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.
For anyone in this group who is in L&D and periodically glances at the People Management magazine wondering why the content is so HR biassed, then the simply answer is that the magazine does not know what proportion of the (I hesitate to say readersh
Read more…I've recently spotted a couple of polls running asking L&D professionals about their year ahead. The first is being run by Donald Taylor, chairman of the Learning and Performance Institute, and it asks what will be hot for L&D in the year ahead. You
Read more…Hi all
It's that time of year when the media (and a lot of the web for that matter) is creating lists of trends for 2016. With this in mind I wanted to see if we could create our own list of the learning trends we have seen this year. It maybe that it
Read more…Learning as part of the workflow is critical to achieving business performance. It has perhaps never been more important in the technology and innovation age.
A crucial element of this transformation is
Over the last couple of years I've seen more and more people talk about working out loud.
This article explains what it is and why it is worth adopting as an approach to knowledge sharing in the organisation.
What do you think about the concept and h
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…Hi everyone- help please for one of my clients has asked me to help her in finding a company with a great graduate programme who would be willing to discuss what they have done to make their graduate programmes dynamic, up to date and "funky"!
They ar
Read more…It’s the start of the L&D conference season. Next week see the Learning and Performance Institute’s Learning Live, followed by the World of Learning and then the CIPD’s annual conference and exhibition.
If you aren’t able to attend these conferences,
Happy September! Hope you all had a good bank holiday weekend.
I've just read this article on the Netflix effect on training: http://www.inc.com/donna-wells/the-netflix-effect-on-training.html
It highlights three areas where we can shift approach in
Read more…A few weeks back I had the pleasure of being at Training Journal's 50th Anniversary. There were a variety of key-note speakers delivering sessions on a range of topics. One of those was David James, former Director of Talent/L&OD at Disney, Fo
Read more…I came across this useful business and training glossary so if you're confused by the latest L&D lingo? Take a look at this glossary from Training Zone.
http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/glossary
Read more…Hi all,
We are currently updating our Company Induction material and I need some advice on how to make the "HR and policy" and "History and Heritage" sessions a bit more fun?
We currently just talk people through slides, with a bit of an activity on "p
Read more…The ATD held their international conference and exposition last week, DPG's Bob Wagner shares his thoughts on the event.
We were delighted to lead the 50-strong UK delegation at the ATD (Association for Talent Development) international conference a
Read more…So the biggest L&D show in the world has been on in Orlando, Florida and over 4 days there has been a huge amount of content shared online.
Dave Kelly curates and pulls all these resources together so those who couldn't make the conference don't miss
Read more…The official theme is "change and building resilience" this year.
The subject is a year too late for us as our business went through this last year, so we are widening the scope to include work/life balance and hopefully some wellbeing and mindfulness
Read more…Dear All,
I am seeking some assistance in one of the projects i am working on and i hope i can have some useful ideas here !
We run a 2-years Management development program every year (some sort of graduate scheme program) but we target our internal e
OK so let's clear one thing up before we start - Pedagogy is not a term I'm fond of (I can't even pronounce it) so let's try and make it simple.
I mentioned in Swimming in the Social Stream that the outcome of our conversations and learning experience was to create a 3 minute presentation on social learning. This was then to be played back to the other attendees of the Social HR Conference to
Read more…Ideas are easy, but making things happen, introducing these new ideas and getting them off the ground can be really hard.
Martin Couzins and I have been pulling together a collection of resources to help people in L&D to find the new ideas, but more
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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