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Transcription, Captioning, and Localization: Tools and Partners to Consider for Video

As more companies look to unleash video initiatives across the workforce, the challenges faced include getting a good transcription of the text that was spoken during the video, associating the transcription with the video frames so that someone could read along, and translating these transcripts to the local languages needed. Here were the four questions asked in the past two months that we're gathering into a short synopsis of what's out there and what's changed since CorpU last covered accessibility and localization in learning programs: Are there any online services that provide machine transcriptions of video files ... Read More »

18 Jul 2011

Allocating Learning Budgets for Future Capability

According to data from the Corporate University Xchange (CorpU) 10th Annual Learning Innovation and Excellence Benchmarking Study, the majority of all learning organization respondents (55%) allocate at least part of their learning budgets based on the most important company objectives. What's more, 85% of the learning organization respondents identified as Experts allocate at least part of their budgets based on company objectives. Aligning learning budgets with current business needs is an important, if not a critical, element for learning organizations to be seen as strategic. However, the allocation of funds to long-term capability planning initiatives, while not an uncommon ... Read More »

13 Jul 2011

Mergers, Acquisitions, And Partnerships: May 2011 Update

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Partnership: May 2011 Update For the month of May, CorpU analysts and researchers have identified five mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships worthy of comment from the news, including Trivantis's acquisition of Flypaper, VMware's acquisition of Socialcast, Microsoft's acquisition of Skype, Knightsbridge Human Capital Management's acquisition of iPal Interactive, and InVision's acquisition of The Call Center School. Trivantis Acquired Flypaper Studio VMware Acquired Enterprise Social Collaboration Capabilities Microsoft Acquired Skype Knightsbridge Human Capital Management Acquired eLearning capabilities InVision Software Extends Cloud Computing Strategy Trivantis Acquired Flypaper Studio Trivantis, a provider of an elearning authoring ... Read More »

21 May 2011

Reflecting on the First Year of the Leaders as Teachers Institute

It is hard to believe that a year has come and gone since the Corporate University Xchange Leaders as Teachers Institute (LaTI) was launched in March of 2010 (see video clip below). The LaTI — a highly motivated group of Chief Learning Officers and Leadership Development Directors — is led by Dr. Ed Betof, Senior Fellow and Academic Director at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Leaders as Teachers: Unlock the Teaching Potential of Your Company's Best and Brightest. The group gathers virtually every month to discuss the Leaders as Teachers approach, share strategies that are being implemented, relay the ... Watch Video »

30 Apr 2011

Addressing Gender Issues in Online Social Collaboration

Recently, in the New York Times Opinion Pages, Susan C. Herring — professor of information science and linguistics at Indiana University and co-author of The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture, and Communication Online — wrote a brief article about the gender differences seen in online social collaboration: Where are the Women in Wikipedia? The author highlighted two studies that found that men contribute significantly more to online discussion. It isn't that women don't have ideas and/or facts to share with others, but rather that the environment's tone tends to drive women away. If considering developing a social media based ... Read More »

29 Apr 2011

Perception of Relevance and Applicability Drives out Resistance

Earlier this year, Clive Shepherd noted in a blog posting that all learning and development materials, even those deployed for regulatory or compliance purposes, have to make a case for relevance in order to achieve higher engagement by employees. This perspective — certainly not a new one — should be a common truth held by all learning professionals. What may not be as immediately apparent, however, is that learning design must integrate two aspects of this truth subtly into learning activities: your colleagues and co-workers need to perceive the learning activity as relevant; and your colleagues and co-workers need to be able ... Read More »

27 Apr 2011

Mergers, Acquisitions, And Partnerships: April 2011 Update

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Partnership: April 2011 Update For the month of April, CorpU analysts and researchers have identified five mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships worthy of comment from the news, including SuccessFactors' acquisition of Plateau, Peopleclick Authoria's acquisition of Aquire, Jive's acquisition of Proximal Labs, Desire2Learn's acquisition of Captual, and Polycom’s acquisition of Accordent. Contents: Peopleclick Authoria Acquires Analytics and Modeling Capabilities Jive Acquires Proximal Labs Desire2Learn to Offer Presentation Capture and Webcasting Solutions Polycom Acquires Accordent Technologies SuccessFactors Acquires Plateau Peopleclick Authoria Acquired Analytics and Modeling Capabilities Peopleclick Authoria, a provider of talent management software solutions ... Read More »

26 Apr 2011

Pearson on External Experts: Working with Top Gurus

At Pearson People Development, the switch from classroom training to telecourses prompted an abrupt paradigm shift. With the right content and process, they realized that people were able to learn just as well from a distance as they could in person, and maybe even better because they could attend more learning events at no cost and with a significantly reduced time commitment. From this shift in thinking came the goal of restructuring Pearson Learning in order to maximize the effectiveness of distance learning environments and experience. Part of this restructuring included the addition of a dynamic book club that featured ... Watch Video »

23 Apr 2011

jetBlue on Balanced Scorecards: Addressing Competency, Capability and Capability Needs

It is not unusual for doctoral students to end up writing a dissertation that is different from their original idea. This was exactly the case for Mike Barger, Ed.D., former CLO at jetBlue University. As a student in the University of Pennsylvania CLO doctoral program, he started his dissertation journey focusing on how best to prepare dedicated workforce development professionals in a corporate university environment to be effective in their roles. After being handed an assignment to build a balanced scorecard system for his company, however, he made the decision to change that focus to how to create a ... Watch Video »

22 Apr 2011

Learning Agility is a Key HiPo Competency

When thinking of high-potential employees (HiPos), most learning professionals would agree that HiPos need to be identified early, supported by the company, and developed so that they will be the effective company leaders of the future. In the video clip below, Rebecca Ray, former CLO-in-Residence at CorpU and former CLO at Mastercard, agrees and shares her perspective regarding the one key competency that all high potentials should have: learning agility. What is Learning Agility? Bob Eichinger and Mike Lombardo wrote an article in 2004 entitled Learning Agility as a Prime Indicator of Potential. They also published a book about the ... Watch Video »

20 Apr 2011

CorpU on Leadership Development: What Kind of Leader Am I?

While there may not be a single blueprint for the ideal leadership development program that can be applied across all organizations, there are certain elements that are essential no matter where you apply your learning efforts. Among them is a clear vision of what a good leader looks like now and in the future, the ability to articulate success, self-awareness of the leaders, and a customized development process. An entire leadership development program these elements do not make, but they do form a pretty solid start. A Clear Vision of a Good Leader The first element is a clear vision ... Watch Video »

19 Apr 2011

Farmers Insurance on Emotional Intelligence: "Looking Forward to Great Benefits"

During the 2009 Corporate University Xchange Global Leadership Congress held in Philadelphia, a seed planted during discussions about emotional intelligence got Mike Cuffe, Vice President of the University of Farmers, thinking about the opportunity available to him to expand the competencies of the leaders at Farmers Insurance to include emotional intelligence. With his newly discovered belief that social and emotional intelligence actually is more important than the standard, traditional leadership behaviors, Cuffe and his team developed and launched a strategy around social/emotional intelligence as part of their leadership development program. This launch took place this year, and is meant ... Watch Video »

18 Apr 2011

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