LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT BLOG

There has never been a better time to be a learner. No matter where you are, or how you like to consume your learning, L&D professionals are able to meet your needs. But do they?

It’s back for another year. The Apprentice is four episodes in and everyone is talking about the challenges, the contestants, and what they would do better.

I read with great interest an article reporting that “the most common leadership development methods are often considered the least effective by those in the organisation implementing them”.

When Finance Wales offered me the chance to meet Professor Laura McAllister at their networking event, I jumped at the chance. Who would not want to meet a woman who juggles more current roles than most people have in their entire lifetime?

Over recent weeks I have written widely about Employee Engagement and, in discussions with HR professionals, it is clear that recruitment is the first point at which that engagement can fail – engaging the wrong person (and all the pain that entails) or not maximising and accelerating the engagement of the right individual.

As you'll have seen from my previous blogs, we are still looking into the theories of learning and how they affect modern day cultures. Today I'm looking at open and social pedagogy and the histories of them.

You may have an outstanding training solution – it answers all of the issues your organisation has been facing and tackles performance issues head on. You’ve probably identified which of your people will benefit from the programme and are ready to get them on board. But how do you engage them?

The E-Learning Heroes website is an invaluable tool for a developer; problems can be solved and new ideas shared with a large global community. This is why I often participate in activities on the site.

At times it feels like we are in a digital learning arms race, with exciting new products promising to deliver newer, quicker and more engaging ways to deliver learning.

Innovation can be described as “a new idea or a further development of an existing product, process or method that is applied in a specific context with intention to create a value added.” [Kirkland and Sutch, 2009]