Join our Community of Excellence: Apply for HCM Excellence Awards by April 17

 

We are less than one month away from our HCM Excellence Awards Program entry deadline and I’m so pleased with the entries that we have been receiving so far. There are a lot of great companies focused on the right things to develop their people and create a business impact across all aspects of the organization.

Last month I presented a webinar with our Senior Learning Analyst, David Wentworth, as we shared some examples from 2014.  In the last quarter of 2014 we conducted a survey to capture HCM Business Priorities for 2015. During our webinar, we spoke about creating a stronger link between learning and performance, which was one of the top six critical areas that HCM Business Leaders were focused on to drive greater business results in 2015.  In 2014, our award applications also supported this premise.

Whether the entries were about onboarding, leadership, performance support, or a basic learning or talent program, they offered a variety of approaches such as social, mobile, video conferencing, video, e-learning, instructor-led training, gaming, and others. This diversity is necessary to support and deliver effective development opportunities to today’s workforce (and tomorrow’s), which is multi-generational, diverse, global, and geographically dispersed.

Has your team created or implemented a leading program or enabling technology to help streamline, save costs, and improve productivity within your organization?

Are you an HCM solution provider that has offered incredible technologies to your client organizations?

Then we want to hear from you and invite you to apply for Brandon Hall Group’s 2015 HCM Excellence Awards Program. Deadline is April 17, 2015.

To begin your application, apply here.

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Creating Learning Experiences

The most successful companies are focused are creating more opportunities by providing experiences rather than just formal instruction.

The easiest way to improve the link between learning and performance is to have a blended learning strategy – 70% on the job activity, 20% informal learning and 10% formal learning

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Source: Brandon Hall Group, 2015

70:20:10 has been around for a long time but we are just starting to understand how important this framework is to creating a learning program that produces breakthrough individual and organizational performance.

Ernst and Young received a gold award in 2014 for Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation. EY is an organization that exemplifies how learning can be linked to performance – they developed a Performance Agenda Program that aligned the consulting practice and learning team by providing a successful blended learning model. The results were nothing less than fantastic – they have generated incremental sales of $139 million since the kickoff of the program.

If you missed our webinar last month and would like to view the rest of our discussion and details about entering our HCM Excellence Awards Program, click here.

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Chief Executive Officer of Brandon Hall Group Mike Cooke Prior to joining Brandon Hall Group, Mike Cooke was the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of AC Growth. Mike held leadership and executive positions for the majority of his career, at which he was responsible for steering sales and marketing teams to drive results and profitability. His background includes more than 15 years of experience in sales, marketing, management, and operations in the research, consulting, software and technology industries. Mike has extensive experience in sales, marketing and management having worked for several early high-growth emerging businesses and has implemented technology systems to support various critical sales, finance, marketing and client service functions. He is especially skilled in organizing the sales and service strategy to fully support a company’s growth strategy. The concept of growth was an absolute to Mike and a motivator in starting AC Growth, in order to help organizations achieve research driven results. Most recently, Mike was the VP and General Manager of Field Operations at Bersin & Associates, a global analyst and consulting services firm focused on all areas of enterprise learning, talent management and talent acquisition. Tasked with leading the company’s global expansion, Mike led all sales operations worldwide. During Mike’s tenure, the company has grown into a multi-national firm, conducting business in over 45 countries with over 4,500 multi-national organizations. Mike started his career at MicroVideo Learning Systems in 1992, eventually holding a senior management position and leading all corporate sales before founding Dynamic Minds. Mike was CEO and Co-Founder of Dynamic Minds, a custom developer of software programs, working with clients like Goldman Sachs, Prentice Hall, McGraw Hill and Merrill Lynch. Also, Mike worked for Oddcast, a leading provider of customer experience and marketing solutions, where he held a senior management position leading the company into new markets across various industries. Mike also serves on the Advisory Board for Carbon Solutions America, an independent sustainability consulting and carbon management firm that specializes in the design and implementation of greenhouse reduction and sustainability plans as well as managing the generation of carbon and renewal energy and energy efficiency credits. Mike attended University of Phoenix, studying Business Administration and Finance. He has also completed executive training at the Chicago Graduate School of Business in Chicago, IL.

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