Corporate Universities

"Ten clear-cut goals and principles lie at the heart of the corporate university's power to galvanize employees into the kind of first-rate work force needed for success in the global marketplace."

"A coalition of managers is also needed to give the effort a minimum mass in its early stages."

"Given you've had three months to apply what you learned, have you had an opportunity to apply it?"

"It is impossible to communicate too much about the corporate university and its role within the business."

"Workers must adopt a learning to learn attitude that will make them vital individual contributors to their organization."

"The importance of the ability to communicate as a prerequisite for nearly all jobs is being increasingly understood by employers. Linked to this is a growing emphasis on the skill of listening."

"Action learning is training that takes the form of an actual business problem for teams of learners to solve together."

"The leadership development model has evolved tremendously over the past few decades and now participants expect to not just listen, but to work in teams, engage in case discussions, debate recommendations, and make presentations."

"Today, the ability to disseminate new material within a company overnight is phenomenal."

"A company with a 10 percent annual turnover rate, which is better than the average, will lose half of its experienced workers in just five years, even if its total head count stays the same."

"One of the reasons these best practice organizations are pushing towards accrediting their curricula is the need to offer employees portable credentials, in an era where lifetime job security is a thing of the past."