Learning Styles of Different Myers Briggs Types
During my time in the workforce, I noticed that few companies tailor their training to individual employees. Many organizational strategists recognize the flaws with this approach, because every employee’s personality type and learning style is different. This mistake is particularly common in the business world. Two-thirds of business school students score highly on levels of […]
Effective learning can’t be a one-size-fits-all approach
Personalisation is becoming a key feature of the most effective technology, tailoring the experience to our preferences to make life easier. We now take it for granted that Netflix offers us content suggestions based on what we’ve watched before or Amazon offers us products we might like based on our previous purchases. Yet when it […]
“We are bound to see more industries undergoing digital transformation.”
This is an interview with Gori Yahaya, founder of training and education consultancy UpSkill Digital. He has over 10 years of experience consulting and training thousands of SMEs, charities, and business owners across the UK on how to boost their digital skills and harness the power of the internet and tools effectively to drive growth […]
Are you tackling the ‘compliance conundrum?’
This is an interview with Genny Dixon, Head of Research at Towards Maturity, and was conducted off the back of the release of Towards Maturity’s free new report, In-Focus: Solving the Compliance Conundrum. Jamie Lawrence, Managing Editor, TrainingZone: What do you mean by the compliance conundrum? Genny Dixon, Head of Research, Towards Maturity: The international and regulatory […]
“We need to all be lifelong learners, taking input and inspiration every day.”
Stephen Walsh has been involved in the learning and technology industry for 20 years, co-founding global learning company Kineo. Stephen is an investor in BuzzSumo and is particularly passionate about both continuous learning and great information deisgn. He will be speaking at Learning Live on September 6th and 7th on content curation and it’s importance to […]
Busting four blended learning myths
Recent years have seen a rise in organisations reducing their use of face-to-face training in favour of a blended learning approach. However, Towards Maturity reports that only 22% of learning is delivered through fully blended solutions, and while this is has grown in recent years, there is still room for improvement. At Bray Leino Learning, […]
3 design thinking examples in soft skills training
When developing a training program in which you want to teach your employees a lot of new information within a short timeframe, there is a danger of ‘overwhelming’ your employees. The ‘overwhelmed employee’ is a concept well-known within HR. Employees that have been faced with too much new learning material to process will not be […]
Leadership isn’t a 6 month plan
The trouble is that we start discussing things in January, finalise plans sometime around April, it then takes a couple of months to get people and budgets in place by which time we’re into the summer holidays. So it’s hardly surprising then that we really get going on our annual plan sometime around September by […]
How to cultivate agility through learning
In the sixth article in our series looking at how learning professionals can deliver on five key business outcomes, Laura Overton, CEO and founder of Towards Maturity, provides insights into how the most successful organisations are cultivating agility through learning. To survive and succeed in today’s fast-moving, ever-changing world, organisations need L&D functions that are […]
Connected Learning: the new, socially-interactive approach to online training
Online elearning has been hugely successful in allowing training to be delivered cost-effectively to very large audiences. However, training that’s purely online often results in a reduced experience and quality of learning compared to interactive classroom training. By contrast, we have found that a new online approach – Connected Learning – can provide even greater […]
B2B Organizational Trainings and Language Barriers
I know most probably a lot of you guys would say to go for Training in English language but believe me we have been having a really hard time in delivering the training to our employess from different countries especially in China and Germany. People from these two specific countries feel more comfortable if the […]
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4 tactics to help learning leaders boost performance
In our article looking at boosting performance through learning we looked at some of the ways organisations are looking to boost performance. Our latest benchmark report, Unlocking Potential, shows that this is a major area of focus for L&D, with 96% of learning leaders wanting to improve organisational performance. This is an ambitious goal and […]
Elections and the Gift of Power
In the aftermath of all the recent political excitement, including the meteoric rise of President Macron in France and the recent elections here in the UK, I’ve found myself reflecting on the nature of power and influence, and particularly on a fairy story I wrote some years ago. It was written to support the work […]
How To Encourage Innovation Among Employees
Businesses don’t succeed by relying only on ideas from the top. Although your executives and leaders should be focusing on ways to innovate and improve your business, oftentimes the best and brightest ideas come from your staff. After all, they regularly interact with the nitty gritty details of running your business, and often have unique […]
How can we quickly deal with unconscious bias?
Your decisions are more heavily influenced by unconscious bias than you may realise and influence your attitudes and how you behave towards other people. You may think that you are making a solid, rational decision based on weighing up the evidence but it will still be driven by instinctive feelings as much as by rational […]
Blended Trainers, You are Cannibals
All over the world people are worrying about the impact that technology will have on employment and existing industries in general. Self-driving cars, robots taking over the production chain, machines taking over manual chores, e-commerce… need I go on? Within each sector, the training world included, technology is disrupting businesses and replacing the workforce at […]
Literary masterclass: How to write well
The most common concept of “well writing” is relative. Well – for whom? One reader will find that it is written well, others will turn their noses. It’s like with singers: in principle, the notes all fall, but someone you listen to as spellbound, but someone you can not stand. But he has his fans, […]
10 Tips for Developing Effective Microlearning
In this article I’ll share my top 10 tips for developing microlearning content and programmes to really capitalise on its many benefits. 1. Keep it snappy Creating concise, focussed content is harder than it sounds. Don’t fall into the trap of bloating content and taking it off focus. An individual piece of microlearning should be short […]
Micro-learning and the maturity of marketers
“The use of mass psychoanalysis to guide campaigns of persuasion has become the basis of a multimillion-dollar industry. Professional persuaders have seized upon it in their groping for more effective ways to sell us their wares — whether products, ideas, attitudes, candidates, goals, or states of mind.” [Source] That was one of the first things […]
