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Classroom Learning: In or Out?
The rise in social media and explosion of open source material has drastically changed the face of learning as we know it. We have seen more pedagogic ...
The Top 10 Blogs in Learning & Development To Follow
The number of thought leaders and organisations providing top notch content on learning & development, talent management and HR is astonishing and ...
Is HBR Really Talking About Learning Transfer?
Harvard Business Review have been talking about the importance of reflection again, and I wondered if really they had been looking under the hood of o ...
Creating engaging learning content – the end goal or the start line?
A key function of learning in organisations has long been to create and present relevant and interesting content to enable the learner to learn. With ...
LIW: Democratising Leadership in Business First Magazine
Thrilled to see the LIW perspective on leadership getting coverage in Business First Magazine. The article features an interview with Pia Lee, CEO o ...
5 Ways to Get More Out of Attending Conferences
For those of us in any industry lucky enough to experience top notch conference events – although the networking may be great, we must remember ...
Kineo’s Learning Insights: NEW L&D Industry Report
It was great to see the latest Kineo L&D report land in my inbox a few weeks back; “Learning Insights 2017: Progress with purpose”. Imagine my ...
The Top 5 Things I Learnt at the World HRD Congress
The 25th World HRD Congress in Mumbai has been beyond fascinating! The conference covers all manners of Human Resource Development from employee eng ...
NEW L&D Industry Report from Towards Maturity: Unlocking Potential
It was fantastic to attend the Learning Technologies conference in London last week for the first time ever. Check out my vlog last week on my key hig ...
My Top Highlights from Learning Technologies 2017
What an epic two days at the Learning Technologies conference in London. With more than 7,500 visitors, 150 free L&D seminars, and 250 exhibitor ...
How to close the gap towards desired learning performance
“Dangling data” and “closing the gap”. Two interesting concepts I came across in an article considering performance feedback ...
How to design learning for behavioural change
Transfer of learning… Retention… Embedding… Sustaining… Reinforcement… Effectiveness. We all use many different terms to ...
The Top Learning & HR Conferences to Attend in 2017
Keen to keep track of the latest developments in learning & HR? Conferences are the place to be. Learning and connecting with the thought leade ...
The 10 Most Popular Blogs of 2016
We’ve been reflecting and celebrating the successes of 2016 this week, so wanted to re-share our most successful blogs of the year. Grab a minc ...
The Anatomy of Leadership Development That Gets Awards
Effective leadership is crucial for any organisation. Recent research from the Centre for Workplace Leadership found that good leadership positively ...
5 Tips from McKinsey for Change or Transformation in Organisations
The latest McKinsey Quarterly caught my eye recently, as authors Bucy, Hall and Yakola looked into how transformation in organisations becomes ever m ...
Getting Smart with Learning Transfer to Change Society
Can you imagine my surprise and delight as I sat in a modest meeting room in the hot, humid back streets of Siam Reap, Cambodia, being talked through ...
The Enormity of Change in Learning, as Seen at Learning 2016
Regular readers of my blog will know I love the work of Elliott Masie. He held the annual Learning 2016 conference a few weeks back. The conference ai ...
Trump, Brexit, and what they mean for leadership
There have been some curveballs in 2016 that’s for sure. The world is still grasping with Donald Trump’s shock presidential win over Hillary Clint ...
A Complete Guide to Learning Through Reflection
Many people in Learning & Development are beginning to recognise that reflection is at the heart of great learning. Back in the Eighties, research ...
