Celebrating 10 Years of Blogging – Our Top 10 Blog Posts

We recently added an archiving list to our blog page and – who would believe it – we have been blogging consistently for 10 years! What a reason to celebrate! We’ve shared over 267 articles and some of them are just too good not to revisit. So in celebration, we list here our top 10 blog posts throughout the decade. Enjoy!

1. The Top 10 Blogs in Learning & Development To Follow

The number of thought leaders and organisations providing top-notch content on learning and development, talent management and HR is astonishing and continues to grow. Whilst there are so many great blogs out there, I wanted to share my top 10 blogs in Learning & Development that I would recommend anyone in the industry follows.

2. 5 TED Talks on Learning Transfer Everyone Should Watch

TED Talks are a great source of inspiration. In this blog post we list 5 TED Talks on Learning Transfer that everyone should watch that link to the principles of behavioural change.

3. 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 for most training participants, this tends to be experienced as an afterthought at the end of the day, often with evaluation questions on the same document.

4. The Top 6 Learning, Development and HR Podcasts

Podcasting has taken the world by storm in recent years. On the commute to work or folding laundry, we can’t get enough of listening in to our favourite podcasts. We’ve been toying with the idea of starting our own learning transfer podcast, but in the meantime, there are so many great podcasts out there. Here’s my top 6 on learning, development and HR.

5. The 10 Best Learning Quotes Ever

My team and I share a quote to inspire us each and every day. This got me thinking about the best learning quotes around.

6. 6 Reflection Tools to Boost Your Learning

Researchers Stefano, Gino, Pisano & Staats (2014) have found reflection to be a powerful component of learning. Their results confirm that reflecting on learning and experience is in fact far more influential than learning from experience. Clearly there is real synergy between Jacob Barnett’s learning ideals and those coming out of Harvard Business School.

7. 7 Reasons Why Most Attempts To Create A Coaching Culture Fail

Much has been written in the past decade on the importance of creating a coaching culture. Forbes suggests that a coaching culture can increase engagement, retention and improve overall morale, as well as create greater self-awareness and more effective communication, all of which supports team cohesion and alignment.

8. 5 Learning Technologies 2019 Videos Everyone Should Watch

I’m so impressed with the generosity of our industry and the quality of free online learning resources that are available for us as learning and development professionals. As many of you know, I was lucky enough to attend Learning Technologies UK in February this year, and I’m pleased to share that videos from the conference are now up online, fully accessible to the whole of our learning community.

9. The 6 Key Learning & Development Trends for 2019

As we’ve seen trending for a while now, flexibility, adaptability and embracing change will see organisations thrive. Learning professionals and teams need to be focusing on their own development so that they are best placed to adapt to and embrace the changing, complex business environment.

10. Insights for Impact: New Learning Transfer Research [Infographic]

Businesses globally have grappled to understand how best to increase the performance of their workforce in order to improve productivity, efficiency and engagement. As an industry we have become very good at delivering content to the right person, at the right time, in a multitude of ways. But the problem of learning transfer still exists. It is widely recognised that only around 10-20% of any new skills and behaviours are applied back in the workplace.

I’m heading across to the HR Techfest in July – can you join me? Be part of New Zealand’s most exciting and progressive gathering of HR leaders, difference-makers and disruptors as they celebrate the talent, technology and ideas transforming the future of work. 

 

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Emma Weber is a recognised authority on the transfer of learning. As CEO of Lever – Transfer of Learning, she has helped companies such as Telstra, Oracle and BMW deliver and measure tangible business results from learning. Emma has also been a guest speaker at learning effectiveness conferences worldwide and authored the hugely successful book Turning Learning into Action. Much more detail around the issues and solutions examined in this article are available in the book – feel free to download a chapter.