Breaking down language barriers means better business
Armin Hopp, founder and president of dp, suggests ways in which senior managers can assess the organisational requirements for multilingualism. In an increasing globalised corporate environment, the need to communicate effectively is more crucial to business growth than ever before. A study contracted by the European Commission Directorate General for Education and Culture revealed that […]
Blending for success: Part two
In part two of his series, Robin Hoyle explores the important factors to consider in developing your blend and reminds us that a well designed blended programme mirrors the way we learn in real life. I made a rather sweeping statement in the last article that learning is a social activity. Let’s unpack that for […]
Blending for success: Part one
Robin Hoyle looks at the role blended learning has to play in successful training outcomes. Part one addresses the components in the blended learning mix. It wasn’t that long ago that blended learning was still spoken of as a mysterious next generation of training. For some people outside the elearning world this was the admission […]
The Company: Episode 6 – quality management tick boxes
In the last episode of the first series, Arjun finally gets to meet up with Farrah, director of corporate governance and quality to challenge her about what seems like the latest quality management fad. Farrah talks a good talk, but is it enough to convince him? bits://v/QcE6sMhl-kCMmvSXN Reflection point: Are you convinced by what Farrah […]
Trainer with Shared Services experience
I’m looking for a Training Provider with extensive experience of Shared Services. Have just set up a new SS division, currently made of of various Finance teams (Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, etc) There is a need for Customer Service training across two sites, for approximately 200 people altogether. Please let me know if […]
Incorporating social learning into the blended learning mix
L&D professionals know that about 80% of what people learn on the job is through informal means, but most are only starting to consider ways of harnessing social learning to deliver business benefits. Vincent Belliveau examines why social learning will continue to be a major trend in 2010, and how it may be integrated into a […]
Learning styles in focus: Peter Honey
Following on from the David Kolb interview, Dr Peter Honey tells TrainingZone.co.uk how the Honey & Mumford Learning Styles Questionnaire came into being. The Honey & Mumford Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ) was first published in 1982 – so long ago that many trainers (well, young trainers!) can’t remember life with out it. Once people recover from […]
It’s all in the blend
Training and development budgets are facing the squeeze. Pete Bennett explains how blended learning can really be the best of both worlds – and cost effective too. Anyone working in learning and development (L&D) as a practitioner or a supplier knows only too well that training budgets are often one of the first items to […]
Jay Cross: “Blended learning is bunk, informal learning the future”
Ed’s note 9 Nov 2015: Jay Cross was a man who did so much to progress the purpose, direction and future of L&D in business and one of the first names I heard multiple times in passing when I started out as editor of TrainingZone in 2010. And rightly so. He may forever be associated with the term ‘elearning’ but his […]
Opinion: Training is not enough
Not only is training far from the only answer, sometimes it is the wrong answer, says Donald H Taylor, who asks that L&D managers turn down more training requests. In part 1 of this article I suggested that training is […]
