Take five minutes to savour your coffee and catch up on our pick of L&D news and opinion from across the interwebs.
Let us know what you think of the articles we've shared, and tell us what you've enjoyed reading this week too.
Learning Technologies 2017
- Learning Technologies 2017 preview (Learning Light)
- 14 key people and four useful things you need to know about Learning Technologies 2017 (Kate Graham, LinkedIn)
Skills
- 21st century skills: in 5 steps from buzzword to better soft skills development (Train Tool)
- Can the gig economy survive the British worker? (BusinessZone)
- Transform the best you have into the best there is (Inc)
Performance
- The case against empathy (Vox)
- Are we lost in the minutiae of employee engagement? (David Zinger, LinkedIn)
- Why the secret to productivity isn’t longer hours (The Guardian)
- Are we all working for free? (The Independent)
Learning
- How unconscious bias is holding your company back (Dennis Yang, LinkedIn)
- Digital L&D Pt1: Beyond e-learning (Modern Learning in Practice)
- 5 pointers for getting your head around e-learning (Rachel Burnham)
- Three strategies to power your self-directed learning (Zak Slayback, Medium)
