Learning Executives Briefing

Authors and former Disney Company Learning leaders Mark Jones and Jeff Kober ask: Can you really sustain excellent customer service over the long haul, if you are not sustaining the internal employee experience as well?

Today's world is fast-paced, global, and project-oriented. Your role in this changing environment often involves leading or participating in global virtual teams. How productive and effective is your team?

The systems don't come cheap, but they may ultimately save serious money for a learning organization while improving the quality of the communications, according to a recent report.

A new study from the Wharton School suggests that the role of HR, while supposedly undergoing huge shifts the past decade, has not seen all that much change.

New research from ASTD and i4cp indicates that companies are taking succession planning deeper down the org chart, but many indicate they need to improve the process.

A new book by acclaimed leadership experts Dave and Wendy Ulrich delves into the deeper meaning of organizations and their relationships with employees who seek to find meaning in their work. LXB talks with the authors.

Is group mentoring—an increasingly popular strategy for augmenting traditional learning and development—right for your organization?

While often the subject of academic research, a new study puts hard numbers to the impact of changes in the learning culture, and the organization as a whole.

Do failures in an organization's culture lead to disasters such as the ongoing oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico? If you suspect your own organization is capable of making such mistakes, what do you do to prevent them?

CLOs, and pretty much everyone else in the workplace learning field, will find new insights, as well as tools to assist them, in this new comprehensive guide: The ASTD Leadership Handbook.

A new study suggests that even with an improving economy, companies are not likely to bulk up. Learning leaders need to be ready to upskill managers to handle higher head counts in flatter organizations.

Martyn Sloman, a research academic who specializes in training and development, spoke with Learning Executives Briefing about the new direction this industry should take in the future.

High-performance companies are more likely to emphasize diversity practices and policies as a result of a business case, according to a new survey.

Authors Shawn and Kevin Coyne are ready to show you a new way to generate the best ideas and solve the biggest problems: brainsteering.

Jay Cross takes us on a quick trip to the future of learning and a world where the learning function may no longer exist—at least not in a way we would recognize right now.

A new study from ASTD suggests that most organizations believe in and encourage informal learning, but measuring its impact and supporting it with budgets still lag behind. While some of the data might be surprising, what is not surprising is that most or