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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 ...
5 Essential Elements for Effective Action Planning
Anyone who has ever experienced corporate learning will have come across the idea of an action plan at the end of a training program. Unfortunately fo ...
The Learning Transfer Manifesto
I am loving the work of Gretchen Rubin, author of Better than Before, and host of the Happier podcast. Gretchen’s most recent blog talked about the ...
The Trials and Tribulations of Learning Measurement
Big data is big news. It is essential in today’s business environment to demonstrate an impact from training initiatives. The ROI Institute surveye ...
Don’t fall at the final hurdle
As the 2016 Rio Olympic Games get into full swing this week, I’ve been considering where in the Learning and Development industry we tend to fall a ...
Learning’s hottest couple
We try not to take learning transfer too seriously! So for a bit of fun today – after flicking through Hello magazine, I’m keen to introduce y ...
5 Ways to Effectively Manage a Virtual Team
As we navigate the ever changing landscape of a working world that is becoming increasingly virtual, how can we effectively create a sense of culture ...
The Power of Education
I love Desert Island Discs. Created in 1942, Desert Island Discs is a BBC Radio 4 show where a guest is invited to choose eight records they would tak ...
The Key Learning & Development Trends of 2016 [WEBINAR RECORDING]
We were eager to share our learning from the Association of Talent Development’s (ATD) annual conference in Denver, the Chief Learning Officer̵ ...
How To Make Employee Training The Key To Your Business Success
For decades professionals involved in training, from the designers to the facilitators to the participants to the managers and leaders, have been disa ...
8 Failing Transfer of Learning Solutions
Most people in the learning and development industry are fully aware of training’s dismal record in affecting behavioural change. There is growing r ...
5 signs you need to invest in learning transfer – without even changing your curriculum
When it comes to corporate learning there is a very old, very large elephant in the room. After a learning initiative there is often a Grand Canyon-si ...
Man versus Learning Machine
Not a day goes by in my life when learning technology isn’t raised in a conversation. But how far can technology really go? I read a very intere ...
Want to see performance transformation from your training?
I was excited to collaborate with John Tomlinson from Trainer Tools on a podcast recently. You can listen to the podcast here. We talked about cr ...
My Top 5 Insights From ATD 2016
I’ve spent this week at the Association for Talent Development’s (ATD) 2016 Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado (USA). It has been a fa ...
21 Ways to Make Or Break A Habit
A month ago I attended the CLO Symposium in Florida, USA. One of the highlights for me was attending American author, blogger and speaker Gretchen Rub ...
Is “change” the future of learning?
Traditionally, a key function of learning in organisations was to create and present relevant and interesting content to enable the learner to learn. ...
