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

The other day I had the real pleasure of catching up  with June Boyle, HR Director for Organisational Effectiveness at Lloyds Banking Group. June has an amazing track record and really deep experience and knowledge fromRead more

Last year Owen and I attended the ASTD Conference in Chicago. Our reasons for going were to deepen our professional knowledge and to start to explore the US market. As an event it felt very differentRead more

Today our new iPhone app, GoodPractice Top Tips for Managers, was approved to go into Apple’s App Store. It’s been an interesting process getting from “we should do an iPhone app” through to actually delivering itRead more

Last week the New York Times published an article about Google’s approach to developing their managers. Code-named ‘Project Oxygen’, Google’s approach was what you might expect from such a data driven organisation. First, they gathered asRead more