There are countless great L&D websites and blogs we read every week, so we decided that rather than just selfishly enjoying them to ourselves, we'd start sharing our favourites with you every Monday, as a nice way to ease yourself into the working week.

We hope you find the articles as useful or interesting as we do - feel free to let us know your thoughts in the comments below, or suggest any other articles, videos & podcasts we should take a look at.

Trainers Tips & Tricks

- Scaffolded Memorization: A new way to memorise your presentations - Medium

- "What's your biggest eLearning challenge?" - Shift eLearning

- Why your next training event will fail - Growing Leaders

Brain science

- Placebos, experiments and learning interventions - Challenging Frontiers

- Why your brain loves good storytelling - HBR

Learning in Business

- How creative thinkers can thrive in a regulated industry - TechCrunch

- Poor writing skills are costing businesses billions - Inc

- The Value of Workshops - Xactly Corp

Nifty Ideas

- MOOCs 101: A selection of great TED Talks about online education - TED Talks

- How to craft onboarding that has staying power - Association for Talent Development

- How to use social media to improve teaching & boost CPD - The Guardian