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What CEOs Really Think About the Success of Learning and Development
Unfortunately, many CEOs do not see learning and development as an area that is critical to the success of the business. There are very few organisati ...
Holidays and Behavioural Change – a Bonus or a Distraction?
I’m torn as to whether the holiday season helps or hinders behavioural change. On one hand, if someone is successfully implementing behavioural chan ...
Do You Recognise the 7 Early Warning Signs of Training Failure?
If we can anticipate the 7 early warning signs of training failure, we can actually take some action to prevent these failings, and get a much better ...
Learning Transfer and Reflection Tips
This is a video about learning transfer and reflection, and what you need to know to make it work for you. For a transcript of the video, click here ...
Fascinating New Research On Brain Plasticity – What It Means For Learning
Last week Matthew Taylor did a 30 minute broadcast on BBC Radio 4; a segment from a 3-part series on Brain Culture: Neuroscience and Society. In this ...
Improvement Starts with Awareness: Are you Improving?
Training or learning is a quest for improvement. Even a gold medal winner in a race still strives for continuous improvement so that they can win agai ...
Educational Flipping in SMH – What Does This Mean For Us?
Today an article was printed in the Sydney Morning Herald by Andrew Stevenson (Education Editor) called ‘Technology brings the classroom back ho ...
Secrets of Successful Action Planning
I’ve recorded a new video, looking at the Secrets to Successful Action Planning. You can download your free Action Plan here. For a transcript o ...
The Myth of the Manager’s Role in Learning
I had the good fortune recently to interview Roy Pollock, a learning transfer expert based in the US. From the interview we have created an article fo ...
Interviewing Learning Transfer world expert Roy Hill
I had the opportunity recently to interview Roy Hill, co-author of ‘The 6 Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning’ – a great read! The ...
7 novel ways to improve learning transfer using your Smartphone!
Gone are the days of the paper dairy and watch – which is great news for those looking to improve learning transfer levels after a training cour ...
Watch my Video ‘Secrets of Successful Action Planning’
Secrets of Successful Action Planning ...
Book Review: Beyond Learning Objectives – Develop Measurable Objectives that Link to the Bottom Line
I love the work of Jack and Patricia Phillips. Check out more about their work at www.roiinstitute.net. They have written over 30 books on ROI and Mea ...
Webinars the way forward for learning in your comfort zone?
I know it’s been a while! I’ll be sending you a full update as to what I have been up to but meanwhile this comment from the Mailchimp blo ...
Motivational Myths that will Surprise You
In my work I find intention is not the problem, it’s generating the motivation to follow through. You’ve probably experienced it yourself; all fir ...
About my Mentor, Vivat outside of the Corporate Arena
I’m excited to report that for the first time this year Vivat® has been operating outside the corporate arena. We have been supporting entrepreneur ...
Photos from our Adventure
Emma and Sacha getting out of the comfort zone at Climbfit, St Leonards. December 2009 ...
Lessons from Out of the Comfort Zone: Ugly truths about TLA!
The problem (or opportunity!) with being a Turning Learning into Action (TLA) expert is you have to walk the talk and actually take action after atten ...
Where I ‘should’ plug our services…
“So this is the bit where I really should plug our services, but it’s Christmas and what I want to say is a huge thank you to all our clients ...
Are you talking to me?
I often say to clients that Turning Learning into Action is more about having a conversation with yourself to foster deep internal reflection than a d ...
