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By Reuben Tozman What will the learning-on-demand world require from an instructional designer? What skills does an instructional designer need to be successful?

By Mike Ryan, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Client Strategy, Madison Performance Group

By Greg Greunke, VP, Client Services & Operations, ThinkSmart Just before leaving the Walt Disney museum I caught this quote from Bill Anderson about perhaps the most innovative man who ever lived. “Nothing was too precious for Walt to change, even his own ideas.”

By Jennifer Lawrence, Founder, Cambridge Corporate Training

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By Michel Koopman, CEO, getAbstract.com Social networking within organizations has risen so quickly it is now standard practice. Smart companies use it to facilitate and encourage the internal exchange and social learning needed to remain competitive and profitable.

ByJustin Gold, Instructional Designer, InfoPro Learning, Inc. “Maintaining a culture that respects the contributions and dignity of all employees is vital to our organization and is everyone’s responsibility.”—Preventing Workplace Harassment for Employees

When Jim Sokolowski arrived at Savvis Communications in 2010 to begin as director of Global Learning and Leadership Development, the company was experiencing double-digit growth, along with a change in senior leadership that brought a renewed commitment to human capital as a strategic enabler and competitive advantage. The challenge was to effectively build the organization’s learning function from the ground up. Taking on such an effort brought up the question of where to start as there were plenty of obvious places that demanded attention.

Meeting the staffing challenges of the future is paramount for any organization. In the current business environment, we’ve heard a lot about unemployment and jobs not being available, but as the economy continues to recover, the next challenge for companies is going to be the widening talent gap and changing workforce demographics before a possible war for talent begins.

By Nick Sarillo