What’s the reality of digital learning transformation today?
Digital transformation is coming to learning, whether you’re ready or not. A massive 71% of organisations are currently in progress with their transformation journey. Based on new research conducted in partnership with Learning Technologies, director of research at Fosway Group, David Perring, explores the reality of what that means for L&D in the first of […]
Creating Learning Culture in Your Company
Employee training plays a crucial role in retention today. That is why one cannot afford to omit it. First, on boarding a new employee is always more costly than converting and giving a new function to an existing worker who is already familiar with the corporate culture and generally knows the ropes. Moreover, the opportunity […]
Is The Cloud-First Approach Right For You?
We all know that cloud computing represents the technology of both the present and the future. It creates flexibility, enhances and streamlines technological processes, and can actually save organizations significant money. But, is the cloud-first approach, which is anticipated to explode in corporate growth within the next few years, right for all business infrastructures? Or, […]
Why the apprenticeship levy means more for your seniors than juniors
At first glance, the apprenticeships levy for large employers only looks important for traditional ‘apprentices’ coming into a business and entry-level training. But the implications are more far-reaching – maybe transformational when it comes to L&D budgets – and have a particular importance for more experienced staff. The levy means employers are going to need […]
How to Upgrade Your Professional Consciousness
“Consciousness is your operating system. Mindfulness is the upgrade.” Imagine for a moment that you were a computer. What sort of error messages would you have seen already today? SYSTEM ERROR: Information overload. Status: critical. SYSTEM ERROR: You are attempting to relax. This function is not permitted. SYSTEM ERROR: Anxiety detected. Processing may be haphazard. […]
How to set up bespoke internal training plans
Training is not just an important part of personal career progression, through effective training you can improve the skills of your whole workforce, in turn making your business more productive and your employees more satisfied. The type of internal training programs your organisation can benefit from will strongly depend on your goals, resources, amount of […]
Breaking Through Procrastination: 4 Tips to Know
You know that saying, I’ll work on my procrastination, tomorrow? It’s definitely applicable, right? In fact, as I’m writing this on procrastination right now, I have multiple tabs open on my computer, I just checked my phone, and I’m fighting off my brain telling me to grab another cup of coffee. Call it a generational […]
Changing Fixed Habits On Horseback
As some of you will know from previous blogs, outside of work, one of my great joys is spending time with my horses, who are currently in livery on Dartmoor. I have two; one who is 25 and (officially) retired, and another that I trained from scratch, who will be 10 this year. My ten […]
Don’t let irregular training drive staff from your business
We all know the whole culture surrounding the workplace and the idea of jobs in general is changing: people are working remotely and for many different companies in their lifetime. There isn’t the old sense of long-term ‘job loyalty’ anymore. A UK worker will now change employer every five years on average, with millennials more […]
How are training companies preparing for GDPR?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to training companies from May 25th, 2018. With less than a month to go, now is the perfect time to ensure that training organisations are ready for the deadline. We have recently held a webiner on how training companies can ensure that they are prepared. Watch now: https://www.accessplanit.com/gdpr-a-checklist-for-training-companies-webinar The webinar: Walks […]
L&D remodeling project
Hi. I am currently redesigning our L&D delivery system and am wondering if there are any guides or standards that should be followed to create the learning materials/resoucres? I am looking to produce training videos and step-by-step guides but am unsure of structure and content and am struggling to find templates or guides on this. Any help would be […]
Finally Embracing Women Leaders as Women
Some may think my life is weird. I’m a serious academic who loves teaching business to students from around the world. On the other hand, I teach karate to young elementary school kids. Yesterday, I was knee deep in business failure statistics and the latest marketing automation innovation. And last night I had to keep […]
A 360 degree view of learning: how to get organisations on board with learning design
When designing learning and development programmes, we need to think about the line managers and how they can help ensure that the learning intervention creates change. Jackie Clifford, Director of Clarity Learning and Development, looks at how to do this. In learning and development, I believe that most of us are concerned with helping individuals to learn AND, […]
How you can move from problem-focused to solution-focused
Today’s leadership requires a totally different way of looking at things when it comes to encouraging creative problem-solving. Leadership is about acknowledging a problem and immediately exploring the opportunity behind it. It believes that every problem hides a solution that opens up to new options. This is what we call a solutions-focused mindset. Every conflict […]
Why you need to create a personal brand to conquer L&D skills
There has been a lot of pressure on the modern L&D leader in the past 18 months to build their skills and capabilities, moving from tactical to strategic and aligning learning to business objectives. However, despite the influx of discussion around this, and the industry acceptance to head in this direction, the reality is that […]
Building a SADEL Organisation: a look at teams
Building a Self-Directed, Agile, Digital, Exponential, Learning (SADEL) organisation is critical to survival in a digital world. In part 4 of a 5-part series, organisational behaviourist and learning strategist Kerryn Kohl takes an in-depth look at building teams in a SADEL organisation. In part 3 we explored the core of this framework, the mindset and […]
Change is Emotional
People sometimes question why we use so much story in our training materials, and why we put so much emphasis on emotionally engaging learners, rather than simply delivering facts and figures, in what some consider a more ‘academic’ way, with supporting PowerPoint. Well there’s a simple answer to this. We’re not interested in delivering information; […]
Profiting from diversity
Let’s start right off by saying that yes, we know the title of this article can be read in two ways; and no, we are not suggesting that businesses and business leaders should revert to some kind of divide and conquer relationship. On the other hand, the drive to improve diversity levels across organisations is […]
Use learning as a perk and see your people and your business grow
Integrate learning into your rewards and recognition offering and you will see a learning culture grow within your business, argues Rajeeb Dey, CEO of Learnerbly. If I mention employee rewards, or perks, what springs to mind? Many employers will think first of financial incentives and bonus schemes, or maybe they’ll point to the most traditional trade-off for […]
Romanticising leadership: are we undeniably guilty?
The heroic leader swooping in to save a business from certain death, a trail of devoted followers in their wake.We all love a good character and the role of the leader is one that we are endlessly fascinated with…. A quick Google search on ‘how to be a great leader’ brings back 460 million results […]
