Archive for 'L&D Capability'
Walk a mile in my shoes and Learning Councils
Have you heard the song “Walk a Mile in My Shoes”? It was a powerful song of the ’60s written by Joe South and covered by none other than Elvis Presley. The song was about prejudice, [...]
Do you have a Personal Development Plan?
Sat in a meeting room somewhere in Manchester my quarterly review was drawing to a close. It had been a good conversation, a chance to reflect on the last few months, the trials and tribulations of [...]
True Pioneer: William C Norris
With all the discussion we have about learning technologies, social networking and relevance to learning it’s worth spending a few minutes to reflect on, and be humbled by, the work of a man who, at the [...]
WARNING, social netWORK AHEAD
I’ve been reading with interest recent articles and blog posts proclaiming that social practices won’t work in the enterprise. Posts such as ‘You ready to fail at social networking’ and the excellent post from Jeevan Joshi [...]
Share and prosper!
We work in teams within organisations and organisations form part of a larger community of suppliers, distributors and customers. In the past, and there continues to be, some great examples of organisations providing learning to suppliers, [...]
Find the need, demonstrate the value
In order to understand a tool, you have to use it. In order to understand its value you have to apply its use to something to see whether it improves a task or an issue. Until [...]
The disillusionment of training
The Freedictionary provides the following description of disillusionment; “having lost one’s ideals, illusions, or false ideas about someone or something; disenchanted” I’ve been spending a lot of time recently thinking about the role of training in [...]
Know-how: leave a legacy!
The most recent Learning Cafe Webinar focussed on finding, sharing and growing internal expertise. Some of the discussion was about knowledge sharing and it made me reflect on an approach I used some years ago in [...]
Trust or Bust – attracting and growing performance professionals
In his book (2006) The Speed of Trust, Stephen M R Covey draws together a very convincing argument about how a high level of trust shared by organisational colleagues, management, clients, suppliers and distributors, has a [...]
The Blame Game
Unfortunately the ‘blame game’ isn’t something linked to my last post about gamification. It relates to a catchphrase that was a running joke in a previous role. In my time as a trainer there were a [...]
Learning Cafe Webinar
Branding of Learning or is reputation enough ?
Date : 31 May, Thursday 12 pm – 1 pm, EST /Sydney
Peter Hall - QBE
Kara McLeod - Employee Branding Mgr, E&Y
Jeevan Joshi - Moderator, Learning Cafe
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Walk a mile in my shoes and Learning Councils
Peter - having just had the first meeting of the QBE Australia Learnin
Gartner's top tech 2012 predictions: Impact on learning at 3 levels
There is bit of a lag say another 1 - 2 years before it impacts Learni
Do you have a Personal Development Plan?
Great comments here John, thanks for adding your thoughts. I agree the
Do you have a Personal Development Plan?
Hi Michele, thanks for stopping by and leaving your thoughts, it is ve
Walk a mile in my shoes and Learning Councils
I fully support the idea of a learning council. Complementing the reas