Our iPhone app has been on the iTunes App Store for over three months now. As we approach 10,000 downloads, and rack up thousands of user sessions every week, it seemed a good time to share aRead more

Now we come to the the ultimate reason for my three posts about evaluation in L&D (see also parts one and two for more details). To recommend the Success Case Method. I first came across itRead more

It’s not often I feel compelled to single out a non-L&D book and recommend it to my peers, but every now and then someone pulls together different strands of thought that seem to be floating aroundRead more

This is the second in a series of three posts about evaluating learning and development interventions. In the first part, I looked at the utility (or not) of Kirkpatrick’s four levels. In this post, I’ll examineRead more

In various forums and conversations over the years, I’ve seen or heard the same topic come up again and again: evaluation. So, I decided to pull together the thoughts I’ve shared over time and have aRead more

Last week as part of a presentation on ‘How managers learn’ I shared this video that the team at GoodPractice had made about ‘the five moments of learning need’ as set out by Conrad Gottfredson and BobRead more

Science is starting to understand the brain and through the neuroscience of the brain, how it works. Rock’s key gripe with the learning and HR community is that we do not follow the evidence and the science to select our leaders better, create effective work environments or help leaders manage better. Continue reading →

Last year, a couple of us from Eden Tree and GoodPractice attended the ASTD’s (ICE) in Chicago (you can read our CEO Peter Casebow’s thoughts about that conference over at the GoodPractice blog). We got so muchRead more

What did you do? Active questions encourage people to think about their responsibility. Continue reading →

Social learning seems to be the theme of the moment and for some it might appear to be a fad, but as Tony Bingham and Marcia Connor point out in their book, ‘The New Social Learning: ARead more