I just got married on November 11th and we decided to go to New Zealand for our honeymoon. Through all of my reading in the field of learning and development, I seemed to remember a blog of a similar philosophy that ...

I recently spent a weekend in Washington D.C. to make a vacation out of the inaugural CLO Academy that was being held in Lansdowne, VA. It was a quick trip in D.C. so we were rushed to see the major ...

Is it me or is building a community the big buzz in the field of learning and development today?  It seems that every organization I've gotten involved with for my own personal development is offering a membership in their own community to go along ...

It's obvious that our world is undergoing changes that are far beyond advances in organizational learning and development...but some of the similarities are apparent. Business 2.o's recent cover read "The Next Disruptors:  Meet 11 Companies Whose Breakthroughs Will ...

I am part of the inaugural class of both the CLO Academy and the CLO Institute and am summarizing my experiences to date through a comparison and contrast of the two programs for anyone that is considering attending either ...

Days 2 & 3 of the CLO (Chief Learning Officer) Academywere excellent.  We spent most of our time working through a case study as teams in separate rooms while CLOs and Learning Executives rotated throughout the rooms.  At the end of ...

In a Chief Learning Officer magazine article titled "People, the Neglected Part of Technology", author David Miller explains his perspective on how learning and knowledge management should be integrated with the implementation of new technologies, such as a new ERP ...

A recent report in Chief Learning Officer magazine stated that 90% of all sales training programs resulted in only moderate increases in sales and those increases lasted for just a very brief period of time (90-120 days).  The ...

I was born and raised in St. Petersburg, FL and now I call Denver, CO home. I actually just returned from FL last night; just ahead of the impending Tropical Storm Ernesto.  During my years in FL I saw my ...

Inc. magazine recently published the article "Worried that employees are wasting time on the Web?  Here's why you shouldn't crack down" in which the author suggests that web surfing isn't all that bad.  He makes several good points. One ...