Are "trainers" willing to adopt technology to support or deliver learning or are there other reasons for an often cautious adoption? This article looks for reasons to... or not to adopt...
Tag: general Learning
Blogs do they work for you
Web 2.0 and all that it means… blogs, twitter, interaction etc but what does it mean? Humans are social animals, we need to be part of a social group, a hierarchy. With the demise of the extended family, the nuclear family and more and more isolation perhaps it was inevitable that we will need...
Innovation – Individual or team effort – “Collective Leadership”
Collective Leadership - the next step in ensuring innovation in organisations? Innovation is no longer about individuals but team approaches. his piece explores innovation as a behaviour rather than just a process....
Executive Innovation the key to success
Is Executive Innovation the key to success? The world economy is changing… are we reacting fast enough? For many executives innovation is just not happening fast enough according to recent articles and research from Boston Consulting Group’s annual study on innovation. Many organisations know that first in order to survive and then to grow...
Not What Why
When situations are difficult it is easy to remain task focused (what), but does this help us maintain a future resistant approach? Schein in “Organizational Culture and Leadership” says “what happens in organizations is fairly easy to observe, but in the effort to understand why such things happen, culture as a concept comes into...
SWOT analysis
Using SWOT as a strategic tool...
Social networking in L&D is it effective?
Building a learning community can add to the effectiveness of organisational learning, but often they fail, this articles explores some of the factors required for success....
Twitter as a learning and development tool...
Free discussion group for those involved in training
One of the best kept secrets in the training world is the daily digest from Training Journal. Known as the TJ Daily Digest (once the UKHRD started by Fenman)this daily round-up of questions and answers of all things training is free again sign up here to receive it http://www.trainingjournal.com/ Great for in-house training specialists...
5000 days down what of the next 5000?
The Web is now just over 5000 days old – yes that is all.. imagine what the next 5000 days will bring. Kevin Kelly in this TED presentation highlights some interesting thoughts, Including the fact that the net is the largest and most reliable machine we have ever made. The future will require more...
Don’t do as I say, do as I do
If we are going to train, we must be credible...
Dont do as I say do as I do
Did you see Channel fours “The fun Police” ? In this programme we saw behind the scenes of a Health & Safety Consultant, an HSE inspector and a local authority safety officer. The Health & Safety Consultant was looking around a glazing manufacturer, looking at the operations and running a short session on Manual Handling...
UK training sector crash
With budgets being squeezed it is not surprising that training is taking a hit like many other business services. Traditionally external spend on training has been cut early on but internal training resources allowed to continue to develop. Today I received an advert from Gower – a well respected provider of books and paper...
what is web 20 how is it different
While doing some research I came across this excellent video which neatly shows the transition from text to web 2.0 You will need to keep your wits about you, not only is this about web 2.0 it has been written for the MTV generation… its fast! Explanation of the web 2.0 concept by Michael...
Training commodity or professional service
We are all used to the web based comparison sites for consumer goods, and for the pitch/ tender sites for software and other professional services, but when a site starts a comparison site for training (potentially a strategic advantage for a company) is this right? Today personnel today launched a comparison site for training,...
Pecha Kucha an effective use for powerpoint
Have you come across a powerful presentation planning technique based on Pecha Kucha presentation technique? This is not a new technique, but one which is gaining in popularity. In essence it is a structure where the presenter has just 20 PowerPoint slides each times to change every 20 seconds. The entire presentation taking less than six...