Yesterday saw over 60 enlightened souls come together to attend the first event of it's kind in Manchester if not in CIPD history.
The Social HR Conference / Unconference at Old Trafford Cricket Ground.
This conference was different in so many way
Yesterday saw over 60 enlightened souls come together to attend the first event of it's kind in Manchester if not in CIPD history.
The Social HR Conference / Unconference at Old Trafford Cricket Ground.
This conference was different in so many way
Our friends over at People Alchemy are running a Kindle promotion on two of Paul's Matthews highly acclaimed books.
This is a great chance to download the Kindle Version of both books for FREE
This promotion is running from today until Sunday 19th
As students with DPG you're entitled to an NUS card that provides some fantastic savings and discounts.
You can find out more about how to get your NUS card here
There are two campaigns running right now which you may be able to take advantage of,
Hi everyone,
Following our first 'mentor scheme' we were able to match over 20 people with a mentor. With our latest cohorts getting underway we're looking to see if we can do the same again. We created a DPG Mentoring Group with some hints & tips an
This post was recently featured in Training Zone as part of a 3 part series focusing on evaluation.
A long long time ago
When the Kirkpatrick Model was established back in 1954, it was instantly accepted as the industry standard approach to training
The World of Learning Conference and Exhibition opens next week! If you haven’t already, then register here – it only takes a moment and will allow you access to THE L&D and HR event of the year!
Thousands of people working in t
During the past year I have been actively co-operating with foreign (mainly British) HR professionals and I must admit that whilst communicating with them I have heard less and less the term of “HR Manager” being used and more professionals of the fi
Have you ever experienced that feeling of accomplishment when you know just where you’re going in your career?
If you’ve read my last blog, you would know I attended the mysterious Apprenticeship Ambassador Meeting; another step upwards in my career
The biggest driver of them all to get success, change and impact in your organization out of a training event is to have your participant and their manager do pre-training preparation and post-training follow-up. As described in research by Robert O.
Anyone who knows me, or has been on one of my workshops, knows I am a self-confessed anorak when it comes to setting objectives. To let you know how much of an anorak I am, I have put together a very short video on objective setting - in it I use som
Conferences.
Can be expensive.
You sign up to a timetable. You go and listen to a "sage on the stage" - sometimes a brilliant one - and you take notes, nod... frown a bit that their version of a story sounds a bit easy, but if you are anything like m
There are sometimes when you plan for things to happen in a training workshop and they do. Other times you don't plan and something quite unexpected happens. A few weeks ago, I was running a Learning Loop workshop for an organisation in York.
The pla
Knowledge hoarding is one of the principle issues of many modern day companies’ employees and such behavior is “backed up” by endless excuses from lack of time to the mentality of “what shall I get for it in return?”. The notion of not sharing knowl
Hi everyone,
As the community has changed and introduced a number of different areas and forums you can select what notifications you get and what content you get them from.
Probably most important are notifications from your groups so when your fa
On New Years day I will be jumping in a tuk tuk at the start of a 3000km journey travelling the length of India!! We have no set route, no back up and no way of knowing if we will make it!
Along the way we will be visiting communities that have no a
(aka: Why I think if you work in L&D/OD you should be active on Social Media.)
So I’ve been thinking.
I’ve been in few conversations of late with folk who work in organisations and whose job seems to be about delivering/ improving people development
In true DPG style we are constantly developing to improve the quality of our learning, so as well as introducing the new DPG Community, we are also making some changes to the Learning Pathway login process from Autumn. If you are an existing Pathway
Hi everyone,
Really exciting times as we look to move to a new home next week. After 2 years the DPG Community is moving to a new home. The platform provides some great new features and a completely new layout and look & feel.
We've listened to you