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How Vigilant Organizations Act Faster
The world of business is increasingly turbulent. And as the pace of technological change accelerates, organizations must learn to see signals sooner and -- importantly-- learn to act faster than rivals upon those insights. Charles Schwab did so when it became an early...
Develop Vigilant Leaders to Stay A Step Ahead of Competitors
In the mid-2000s, RadioShack was so focused on serving a growing population of smartphone users that it failed to see it was alienating its loyal electronic hobbyist client base. Those hobbyists began shopping elsewhere, and, when corporations like AT&T and Apple...
How Vigilant Firms Orchestrate Financial Payoffs
In a study of 135 multinational firms over an eight-year period, vigilant organizations had 200% higher growth in market capitalization and were 33% more profitable than their vulnerable rivals.1 This field study built on an earlier Harvard Business Review assessment...
Creating the Purpose-Driven Organization
A family member had an emergency and I spent a lot of time with him in the hospital. The experience was not pleasant. Most of our interactions with the doctors suggested a lack of caring. They seemed stressed or withdrawn, and in one case, deeply abusive. Given...
Becoming a Purpose Driven Organization
The concept of a purpose-driven leader or a purpose-driven organization is not new. But how to do it successfully has been elusive. This book presents a compelling economic argument for WHY you should become a purpose-driven organization NOW, and illustrates HOW to...
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...
How to Build Organizational Resilience
Driven by exponential technological change and sociopolitical and economic uncertainty, the average lifespan of companies on the S&P Index is becoming shorter and more volatile. The pace of change is accelerating. Employers and workers are under immense stress to...
IELA Announces Winners of 2019 E-Learning Awards Business Division
Every June on the final day of the International Conference on eLearning in the Workplace at Columbia University, the winners of the International e-Learning Association’s Business Division Awards are announced. This year’s winners reflect a growing focus on building...
Three Small Actions To Make Better Decisions
Critical thinking and decision making skills frequently rank as the top attributes companies believe effective leaders should possess. And researchers at Bain & Company have found that decision effectiveness is 95 percent correlated with financial performance. At...
CorpU and Penn State Recognized for Award-Winning Work With Agilent Technologies
CorpU and Penn State Smeal College of Business received the Silver Award in this year’s coveted 2018 Learning In Practice Awards sponsored by Chief Learning Officer magazine. The Excellence in Academic Partnerships award recognized the solution developed cooperatively...
Agilent Technologies Wins Gartner Talent Payback of the Year Award
Agilent Technologies, a leading Life Sciences firm, has won a prestigious Talent Payback of the Year Award from Gartner’s SCM World Community. Agilent’s Supply Chain Academy, powered by the CorpU Organizational Learning System, represents a breakthrough in learning...
Agilent Receives Prestigious Gartner Inc. Power of the Profession Award 2019 for Talent Payback of the Year
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced that it has received a Gartner Inc. Power of the Profession Award in the category of Talent Payback of the Year, a prestigious honor that recognizes the company’s innovative...
Leading the Adaptive Enterprise – Become a Learning Organization
Listen to Learn
By Alan Todd Proving the value of learning and development programs is important, but it’s no easy feat. According to data from LinkedIn’s 2017 Workplace Learning Report, 32 percent of learning executives believe demonstrating ROI is a top challenge for L&D, and...
The Four Steps Of Strategic Persuasion
By Alan Todd and Dr. Mario Moussa Work relationships are becoming flatter, looser, wider, and faster. By 2020, flexible labor will represent 20 percent of the workforce, with work becoming more project-based. Nearly 50 percent of managers now spend half their work...
Positive Leadership
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This Technology Can Help Leaders Better Understand Their Employees
By Alan Todd CEO of CorpU In today's workplace, the nature of communication is undergoing a profound shift. While we often assume that ubiquity of technology is driving us apart, LinkedIn's 2018 Workforce Learning Report suggests that interpersonal communication is...
Using Learning Analytics to Improve Outcomes
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...
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Leadership Analytics Pioneer Launches New Tool to Improve the Depth and Diversity of Leadership Pipelines
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Leadership analytics pioneer, CorpU, today announced CorpU Analytics, an evidence-based tool that provides corporate executives with precise insights into the effectiveness of a company's leadership development program....
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...
Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Hiring, and It Might Not Be That Bad
By Rebecca Greenfield and Riley Griffin Artificial intelligence promises to make hiring an unbiased utopia. There’s certainly plenty of room for improvement. Employee referrals, a process that tends to leave underrepresented groups out, still make up a bulk of...
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...
University of Michigan to offer 20-week leadership development program
Dive Brief Planned for delivery through the school's CorpU online platform, the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business is rolling out a 20-week program designed to provide managers with needed tools to execute "high-impact leadership principles," including...
Making the Case for Custom Supply Chain Executive Education
Under pressure to perform at unprecedented velocities in a tight labor market, more companies are exploring custom executive education options as a way to bring their supply chain leaders up to speed (and keep them there). By Bridget McCrea, Editor · July 13, 2018...
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