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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 ...
The Neuroscience Behind Behavioural Change
Intuitively we know that most of the time learning interventions fail to create real change and get the desired results. The brain does not like to ch ...
The Scariest Thing I’ve Seen All Year!
…No Action Planning! In the spirit of Halloween – I had to share this with you as the scariest thing I’ve experienced this year. A ...
The Key Findings from a Study into Australian Leaders
In the largest ever survey of leadership in Australia, the Centre for Workplace Leadership have surveyed around 8,000 individuals. The first of its ki ...
Learning from the BEST: Conference Highlights
Last week I headed to Washington DC to find out what makes the BEST different from the rest. The ATD (Association for Talent Development) BEST confere ...
The 10 Biggest Problems with Formal Learning, and How to Solve Them
When it comes to corporate learning there is a very old, very large elephant in the room. After a learning initiative there is often an impenetrable a ...
NEW Industry Report from Towards Maturity: Transforming Formal Learning
Last week Towards Maturity together with DPG unveiled their latest report: Transforming Formal Learning. What they revealed was so exciting I had to s ...
Embrace the Learning Revolution
When I look at Learning and Development sometimes I wonder if we are stuck in a time warp. Fads come and go. Technologies change. But the way people a ...
How To Create Accountability That Drives Transfer of Learning
To quote Gordon Tredgold, “You can’t delegate accountability”. Accountability is a hot topic. I can’t turn a corner without hearing the A ...
