Last week on the 16th May I attended my 2nd Unconference in as many weeks. The latest of these events was organised by the Connect HR community and it was entitled "The Power of a Socially Engaged Organisation".
I've only recently met some of the me
Well, its been a while since my last blog...Happy New Year. I was very excited to learn that I passed my first assignment from workshop 1, a huge relief and a lovely way to start the Christmas hols. I have been working through my second assignment
So there I was, driving to Wigan in the Northwest of England at 7am on a cold and damp Saturday morning, full of excitement and anticipation and if I'm honest a little bit anxious. My destination was Three Sisters Race Circuit and I was heading for a
Earlier this week the Gloucestershire branch of the CIPD hosted an event with Sarah Bryant, the CIPD's HR Capability Project Coordinator. It is Sarah's job to keep the Map up to date, translate it into a living document for us & get the message out t
The fix I am of course referring to is the good old prefix, more specifically the prefix used to identify types of learning delivery methods. The most notorious being the ‘e’ in e-learning and more recently the ‘m’ in m-learning.
There has been de
Sat in a meeting room somewhere in Manchester my quarterly review was drawing to a close. It had been a good conversation, a chance to reflect on the last few months, the trials and tribulations of a large HR separation programme; but also of course
I began my career as a Learning Professional in 2006 and studied my Certificate in
Training Practice (CiTP) shortly after joining an in-house training team. Within the
first 6 months I was asked to support an experienced member of the team complete
Does recruitment sometimes feel like an episode of the X Factor? Job applicants get a moment to shine with their CV, having to create enough of an impression in that moment that they are then invited to perform in front of a panel of judges. The vast
The DPG community is a community of practice, a shared space for professionals with an interest in Learning and Development & HR to come together and share their experiences, ideas and good practice.
It's a collaborative and social space that suppor
I'm a big believer in the power of conversation and its importance in sharing ideas, connecting people and supporting the learning process. This conversation has traditionally taken place face to face or over the telephone but with the meteoric ris
I’ve been reading with interest recent articles and blog posts proclaiming that social practices won’t work in the enterprise. Posts such as ‘You ready to fail at social networking’ and the excellent post from Jeevan Joshi ’4 reasons why employe
Hi everyone
I want to take the opportunity to explain who I am and my role within DPG. I'm part of the DPG team and I am responsible for Community Management and Online Learning. I'm here to work and support the facilitators and yourselves in us
Sometimes you just need a Big Picture think and see where others are with their thinking. Better still if this is applied to a business which makes more sense- applied and therefore easier to see how you could learn and benefit from the course.
Chatti
There has been a lot of discussion in the HR press over recent weeks about whether HR is recruiting the right people and indeed whether current recruits to the profession are up to the job. The recent “Raising the bar in HR recruitment” report was co
Well, feeling very studious:). Have finished 2.5 hours of study on a very rainy Sunday morning in the office. I find being out of the house much easier, far less to distract me.
I have managed to finish chapter 1 of developing myself as an effective
Firstly so glad my course started on the 29th October and not the 30th! All trains were cancelled on the morning of the 30th between Didcot and Reading due to an incident on the line. So, leaving with plenty of time on my side at 06:40am on the 29t
The picture below shows my artistic scribblings on a table cloth from the (now not so) recent Connect HR Unconference “The power of a social engaged organisation“.
We were asked to write things down for the afternoon sessions that would give us some
It's a very exciting time for DPG as we start to use our online community to support our CIPD programmes from September. This network is a community of practice (CoP) for Learning & HR Professionals, but what exactly is a CoP?
A Community of Pract
I was really pleased and proud to be asked by @Kategraham23 to be part of the panel on the recent eLearning Network webinar entitled Ten things you always wanted to know about live online learning but were afraid to ask!
I was in illustrious compa
