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Morning All,
I noticed this Tweet this morning from the Learning and Performance Institute
It was one of those Twitter polls that you see from time to time. We're not talking here about a wide spread piece of research, just a quick straw poll. Ev
Read more…We were chatting about a creating a series of bite size content that the wonderful Ady Howes and Lucy Bolton will be putting together over the next few weeks and coming months.
We were trying to think of a catchy name (which will be revealed shortly
Read more…In his recent article, Building a better Hierarchy: why middle managers matter, Rick, author of Flip Chart Fairy Tales, provides an in-depth look at why managers matter to organisations. It is a really good, well-referenced, read.
In it, Rick quotes
Hi All,
Don't suppose anyone can suggest a company/website who offers freebies such as
stress balls, tangles or anything in general free
Many Thanks
Kelly
Read more…This isn't a trick question! The reason I ask is because I heard an interesting case study on how BP does this at the recent CIPD L&D Show in London. The approach is deceptively simple: ask employees about the daily challenges they face in their job
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I'm gathering information for a piece of work I'm doing at the moment regarding expectations of new hires within our contact centres, and I'm curious what life is like in other people's worlds.
If you could spare 5 minutes to answer the below quest
Read more…Last week at the CIPD L&D Show, Paul Morgan, head of L&D at O2 (Telefonica) told delegates that his team solved business problems, that's what it was there to do. For the team, that means ensuring there is a business problem to solve.
The good thing a
Read more…Hello All,
Everything has to have a value these days. Yet the most recent Learning and Development survey suggests that around three Quarters of organisations do not measure anything beyond learner satisfaction.
Working in sales force development, o
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This year's Learning at Work Week takes place 16-22 May and the theme is 'Connect' which is a great theme. You can read more about it on the Campaign for Learning website.
On the site, there is a link to a fast idea generator which might be a
Read more…Last Friday's #ldinsight Twitter chat discussed the question: What would happen if there were no L&D department? Is it a good question to ask? Surely there is enough to do and to figure out without spending time contemplating being out of work?
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Read more…Just curious to find out from other folks who might be heading to the conference what their main focus might be this year?
Faced with a 12% reduction in revenues over the next 4 years since the government implemented change in our sector via the July
Read more…We often talk about learning as this thing that we can't touch, it's something that is hard to tangibly measure, it's something that people often just get 'given' or attend or even better 'Training'. You train a dog right?
We in L&D tend to call eve
Read more…Being relevant is critical to the success of any L&D team. Being relevant to the needs of colleagues, being relevant to the needs of the business, being relevant to the needs of peers even. We all know that the way organisations operate is in a const
Read more…As part of the #MakeItHappen campaign from Towards Maturity, they are providing the opportunity for L&D teams to FOCUS on specific themes to help them progress and become more effective
Laura Overton shares five areas where L&D teams can make a rea
Read more…There are lots of myths surrounding the 70:20:10 learning framework and it’s time those myths were dispelled. So says the benchmarking organisation Towards Maturity, which has teamed up with global learning expert Charles Jennings to produce a report
Read more…How does Paul Morgan measure ROI? "I don't. We are here to solve the businesses problems" #ConfCLC15
— Tim Scott (@TimScottHR) November 19, 2015
The Charity Learning Consortium annual conference took place last week in London. I have pulled together tw
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Does a conference stop when you leave the final session and head home? In analogue days you may have received a printed follow-up to the session you’d been in and you would have had your notes but aside from that there was little scope for the confe
Read more…Having just completed my L&D Level 3 qualification with DPG, I'm now being given the opportunity to put what I've learned into practice......but I need your help!
We are developing a new online tool for assessing the skills of individuals based
Read more…With awards season upon us - the Training Journal and Elearning Awards are on the same night next month - I thought it would be good to create a place where we can share our own successes.
Not only is it great to see and hear each other's achievem
Learner autonomy was raised by a few speakers at the World of Learning Conference this week. The thrust of the thinking is that organisations need to trust learners and give them space to get on with their jobs, supporting them when they identify a n
Read more…Did you know your local CIPD branch will put on relevant events that are free to CIPD members.
Take a look for your local branch here and what events are happening. Remember attending these events are great CPD evidence.
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