In the last few months we have read more and more about the global economic slowdown.   Jim Cramer, the Wall Street pundit, wrote in today’s New York Magazine, that he has never seen things as dismal as they are on Wall Street.   Today the State of California announced a 5. 7% unemployment rate, an increase of almost 12% over last month.   And I have noticed a fairly steady increase in HR and L&D leaders now looking around for work.
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This month we are launching The High-Impact Learning Organization, a research study which has been more than three years in development. During this time we have interviewed hundreds of corporate HR and training leaders and reviewed in-depth trends of more than 780 global organizations. Audio Overview of this research: click here. As I have been discussing this research with our research members, I realize that one of the most profound changes that is taking place in corporate learning and development is the need for a new set of disciplines, a new set of skills and competencies. The traditional "instructional design, development, and delivery" skills, while still important, are fading into the background.
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