Will L&D take this once in a generation opportunity?
July 14th, 2010
The deep, dark secret is that training is regarded by many as second-rate, full of odd people delivering oddball stuff using outdated methods.’ So says Donald Clark in his blog
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Can L&D and HR Work Well Together?
July 6th, 2010
Something I have been considering recently is the working relationship between L&D and HR. As an L&D professional, my own experiences of this have varied considerably
I’m very proud of our new Eden Tree
June 21st, 2010
Ten years ago I had lunch with Margaret Ford and she outlined a new business [...]
Talent and development, critical to the delivery of strategy objectives at Bupa
June 16th, 2010
Bupa have a fundamental belief that it is people who make things happen as they provide the capability to deliver strategy objectives. As such talent management and development are key the future of the organisation. I caught up with Keith Stopforth Head of Talent and Development at Bupa’s UK and North America Division to find out more.
Visa going for Gold in 2012
June 7th, 2010
Visa Europe saw the Investors in People standard as a way to drive business improvement. In July 2009 they achieved their first award. We talked to Mark Latteman to find out what the results had been and why they were now aiming for gold in 2012?
ASTD Chicago – Learning Supersized!
June 2nd, 2010
I attended the ASTD conference in Chicago in May and it was great to be surrounded by so many people involved in learning. Apart from the sheer size of the event and the number of big name speakers who were all very accessible, the other things that caught my eye was the international aspect of the event with delegations from all over the world.
Future of workplace learning in 2015
May 11th, 2010
Perhaps in 2015 it will be as easy as Trinity finds it in the Matrix [...]
Neville Pritchard talks about ASTD, the future of L&D and measurement.
April 26th, 2010
A few days ago I had a great conversation with Neville Pritchard where he talked [...]
User Experience: Implementation, Testing and Measurement
April 20th, 2010
Yesterday, I wrote about the all important design phase of the project to re-invent the [...]
User Experience: Design
April 19th, 2010
Following on from Friday’s post about the planning and requirements phase of our project to [...]
User Experience: Planning and Requirements
April 16th, 2010
Yesterday, I mentioned that we’ve recently completed a project to re-invent the look, feel and [...]
Re-inventing the GoodPractice User Experience
April 15th, 2010
Our toolkits are evolving and we want to share the process of how we went about changing our user experience.
Bright future despite Easter snow
April 1st, 2010
There’s a real buzz in the office as the team are busy finishing testing the new web platform which we will be introducing later this month. It’s been built based on extensive research with leaders and managers about what they value and use and it will provide us with a step change in what we can offer clients
In conversation with Jay Cross about Learning and Performance
March 16th, 2010
Last week I had the great pleasure to record a video Skype conversation with Jay Cross where we discussed our recent survey on ‘How Managers Learn’, learning, informal learning and performance.
Open Content in workplace learning
March 8th, 2010
Tony Karrer asks in the March Big Question; ‘How do we leverage open content in [...]
Combating the snake oil – don’t be a sucker
March 4th, 2010
Snake oil salemen have been around a long-time and as P T Barnum noted “There’s a sucker born every minute” so it’s our responsibility to be able to spot the snake oil salesman before you buy or implement anything that is being sold to help with informal or social learning.
Learning theory or performance theory
February 23rd, 2010
I’ve been reading some really good, thought provoking blogs today about learning and learning theory.
Learning styles: it’s a bit more complicated than that
February 16th, 2010
Ah, learning styles. You do have a way of getting under people’s skins.
The Washington Post [...]
Learning myths and opportunity
February 12th, 2010
Myths about learning are both a curse and an opportunity for the learning profession.
Planning to implement informal learning?
February 2nd, 2010
The set up up was perfect! I was at one of the seminars at Learning [...]
How do managers actually learn?
January 21st, 2010
We’ve spent the last couple of weeks writing and developing new content which we’re very [...]
Challenge for the next decade: Two Cultures in Learning and Development
December 29th, 2009
Over the last few years, I’ve become acutely aware of the growing development of two [...]
Should an LMS be the only route to learning?
December 9th, 2009
We are having a number of interesting discussions with clients about their Learning Management System [...]
Extraordinary Groups – video with Geoff Bellman
November 30th, 2009
If I was to form a personal virtual Board of advisers then Geoff Bellman would be one of the first people appointed. He has a wisdom and an insight that is rare to find and this shines through in his new book, ‘Extraordinary Groups’…
Professional content – what’s it good for?
November 26th, 2009
Rupert Murdoch is out to change the internet and he’s putting professional content at the [...]
