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The Snapchatification of learning

I was part of a panel discussion at a Learning and Performance Institute event this week. In the session I shared a few statements and eye-catching numbers to help provoke debate and conversation. Two of those stats were:

There are 8 billion daily vid

The 'Old' L&D Mindset

I've been involved in a few conversations recently about mindset. 

• Abundance Mindset
• Scarcity Mindset 
• Growth Mindset 
• Fixed Mindset 

I've got a blog brewing somewhere about this as mindset ultimately affects how you see things, how you react to th

Freebies

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

Death to Learning & Development - Fact or Fiction

Albums or playlists? Courses or resources?

I thought I'd finished for the night here as I played through some tunes and had one last browse on Twitter. Then an article 'After the Album: How Playlists are Re-Defining Listening' shared on Twitter by Martin Couzins caught my eye. It talks about

Corporate Learning ‘Wildly Out of Sync’ With How Individuals Learn for Themselves

We read with interest the research conducted by Towards Maturity on more than 2,000 potential workers which reveals the gulf between learner aspirations and the experience of learning in the workplace.

A study of more than 2,000 people who paid for t

Anyone heading to the CIPD Learning and Development Conference in 2016? Why....?

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

Learning today, learning tomorrow

Deloitte has just released its Global Human Capital Trends 2016 report. The report is based on a survey of 7,000 HR and business leaders and provides a list of HR trends. Learning is high on the list and in the section analysing the survey results is

Is there a glass wall?

As the number and variety of dedicated L&D roles continues to rise, coupled with the expanding utilisation of Business partner models with a clear and stated need for L&D professionals to be commercially adept to elevate the function beyond deliverin

Is productivity stifled by workplace procedures?

UK employees are stifled by rule-heavy, over-stuffy workplace environments. And this situation is hindering productivity, according to research from the CIPD’s 2015 Employee Outlook Survey.

Productivity is rarely out of the business press. We have ru

Great free sessions with leading L&D thinkers at the Learning Technologies Exihibition

Hi all. I just wanted to flag up the fact that L&D benchmarking organisation Towards Maturity is hosting free discussions with a range of leading L&D thinkers and practitioners at next week's Learning Technologies Conference and Exhibition.

Thes

4 Hottest eLearning Trends for 2016

We do love a good trend especially at the start of a new year when we look ahead to what's going to happen in a particular field 

eLearning is certainly one where the futurists like to look ahead and predict what's influencing design and development