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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…

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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…

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Learning today, learning tomorrow

Deloitte has just released its Global Human Capital Trends 2016 report. The…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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People Management magazine - another edition with no L&D content. Do you know why?

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…

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Something for the year ahead

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…

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The trends you have seen in learning in 2015

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…

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Become a Performance Catalyst - Whitepaper

The future of learning and development in 2016

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…

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Working out loud. What do you make of it?

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…

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