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ATD 2015 Learning Trends

  What an amazing few days at the Association for Talent Development (ATD) International Conference in Orlando, Florida! Check out my video tease ...

The Manager’s Role in Learning

Learnings from the AITD 2015 Conference I literally dived in and out of the AITD annual national conference yesterday at Sydney’s Technology Park. A ...

An Easy Method to Showcase Training Results

  It is crucial that learning initiatives and training programs are creating a return on investment. So how can we create this return? And how do ...

Personalisation in Learning

  I just love Elliott Masie’s work and his passion for learning. Are any of my readers heading to his conference in November? Steve Wozniak is ...

The Road to Learning Transfer

  We have given our beloved learning transfer roadmap a well deserved makeover and wanted to share it with you. We use the roadmap as a resource ...

Mind Tools Interview: How To Transfer Learning to the Workplace

  “What’s the point of running training programs? That may seem like a dumb question but, often, the purpose of corporate training – bo ...

Escape the Learning Time Warp & Embrace the Revolution!

When I look at Learning and Development I sometimes wonder if we are stuck in a time warp. Let me explain. Fads come and go. Technologies change. But ...

9 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 and there is a grow ...

CEO Fights Back: Emma Weber’s Response to McKinsey

A response from Emma Weber (CEO & Founder of Lever – Transfer of Learning) to the McKinsey Quarterly article ‘Why leadership-development progr ...

The benefits of being different

I’ve been reflecting on the key to success in the transfer of learning and what makes us different. I feel able to comment having clocked up over 30 ...
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What Collaboration Means For Learning Transfer

Last month I attended a Google Deloitte presentation in Sydney on the Collaborative Economy. I love visiting the Google Headquarters – just stepping ...

From Ticking the Box to Out of the Box

I was thrilled to chair Konnect’s learning symposium last month, it was a great opportunity to learn from others in the field of learning and be ins ...

7 Quotes to get you over the most common transfer of learning hurdles

I love a good quote. And so many quotes that I read these days can be equated to messages about learning transfer – and the steps to achieving it su ...

Why I support Club Kidpreneur – and that little slice of special

Some kids at school just aren’t any good at or interested in sports or music.  Some hate performing in front of everyone, being the star of the ...

The false premise of reinforcement

re|inforce|ment         1.     The action or process of reinforcing or strengthening         1.1   The process of encouraging or establish ...

Another winning conference from the ASTD

I don’t know about you, but I am in the thick of conference season, on all sides of the globe. I have just returned from a great time at the ASTD co ...

BRAVO McKINSEY…. and there’s more!

Well done on McKinsey for highlighting the challenge of failing leadership development programs in the first edition of McKinsey Quarterly 2014. Havin ...

A Learning Transfer Dilemma

It’s not often I find myself in a Learning Transfer dilemma. Having worked in the field for almost 10 years I have pretty clear ideas of what wo ...

What is our secret weapon in the transfer of learning battle?

Before the big reveal, let me start by clarifying what ‘the transfer of learning battle’ is exactly. Quite simply, it’s the challenge of transfe ...

Why am I passionate about Learning Transfer? – Lessons from an African safari.

I was on a conference call with the US last week speaking to a Learning and Development professional that had held senior L & D positions at Disne ...