CorpU Blog: Organizational Learning
Learn all about the Organizational Learning movement and how to apply it to your business.
From Major League Baseball to the Office, Active Learning Can Up Your Game
Leveraging Online Learning to Build Effective Leadership Skills
Online, cohort-based learning cuts costs and offers new learning opportunities as organizations experience high rates of change, thanks to globalization, regulations, political shifts, and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Transforming Your Company Into a Learning Organization
In 1958, the average tenure of companies on the S&P 500 was 60 years. Today, that number is 10, and this rapid pace of change shows no sign of slowing any time soon. In addition to the accelerating pace of change, work is more complex than ever before;...
10 Principles for Delivering Virtual Learning Events
As learning and development professionals continue to adapt to the new realities of the workplace in 2020, many trainings and workshops are now being conducted online. Although it is impossible to fully replicate the experience of an in-person meeting, there...
Virtual Teaming Requires Deliberate Practice
Doug Shupinski is Director of Leadership Development at Merck, and no stranger to leading virtual teams at all levels. Doug spoke with our team to convey his trust and excitement in the opportunities available to all of us in holding our meetings virtually, even...
Maximize the Human Elements
In our recent interview with Mario about adapting our working world during this global crisis, Mario emphasized that the basics remain the same: we have to practice staying connected and the most simple of rules still apply when conducting virtual meetings. More...
Provide Strength Through Culture & Networking
When people come together in groups, a culture naturally develops. With many of us converting our meetings and our work to a virtual setting, we must remember that culture is still always with us - we are still people interacting together. We need to fight any...
Deeper Social Connections are The Key
Shawn Achor describes how the COVID crisis is so unique in how we perceive and create social connections, the number one predictor of our long-term levels of happiness and success. In the midst of this huge challenge, we will need to - more...
The Science of Stress
A crisis may leave us feeling almost paralyzed. And our stress levels rise. Recent study of stress teaches us that there is a way to move past that immobilizing feeling, to restart our belief system that our behavior can make a difference. Shawn Achor...
How To Rapidly Virtualize Strategic Learning
Our panelists had an incredibly engaging conversation on leading through crisis. Erica Wright from Agilent Technologies, Erin Mara from BJ’s Wholesale Club, and Steve Warner from Nestlé each shared how they are rapidly virtualizing talent and leadership development...
Developing An Effective Decision-Making Process
More people are making more decisions—and are being forced to make them faster—in an increasingly unpredictable and less forgiving environment. Whatever their role or organization, most professionals have to make a decision “now”—followed by another decision...
You Can’t Create A Learning Organization Without Cleaning the Tank
In their 2016 paper, “The Great Training Robbery,” researchers at Harvard Business School explained how the $164 billion corporations spent on corporate learning in 2012 produced little change in individual or organizational behavior or in financial performance. Most...
Leading the Adaptive Enterprise – Become a Learning Organization
A step change in leadership development
By Kimo Kippen founder of Aloha Learning Advisors In the Tour de France, cyclists roll like human-powered trains around corners, up and down hills, and through roadside villages. Teams practice precise rotations in and out of the lead to block the wind, before...
CorpU Analytics Offers You New Peace of Mind About How To Effectively Develop Leaders
Download White Paper Foreword by Kimo Kippen In the Tour de France, cyclists roll like fastmoving, human-powered trains around corners, up and down hills, and through roadside villages. Cycling is anything but an individual sport. Teams practice precise rotations in...
Your Leadership Training Is Probably a Waste of Money. Here’s What’s Missing.
Training effectiveness may be short-lived without the opportunity to follow through. Alan Todd and Robert E. Quinn CEO of CorpU | Co-founder of The Center for Positive Organizations As evolving technology increasingly changes the way we work, businesses are investing...
The Impact Of Big Data Analytics On Leadership Development
Each year, U.S. businesses spend $20 to 50 billion on leadership training. With that kind of investment, one might assume that the state of American leadership is thriving. But the research tells a different story.
How Do You Accelerate the Long Cycle of Culture Change
Out With the Old, in With the New Culture change is a long, arduous process. Changing an existing culture is much more difficult than establishing a brand-new culture. Discarding the old values and behaviors, and instilling new ones is a hard task. Managers must...
People Analytics and the Power of Data
People analytics, the data analysis related to human resources within an organization, is becoming far more prevalent among forward-thinking companies. A recent study by Forbes1 showed that 69% of companies surveyed were in the process of integrating data to...
Tech Firm Helps the Fortune 1000 Crowdsource Innovation Through Virtual Idea Tournaments
CorpU's strategy activation platform now inspires teams across the enterprise to contribute and evaluate peer insights to influence corporate strategy PHILADELPHIA, PA--(Marketwired - May 11, 2017) - CorpU today announced the launch of an "Idea Tournament" module...
The Short, Online Course In Gratitude That Can Make You A Better Boss
By Ainsley Harris Every weekday, Cory Ludens starts his morning by writing out three “gratitudes”–each specific, and never repeated. Over the last four years, he has named roughly 400. “It’s just a part of my life,” says Ludens, vice president of culture and events at...
What Happened to Gary Hamel’s Moon Shots?
When Gary Hamel wrote “Moon Shots for Management” for the February 2009 Harvard Business Review, it seemed like it would be a “shot heard ‘round the world” for business, according to Sue Todd, Chief Strategy Officer for CorpU. But why, Todd wonders, hasn’t it had more...
Splitting the Brain of the HR Professional
Business and management guru Ram Charan commented in a recent HBR article that it’s time for companies to split the HR function in two. One HR leader would focus on leadership and organization—and report directly to the CEO—and the other would manage things like...
Do Vacations Make Us Happier?
Need a vacation? Before you email your boss, breathe a sigh of relief, and start packing your skis, passport, tennis shoes, binoculars, or sun block…make sure it’s the right kind of vacation. Workplace happiness guru Shawn Achor—Harvard researcher and the New York...
Corporate Culture: Measuring the Un-measurable
About 80% of all mergers and acquisitions crash and burn—for two main reasons. The first is that technical processes such as IT don't match. The second is that the corporate cultures don't match. Companies almost always assess the first factor, but they normally don't...