What Do Midlevel Leaders Need For Development? Learning That’s Immediately Actionable

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by Jennifer Long | January 10, 2018

This is the third in a series of four posts co-written by Jennifer and Louise Axon, Director of Content Strategy and Development at Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning, on how companies can design and deliver development programs that meet midlevel leaders’ needs. Midlevel leaders taking part in development programs gain exposure to a wealth of ideas for how they can build their expertise and boost their on-the-job performance. Key capabilities include accelerating talent development, leading change in their organization, executing their company’s competitive strategies, and cultivating the personal flexibility required to adapt to constant shifts in the business environment. It’s […]

What Do Midlevel Leaders Need For Development? Learning That’s Relevant

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by Jennifer Long | January 9, 2018

This is the second in a series of four posts co-written by Jennifer and Louise Axon, Director of Content Strategy and Development at Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning, on how companies can design and deliver development programs that meet midlevel leaders’ needs. In our first post in this series, What Do Midlevel Leaders Need for Successful Development? Programs with Three Key Characteristics, we outlined the diverse challenges of developing middle managers and identified three key attributes to designing and delivering successful programs. In this post, we will explore the first attribute – learning that’s relevant – in more detail. To free […]

How To Drive The Learner-Driven Experience

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by Jacob Pantoja | January 9, 2018

A year and a half ago, Vanguard began shifting its leadership development approach to experiment with more learner-driven experiences (LDE), including microlearning. These experiences differ from more formal, classroom programs, in that we leverage insights gleaned from learners to create content and we put the learners themselves more in control of what, when, and how they’re learning. We partnered with Harvard Business Publishing to help accelerate our shift to LDE by finding new ways to deliver world-class content. Their Harvard ManageMentor® is central to our learner-driven experience, and provides core content that’s relevant and timely. When launching any new learning […]

What Do Midlevel Leaders Need For Successful Development? Programs With Three Key Characteristics

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by Louise Axon | January 8, 2018

This is the first in a series of four posts co-written by Louise and Jennifer Long, Senior Manager of Programs at Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning, on how companies can design and deliver development programs that meet midlevel leaders’ needs. In a business landscape marked by ever-increasing volatility and uncertainty, organizations need skilled midlevel leaders more than ever. Why? These managers stand at a critical crossroads in their company. As strategies and priorities change more frequently, and as organizations become flatter and more dispersed, midlevel leaders become the connective glue that makes strategy work. They are key to facilitating high […]

This Year, We’ll Make Time For Learning

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by Jeff DeSmet | January 2, 2018

This time every year, many of us – myself included – make a new year’s resolution. And in a few months, more than 90% of us – myself included –will have failed to keep it. I put a lot of the blame for our failures on poor design. We like the idea of achieving whatever goal we’ve set. But we don’t create any pathway to achieving it. Like I said: poor design! As a learning designer, I grapple with design challenges all the time, and realize that changing behaviors (the goal of those unkept resolutions) can be daunting. But it’s […]