Just put out a press release noting the continued gain in confidence of learning executives. For the second quarter in a row, LXs are optimistic about continued growth in the learning function. All the info is in the third quarter Learning Executives Confidence Index. You can read the press release here. Or read the full report here.

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January's LX Briefing is counting the cash with two articles on surviving and thriving in today's economy.

As Tony Bingham says in an Editorial in LX, "One of the toughest challenges of the current economic crisis is that companies must act even when they don’t know what is coming next or how long recovery will take. But one fact is certain: old ways of doing things are not coming back." See page 2 of LX briefing to read the entire Editorial.

Then on page 7, Paul Harris explores the ways in which training execs and suppliers are ready and waiting to launch innovative cost-saving initiatives in the article "What Recession?

Download January's LX Briefing

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Categories: The Economy

LXCI December 2008: The ASTD Learning Executives Confidence Index (LXCI) for December 2008 was 52.1 based on responses from 115 LXs to an online invitation-only survey, demonstrating that collectively LXs expect their learning functions to remain the same or marginally improve over the next six months (for those unfamiliar with the LXCI, a detailed explanation appears at the end of this report). The outlook for LXs’ own organizational performance has declined, with only 39% reporting their industry will remain the same or improve over the next six months, down from 52% in November. Those LXs who anticipate their own organization to have moderately to substantially worse profits in 12 months compared to today had an LXCI of 33.1, while those who expect their organization’s profits to be moderately to substantially better had an LXCI of 80.3.

(Read the entire LXCI article.)

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Categories: The Economy