Four learning executives from Cardinal Health, Federated Department
Stores (now Macys), Holcim (US) and St. Lawrence Cement, and Orkin
offered insights to their peers at the Sharing@ LearnShare
conference in Toledo, Ohio.
They discussed talent management and the effect of a widening
skills gap, the challenges associated with managing several
generations in the workforce, the importance of demonstrating the
value of learning to senior leaders, and what educational
institutions should be doing to prepare new learning professionals
for success in the field.
One of our strategic initiatives is building manager capability,
and its an imperative, says Vince Eugenio, vice president,
enterprise learning solutions for Cardinal Health. Were working on
it in a couple of waysfirst by engaging the executives to be sure
they understand their role in leading their managers and
supervisors, and second by building manager capability. Our
previous training programs for managers were focused on building
technical capability, so now were trying to give managers and
supervisors the skill sets necessary to effectively lead and engage
their employees.