Engaging with engagement
Search employee engagement on the internet and the chances are that amidst all the ‘what is employee engagement’ and ‘top tips for employee engagement’ articles there will be a fair few which are packed with doom and gloom. Quoting various surveys, these articles will pronounce that employee engagement isn’t working or that it is so […]
Instructors are the new developers
The Rise and fall and rise of online education Online education. You probably have feelings about it. But do you know how to make the most of it? Like an English major full of hope and idealism who comes home to stay for a spell, online education was cute and brimming with potential, in the beginning. […]
Tempting the self-employed out of hiding!
I've been a self-employed trainer for the past seven years. Along with two colleagues, we often "indulge ourselves" in the odd CPD activity or two. I guess that's because we eat, sleep and breathe Continuing Professional Development? The same can't be said for many business owners. In the early days, I remember how easy it was […]
4 Reasons Why Your Organization Needs A Learning Culture
You’ve heard the saying “Never stop learning”. Today, this adage is particularly meaningful as our technological, political, and business environments rapidly change and evolve, meaning we are now conducting our work in new ways. But does your organization have a learning culture? To keep abreast of these changes and ensure your business is flexible and […]
Do you find learning styles helpful?
I attended a session at Learning Technologies which debunked learning styles – but in practice do you find that learners do respond better to different approaches? Is it more effective to tailor your training to the learner, or to focus more on making sure that the delivery method is best for the content you’re covering? […]
Do you appreciate your ‘sloggers’?
Jenni Russell commented in The Times (4/2/2016) that bosses don’t notice the strong and silent types. It pays to be one of the office jumper-uppers. She comments that if you are one of those “sloggers” that “work hard, be competent and self-reliant, never panic in a crisis, willingly volunteer for late hours, and never draw […]
15 Best Questions for effective employee evaluation during Performance Reviews
How’d you like to have a look at the most effective questions to evaluate employees during performance reviews? (I have compiled a long list over 12 years of interactions with HR leaders across industries) Well consider yourself very lucky… …because today I’m going to open the treasure trove and share with you 15 of the […]
5 Reasons Why You Need To Invest In Employee Training
In this article we will outline 5 reasons why you need to invest in employee training, even during economically challenging times. When things get financially tight in business, often employee training is the first thing to go. However, this is not necessarily a sound strategic move for a leading organization forging the way in a competitive […]
Engaging in wellbeing
No one is indispensable! Actually that’s not quite true. No one should be indispensable but in far too many organisations the leadership, planning, training and resource allocation just doesn’t allow for cross-training needs. It’s easy to see how this can happen. When budgets are tight we look to train people for the tasks which we are […]
How To Engage With Millennials
As a millennial myself I had a pretty bad reputation to overcome even before I’ve entered the workforce. Some bashed us for being too lazy. Others call us the generation of narcissists with toddler attention span, spending our entire days on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Yet, at the same time most of us are persistent, […]
Measuring customer satisfaction
We’ve had a post over on our LinkedIn group and I thought it would be interesting to hear your experiences and tips! I am looking to overhaul an evaluation system to gauge customer satisfaction for the courses that we deliver. I am seeking your opinions with regards to the ways that you capture that information. […]
What have you done today…
Welcome to 2016. Why the New Year is traditionally seen as a time for reviewing and resetting expectations is perhaps a matter for discussion at another time; but it’s a fair bet that in the dying days of 2015 and the bright new hope of 2016 considerable numbers of businesses across the land will have […]
It’s good to be back – years in the Social Media wilderness!
Hello all, Blimey – it’s good to be back! How things have changed on here! I used to love the Discussion forums and slowly weaned myself off Training Zone when “Any Answers” appeared. Much prefer the banter and posts in this format. Anyhow, while I’ve been away, I’ve been growing my training business. Part of this […]
Is your learning in the dark ages?
The New Year always starts with a fresh sense of optimism. Most of us have an idea of what we are looking to achieve this year in our work and personal lives – some more than others. For L&D departments, some will be continuing with their current programmes of learning and some will be striving […]
Success starts with people
There’s no escaping it; whatever you do in business, your success or your failure ultimately rests with your people. Whether they are creating great customer experiences, collaborating to come up with innovative solutions, or simply getting on with daily tasks; it is their approach, their attitude, their enthusiasm which drives success. As a strategic advisor […]
5 Reasons Why You Need To Invest In Employee Training
In this article we will outline 5 reasons why you need to invest in employee training, even during economically challenging times. Why You Need To Invest In Employee Training When things get financially tight in business, often employee training is the first thing to go. However, this is not necessarily a sound strategic move for […]
How presentations have a new interactive place in education…
Whilst I could toot the horn of Glisser’s ability to make presentations interactive (http://www.glisser.com/interactive-presentation), which you all know I have done before and I am a massive advocate for the software. I read a rather interesting article detailing some points as to how we can make presentations interactive and use this to support educators and […]
Training for 2016
This time last year when we sat down to write our roundup of 2014 we called 2015 a year of hope, one in which the digital challenge would really start have an impact and in which “technology frees us to work collaboratively for the good of all.” Have our predictions come true? Well as with […]
Sparking Creativity with Icebreakers
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” ~ George Patton Osho once said that “creativity is the greatest form of rebellion.” Occasionally, you just need to rebel against mediocrity. Creativity is about connecting things that aren’t obviously connected, so an exercise that […]
Technology connects us but is not the connection
The Social Age is about connections: Within networks, through technology, to communities, with each other, over time. It’s about co-created stories: Knowledge built in the moment from multiple sources and filtered through the sense-making groups we belong to. It’s more than just me, more than just you, more that just those people that we know. […]