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How Global Learning Is Evolving “Global Learning and Talent Solutions: Best Practices Across North America, Europe, and Asia” will give you insight into how companies around the world are taking a world-wide view of learning and talent management and meeting challenges with innovative solutions. Many companies are facing severe shortages in their management ranks, with no real leadership development strategy to fill the pipeline. In addition, the current U.S. economic environment is forcing organizations to look for ways to cut costs while at the same time improve employee performance. Asian companies face a different, but no less pressing, problem in their high rates of growth and fiercely competitive labor market. The 71-page report is based on survey responses from approximately 1,000 companies representing a cross-section of industries, geographies, and company sizes. Additionally, analysts interviewed 40 HR and learning executives from around the world. According to the report, gaps in the leadership pipeline are a top challenge for companies in all geographies. However, employee retention is a significantly bigger challenge in Asia, where the demand for skilled labor is very acute, than in North America and Europe. The report also shows talent shortages by job function. For more information, visit the Website www.bersin.com. What Goal-Setting Can Do Technology Challenges? A report titled “Making the Choice Between On-Premise and OnDemand Solutions” was written to help business and IT decisionmakers make educated choices between traditional and new-generation solutions. “Globalization and the Internet are transforming the competitive landscape,” the report says. “While they are both creating new market opportunities, they are also lowering traditional barriers to entry in many industries. This is making it harder for businesses to differentiate themselves in order to win and sustain customer loyalty. At the same time, escalating fuel costs are making it more expensive to conduct face-to-face sales meetings and on-site support visits.” Corporate IT managers today must deploy an effective Internet communications platform to facilitate sales and support requirements. And they must implement systems that can track and analyze the productivity of these sales, marketing and support activities. While plenty of products exist to address these needs, they require significant capital and skills to be fully utilized. These challenges and more are outlined in the whitepaper. It is available via the Website www.2elearning.com under resource center. See the top 10 tips HR managers can use to drive better organizational alignment for improved performance across their company. Implementing sound, universally accepted goal setting processes, coupled with the use of an effective system for managing and tracking these processes is one of the best ways HR can contribute to an organization’s bottom line. “With the current economic forecast, it is now more important than ever to make sure employees’ goals reflect the organization’s overall goals to ensure everyone is working toward the same mission,” says Richard Oyen, director of HR and talent development at SumTotal Systems. “By helping to set organizational alignment, HR departments have the ability to impact their company like never before and create significant productivity improvements.” In an effort to enable HR departments to have a more profound impact on their organization’s performance, here are some best practices for employee goal setting: Know the goals – HR should be involved with executives and senior management as they plan organizational goals for the year ahead to grasp the business issues and challenges which are driving the goals. Get buy-in – The executive team should support HR’s efforts to align goals and help communicate the importance of the program so employees understand the executive team stands behind it. Cascade goals – Once the goals are set at the top of the organization, they should work their way down in the organization. Elearning! February/March 2009 15 http://www.bersin.com http://www.2elearning.com

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Elearning - February/March 2009 Contents Editor’s Note News Social Networking Popular Learning Needs Technology On Competency Management IT Employment Drops Trendlines Deals Learning Roles in Talent Management Informal E-Learning and Web 2.0 Cover Story: Learning Your Way to Profits Collaboration Trends, Strategies 12 Wishes for LMSs, LCMSs Tips: Recession-Proofing Your Job Case Study: Military Training Case Study: City of Arlington, Va. New Products Pop Quiz Last Word

Elearning - February/March 2009

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