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CIPD Learning and Development Show

It’s Day 2 of the CIPD Learning and Development Show in Olympia London and there’s been some great sessions today. As I write this I’m sat in the session on delivering engaging eLearning through Virtual Classroom

CIPD Learning and Development Show

Designing Innovative Learning and Development Initiatives

Thursday 1st May LIVE TWEETS FROM THE L&D SHOW FROM 3.30pm

My last seminar booked at the CIPD L&D Show 2014 looks at designing innovative learning and deve

CIPD Learning and Development Show

Embedding Social Media for Collaborative Learning

Thursday 1st May at the L&D Show

Social Media.  it's all out there and it's presence isn't going to go away. In fact many say, it's going to become an even bigger p

CIPD Learning and Development Show

How do you become a more effective L&D Professional

This is a topic that we should all be following. There's never a finish line to the question "How do you become a more effective L&D Professional". As the

CIPD Learning and Development Show

Collaborative Learning through MOOC's

Wednesday 30th April 11:15am at CIPD L&D Show 2014

Quite looking forward to the session this Wednesday at the L&D Show on Collaborative Learning through MOOC's.  Now the daft

In my last blog alter egos I started to share some personal traits and experiences that led me in to the world of developing communities to support learning. It wasn’t an overnight thing and it’s still very much work in  progress and I’m learning eac

Online Learning versus Face to Face Learning

Would you rather listen to this article?  You can do so by clicking here.

Online learning versus face to face learning is an ongoing debate that's been taking place for years.  Both seem to exist in organ

Hi All,

As a bit of fun, have you considered a small budget for voiceover training?  I had purposely considered this to help me with my online learning delivery skills, but actually, it's been of massive benefit in my face to face delivery too.

So t

I have a confession to make…yesterday I made a mistake. Yep, there I said it.  I made a mistake.  It wasn’t a big one or massively important in the grand scheme of things but it was embarrassing as it was picked up by a Head of Service (who was ver

This blog, is the fourth and final one on the creative competencies - SURROUNDINGS. How do you make your surroundings more conducive to being creative?

I suppose we should start with what we mean by surroundings:

• Your workspace
• Your thinking space
• The pe

From the age of 5 until round about 60 we become less creative, according to research. So is this inevitable or is there something we can do about it?

Dr. Robert Epstein talked about the four creative competences and even has suggested that we can imp

Evening All (or morning depending on what business you work in!)

I'd love the views of you good HR and HRD people on the subject of live online learning.  

What's your views on it all?

Earlier this year I was lucky enough to go to America for three weeks. A fantastic holiday of a life-time where I visited my sister Lucy in Minnesota for a week before heading down to the sunshine state of Florida for some Disney mayhem.

There was a

The Accelerated Learning Handbook Dave Meier and it's link to Knowledge Management

I'm just doing some work on Knowledge Management (what else to be doing on a Sunday you might ask!) and it's been quite good. 

But randomly, in the middle of this, Exerc

OK so perhaps the title should be “Assumed Constraints and Elephant Thinking” but lets go with it as it stands and see what you think at the end.

I’ve been reflecting a lot recently prompted by a rather good post you can read here called - can we be

A few weeks ago, we looked at the pros and cons of choosing an eLearning solution when choosing training. One of the considerations we mentioned was whether or not you were going to provide the equipment, or implement a BYOD system. We feel that this

In a comment to Niklas Angmyr’s post on the subject of learning, corporate learning and the article Making Corporate Learning work by Shlomo Ben-Hur  and Nik Kenley, Niklas get one of the authors to comment, namely Nik Kenley, and a very interesting

Training just like every other job is becoming more and more supplemented by developing technologies. Although e-Learning and m-Learning is grabbing all the headlines in Learning and Development as being the future – there are a lot more forms of tec

In my last blog, I talked about my personal introduction to the world of evaluation with the New World Kirkpatrick Model. Having learnt all about the Four Levels Model and how to effectively apply this theory to display return on expectations, I was