Archive for 'Learning & Performance'
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 [...]
Playing by numbers
The theme of last week’s Learning Cafe in Sydney was How to Win Friends and Influence Learning Stakeholders. Among the stakeholders considered was the “C-Level & Leadership”. This got me thinking, do the C-suite and lower [...]
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 [...]
Employee engagement – the Australian dilemma: The role of coaching and and leadership styles
In February 2009 Fiona Smith reported in the Australian Financial on the most recent (till then) Gallup poll of 1000 workers. The poll showed 79% of workers as either not engaged, or actively disengaged. This poll [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Method and madness – Disconnect between learning & knowledge
I’ve oftened wondered about the organisational disconnect between Learning and KM/Documentation areas. For years the model has perpetuated a sort of ‘doubling up’ on effort around the information people need to perform on the job. Learning [...]
Did anyone ask if you wanted email?
At my last post The Effectiveness of Learning – Ready Set Go (Part 2) which discussed the implementation of e-learning, I mentioned I’d write next about a implementation that was surprisingly and refreshingly simple. For many [...]
Brainstorming: From Dark Clouds to Sunshine
A few months ago I led a brainstorming session for an organisation wanting to break into a new market and differentiate on service and price. The session was successful in that some great ideas were put forward [...]
Learning Professionals – Do you need to tweak your pipes?
Learning Cuppa from the UK In my last post I talked about the Institute of IT Training (IITT) becoming the Learning & Performance Institute (LPI). The big announcement came at Learning Live last week; you can [...]
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