Blogs

This Thursday, from 7.45pm UK Time is the August broadcast of Learning Now TV, a global TV channel with content dedicated to Learning and Development. If you're not yet signed up to Learning Now TV, it's free to do so and you'll get details of how to

It was late into last night, almost the hours of today, when I finally turned off the digital learning production here. I haven’t been a 9-5 type guy for years and if creativity is flowing, who am I to stop it in its tracks?

It was around 8pm, just a

Our friends over at Unum have put together a fantastic report on The Future of Employee Benefits.

Following on from The Future Workplace report, which explored key employee trends, The Future of Employee Benefits report looks at how these will affect

Learning by doing, often referred to as "experiential" learning, is so incredibly powerful. This heart-warming and beautiful story reminds me of why this works so well....

Holidays are great but they do mean a bit of extra work in advance – finishing projects, tying up loose ends, briefing colleagues… To help you enjoy your holiday, knowing that everything will tick over smoothly in your absence, we have put together a

Ei4Change have a series of free interactive quizzes to give you some insights into your

• emotional intelligence
• independence
• emotional awareness

All these quizzes only take a few minutes to complete and are free.  They can be found at htt

Hi all,

Thanks to all that attended the webinar last week with Laura Overton from Towards Maturity. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and thanks to those that attended.

As promised here are the resources from the webinar - you can watch the f

This is the 3rd in my series of 5 easy brain tips for engaging learners from my session at the CIPD NAP conference in June 2015. 

UM is for "Use Metaphor". Emotions can run high during any change programme and a workshop can easily turn it into a wh

The BBC posted an article today on how middle class parents are creating a 'glass floor' for their children, by using their influence to give them the skills and career boost to help them become higher earners. The article, at  Glass Floor Protecting

The working environment is important for many reasons, not only can it impact upon employee well-being, but it can also affect productivity and job satisfaction. This is something that a large number of businesses have picked up on and as such, offic

Hi everyone,

This Friday (24th July at 1pm) we have joined forces with Towards Maturity to deliver a FREE 1 hour webinar with Laura Overton (Towards Maturity MD) who will share their findings from the latest Towards Maturity benchmark reports. The da

 This is the second of my series of blogs from a session I ran at the CIPD NAP conference. The five tips can be remembered by using the mnemonic CRUMMSS.

• C - choice - last weeks blog
• R - Rewards - this weeks blog
• UM - Use metaphors
• MS - Microskills

Today marks the 50th Anniversary of Training Journal, one of the leading publications in the Learning and Development industry.

I'm here at the event in London and got chance to do a couple of interviews and the links are below.

Debbie Carter is the

Today marks the DPG community's 3rd birthday! We're celebrating the whole week up to Friday 17th with fantastic competitions and birthday cake!

Starting today, we're going to be hiding 3 different birthday cakes somewhere on the DPG community and als

I'm a fond fan of posting blogs here on the DPG Community, but I'm always amazed at how much great content there is already on here. Today I was looking for some tips for successful studying. I hopped onto the Community and using the Search bar, foun

Our friends over at Unum have released a fantastic infographic on the secret to employee motivation. Working in partnership with AXA PPP healthcare, well-being in the workplace is really important to us.

We know that employee wellbeing is rocketing

Came across this whitepaper from Quantum Workplace - this research and trends are now in their 5th year and whilst the data is from the US it is still worth sharing some of the findings within this Community. 

• Top-performing organisations know that

This week, adult learners and learning providers across England are celebrating lifelong learning during Adult Learners' Week 2015, which includes awards ceremonies, taster events and a Festival of Learning.

We have been supporting this initiative b