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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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Lessons on Running Communications Workshops from Nikhil Dey of Genesis Burson-Marsteller
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One of the best parts of my job is running communications workshops for clients. I am always keen to learn from others who do similar work. On that note, I am delighted to have picked Nikhil Dey’s brain on this topic. Nikhil is President of the award-winning India-based PR agency Genesis Burson-Marsteller (part of the global…
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Academics: Create Content by Leveraging Different Assets
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Terrific – as an academic you understand the importance of creating content for public audiences. (Watch this video if you need to be convinced why creating content from your research is good investment of your time). But maybe it is a challenge for you to identify ways to create content in a time efficient manner. Before…
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Episode #5: Launching a New Strategic Centralized Learning Function – an Interview with L&D Leader Malika Viltz-Emerson
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What is the best way to launch a strategic centralized learning function within an organization? Malika Viltz-Emerson, an L&D leader who has worked for the likes of Xerox and Grubhub and is now the Senior Director of Global Learning, Strategy & Program Management with Microsoft, answered this question on episode 5 of the Learning and…
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Research Perspectives on the Challenges and Opportunities Facing Education Leaders
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Frustrated by bureaucracy at your institution? Perplexed on how to manage the rankings process? If yes, you are not alone. My former IMD Business School colleague Janet Shaner, now the Founder of a consultancy called Top 10 Learning Solutions, surveyed management education professionals and unearthed some of their common challenges and opportunities. I believe there…
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Increasing Power and Influence as Communicators
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Why does it seem like certain folks in organizations accrue more power and influence than others, even if their work or intelligence might not seem all that exceptional? Stanford University professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote a very interesting book that provides the rationale as to why this happens. There is guidance in this book that is…