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DID YOU KNOW? Visitors to the home page of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games can learn basic conversational phrases in Chinese and English with the help of the Fuwa, the ﬁve ofﬁcial mascots of the Beijing Summer Games. Source: http://en.beijing2008.cn/languagecorner. transform experience into knowledge, and knowledge into peak performance. Our executive development programs are unlike others in that they use your experiences and the experiences of others to help you sustain a new level of professional performance. We call it Leveraging the Power of Experience. Learn more about this approach and ﬁnd a program to reach your performance peak at www.ExecDev.unc.edu Scalability: Depending upon the design of a specific learning olympics event, make it scalable for groups of all sizes. For example, three Innovation Olympics events can accommodate thousands of people, while the other three require abundant resources to facilitate groups exceeding 100 participants. It’s not always feasible because of resource constraints, such as facilitators needed, rooms, materials, time or budget. Look for ways to stretch resources to make the events as scalable as possible. Fun and creative: The core of any learning olympics is the enjoyment and entertainment it brings. When people play and have fun within structured learning, the results, including comprehension and retention, can be superior to traditional training methods. From the beginning, tell people to let loose and have fun, but also engineer the fun factor into learning by using creative ways to get people relaxed, uninhibited and playful. For Innovation Olympic events, we used lively background music to keep energy high, played comedy-oriented audio and projected video clips such as those in “America’s Funniest Home Videos” at appropriate times to get people laughing. Consider embedding magicians, comedians and other performers as event co-facilitators, so they can use their skills to reinforce key learning points while adding the critical entertainment factor. Using a series of ongoing learning olympics in your organization can be an excellent way to train, motivate and energize employees. But ﬁrst, target the groups that would most enjoy and beneﬁt from this type of training, then start small with one event. Let the games begin! CLO Ray Anthony is president of Anthony Innovation Group and a consultant, trainer, executive coach and author of six books and more than 50 articles. He has worked with Fortune 100 companies, as well as NASA and the CIA, on organizational change and innovation-acceleration strategies. He can be reached at editor@clomedia.com. Open Enrollment Programs • Executive Development Institute • Negotiation Skills for Eﬀective Managers • Leadership Eﬀectiveness Workshop • The Business of Human Resources • Financial Analysis for Non-Financial Managers • Women in Business: Transitioning to Leadership (New!) • Advanced Financial Decision-Making • Driving Proﬁtable Growth with Strategic Innovation (New!) http://en.beijing2008.cn/languagecorner http://www.ExecDev.unc.edu http://www.execdev.unc.edu http://www.execdev.unc.edu

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Chief Learning Officer - August 2008 Editor's Letter Contents Connections Business Impact Trends Best Practices Effectiveness High-Octane Leadership Development Leadership and Personality CLO Profile Discussion Groups: Harvesting Value from Real-World Experiences Kimpton 2.0: Discussion on the Web Learning Olympics: Development Through Competition Bypassing the Obstacles to Change Listen Up: A How-To-Guide for Podcasting University of Toyota: A Success Story in Podcast Implementation What Stinks About Webinars? Webinars for Learning Professionals Case Study Business Intelligence Advertisers' Index Editorial Resources In Conclusion

Chief Learning Officer - August 2008

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