Whitepapers

Tapping the Inner Teacher: Delivering High-Impact Learning through Leader-Led Development
Despite the clear advantages of leader-led development, many organizations have not established mechanisms for encouraging and supporting leaders as they take on teaching, coaching and other development responsibilities. Leaders may avoid taking on these roles due to lack of time, resources or their own lack of comfort with this role—without realizing that they could easily be imparting valuable informal learning to their teams every day. This paper will examine why and how leader-led development can harness the power of informal learning to provide meaningful learning experiences that have a positive impact on organizations, learners and leaders alike.

Develop Others: Grab-and-Go Resources to Promote Leader-Led Development
Leaders are uniquely positioned to provide the context and relevancy crucial to effective development. When leaders communicate an organization's priorities and values during each learning interaction, learning helps drive enhanced business results. This paper describes the new Develop Others capabilities offered in Harvard ManageMentor, the premier on-demand management resource for emerging and experienced leaders. Harvard ManageMentor is designed to support leader-led development by providing an array of materials to jump-start learning across the organization.

Scaling Collaborative Online Learning Across Your Organization: The Strategic Implementation of Social Learning Tools
Interacting with peers can be one of the most engaging and effective aspects of a successful learning experience. While peer interactions always have been central to good face-to-face classroom experiences, incorporating collaborative learning into traditional e-learning programs has been difficult. The challenge in creating more collaborative online learning programs is to understand the tools and technologies available, and how to select the social learning tools that you can implement to best promote collaborative learning at your organization. This paper will walk you through some key factors to consider as you refine your organization's approach to collaborative online learning, and also describes the collaborative capabilities incorporated in the design of the newest version of Harvard ManageMentor.

How to Connect with Virtual Leaders
Learning organizations are adding more virtual learning into their training and leadership development programs—and not just for the short term. A carefully designed and implemented virtual learning program offers ongoing learning opportunities that are highly relevant to participants' roles and closely linked to their organization's goals. This drives engagement and results for the business.