launching a Corporate MBA Program
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What is the return on investment for a company to invest significant amounts of money send their up and coming talents to different business schools to earn an MBA degree? Dan Pontefract, currently the founder and CEO of the Pontefract Group, was investigating this question back in 2011 in his role as Chief Learning Officer…
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Episode #12: The Power of Mobilizing Employees to Create Training Content – an Interview with Patrick Veenhoff of Swisscom
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How do we get more colleagues to engage with L&D resources? This is a common concern facing L&D leaders. Swisscom, the major telecommunications provider in Switzerland, has been able to address such a question by encouraging employees to create training content. Patrick Veenhoff, Head of Learning & Development at Swisscom, shared his experiences with this…
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Episode #11: David Leaser of IBM on how Digital Badges Can Bring Multiple Benefits to an Organization
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There’s a massive change in the way people are developing skills. David Leaser, Senior Executive of Strategic Growth Initiatives for IBM’s Training and Skills program, shared the story of IBM’s response to these shifts through the IBM Digital Badge Program on episode 11 of the Learning and Development Stories Podcast. Stories David highlighted the development process of…
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Episode #10: Melissa Taylor of Porter Novelli on How Marketing Communications and L&D Can Partner Together
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“The recruitment of talent is more competitive than ever. Employer branding and being able to understand and connect with prospective employees requires a marketing and communications mindset as well as all of the knowledge and expertise that the talent and development side of the house brings.” This is the among the perspectives shared by Melissa…
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Episode #9: Britt Andreatta on using a Brain-Based Approach in Management Training
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A brain-based approach in management training can lead to real behavioral change. Dr. Britt Andreatta, an internationally recognized thought leader in leadership and learning, has seen this happen first-hand and shared these experiences on episode 9 of the Learning and Development Stories Podcast. As CEO and President of 7th Mind Inc, Britt highlighted the story…
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Episode #8: How a CLO Helped Change a Learning Culture through Smart Communications
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How do you get employees excited about learning? This was a question that Abhijit Bhaduri was grappling with back in 2009 when he was the Chief Learning Officer at Wipro, the information technology services company headquartered in Bengaluru, India. This was quite a challenge, particularly given the size of Wipro (160,000 employees at the time across…