Webinar
Immersive 3-D, Multi-User Virtual Environments and Simulation-Based Learning
May 22nd, 2008

Breakfast Club
Learning's Value to the Enterprise

Thu September 4th, 2008 7:30 am
AMA Executive Conference Center, New York, New York

CLO Symposium
Measuring Success:
Learning’s Positive Impact on Business
September 24th — 26th, 2008
Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, California

CLO Symposium
Measuring Success:
Learning’s Positive Impact on Business
September 24th — 26th, 2008
Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, California

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CLO Awards

The Chief Learning Officer magazine Learning In Practice Awards recognize the best and the brightest minds in the corporate learning industry. The 2008 CLO Learning In Practice Awards will honor those industry leaders who have demonstrated excellence in the design and delivery of workforce learning and development programs. The awards will be presented at the Chief Learning Officer magazine Fall 2008 Symposium.

The Chief Learning Officer magazine 2008 Learning in Practice Awards categories are:

• Chief Learning Officer of the Year: The CLO of the Year creates the vision for change in her/his organization and strategically deploys its training resources to achieve defined business goals and add value for the stakeholders, including the employees.
• The Business Impact Awards: Learning executives who have demonstrated measurable business impact of their workforce development programs in the past year.
• The Innovation Awards: Learning executives who have successfully applied emerging technologies and/or methodologies to create a stimulating and engaging combination of content and modalities in the past year.
• The Leadership Awards: Learning executives who have demonstrably extended their power and influence within their organization in the past year.
• The Magellan Awards: Learning executives who have delivered development initiatives to geographically dispersed and/or culturally and linguistically diverse audiences internally and/or externally in the past year.
• The Vanguard Awards: Learning executives who have either launched an enterprise learning function or overhauled existing workforce development initiatives in the past year.

Vendor Awards: Given to a vendor that has demonstrated outstanding performance in a particular category during the past year. The nomination for all LIP vendor awards will require submission of a relevant and brief case study (1,000 words or fewer) with a particular client, as well as a point of contact at the client organization.

• Outsourcing: For vendors that have taken over all or a portion of an organization’s learning and development function in the past year.
• Technology: For vendors that have rolled out an innovative and effective new learning technology or product suite for a client in the past year.
• Content: For vendors that have created superior customized and/or off-the-shelf learning content in the past year.
• Customer Service: For vendors that have demonstrated a commitment to top-notch implementation, maintenance and support around a client’s learning solution in the past year.

May 2008
Building Exceptional Virtual Learning Teams
by Brandon Hall

In today’s new workplace, virtual teams are the status quo. How can you build an exceptional team in a cross-functional, virtual work environment?

May 2008
Secret Fears of Successful CLOs
by Fred Harburg

We all churn to get things done and strive to look good while doing it. Unfortunately, we often choose to hide our anxieties, even from ourselves.

May 2008
The Importance of Form Factor
by Bob Mosher

I recently had an experience in which I learned a valuable lesson about the importance of form factor, or the literal form learning takes when consumed.

Business Intelligence

May 2008
Changes in Learning and Development Staffing
by Cushing Anderson

Learning executives surround themselves with talented professionals to accomplish their goals. This month, members of the CLO Business Intelligence Board share their thoughts about staffing trends.

Profile

May 2008
Coaching His Way to the Top
by Agatha Gilmore

Jeff Lamb, senior vice president and chief people and administration officer at Southwest Airlines, is a real team player. He has translated his unique brand of leadership into a development program for more than 32,000 employees nationwide.

Case Study

May 2008
Mission Safety: Virtual Learning Helps Protect U.S. Marines
by Gabe Batstone