How are you using lessons from neuroscience
This month the CIPD have published a report called Neuroscience in Action: Applying Insight to L+D Practice. How are you using the emerging science about how the brain works and learns to inform your learning design and delivery? I'm interested in practical applications – how has neuroscience informed your learning and change management design and […]
Can neuroscience and behaviour mapping show the way?
There is no doubt that the origin of all behaviour is brain chemistry and structure and that the outcome of peak performance is the demonstrated behaviours at work. Behaviour mapping identifies this link that is unique to all staff and managers. Geoff Greenwood explains. Many commentators are suggesting that we are leaving behind the recession […]
Five things I learned on an NLP course that changed my life
It's a divisive subject but nevertheless a popular technique, in coaching and other areas of L&D. Sally Hall attended a course recently. Having heard and read much about the effectiveness of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) I signed up to a ‘basics’ course to learn a little more about the principles, and can honestly say it was […]
Six things you need to know about neuroscience to help develop learning
How do we make learning stick? The CIPD's Ruth Stuart tackles the grey matter to give us an insight into how we might make that happen. Brain plasticity – that is, how much our brain connectivity, function and structure can change in response to learning – is possible throughout our lives. Our brains are most […]
Leading with personality pt4: Planning – is it essential or constricting?
In his fourth and final article exploring leadership in terms of the dimensions of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Tim Schuler explains how the judging/perceiving preference helps us understand how we relate to the outer world, as well as holding the key to exploring the MBTI in greater depth. I sometimes hear people dismiss the Myers-Briggs […]
Leading with personality pt3: Thinking or feeling?
In the third of four articles exploring leadership in terms of the dimensions of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Tim Schuler looks at how Thinking and Feeling preferences impact upon decision making. In most things, I don’t really mind if people agree with me, as long as what I say or do provokes a reaction. I […]
Leading with personality pt2: What role does intuition play in leadership?
In the second of four articles exploring leadership in terms of the dimensions of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Tim Schuler suggests that balancing sensing and intuition is essential to great leadership. Many years ago, I was a few months into a new job and my manager and I were struggling to communicate. She kept bombarding […]
How to become an extraordinary learner
Ian Lock has some tips to up your learning game. Read on for enlightenment. When was the last time you truly learnt something new? I don’t mean something small like someone’s name or how to get from one place to another. I mean something that required your learning muscle to be properly flexed. The world […]
What is neuroleadership?
Amy Brann explores what this fascinating new field may mean to you. What is neuroleadership? Neuroleadership is the field that uses neuroscience (the scientific study of the brain) to underpin leadership concepts. Due to advances in our understanding around how the brain works over the last twenty to thirty years more fields are turning to […]
Adult Learners’ Week: Whatever you do, keep learning
To tie in with this Adult Learners’ Week (12 – 18 May), we’re publishing an article a day from L&D practitioner and workplace wellness guru Liggy Webb. To round off the week, Liggy’s advice is: keep learning. One way to become a more effective learner is to keep learning. If you are learning a new […]
Adult Learners’ Week: Learn and grow
To tie in with this Adult Learners’ Week (12 – 18 May), we are publishing an article a day from L&D practitioner and workplace wellness guru Liggy Webb. Today, Liggy tells us how to learn and grow. I have outlined here a few tips and advice that can help you to learn better and more […]
Adult Learners’ Week: Learning styles
To tie in with this Adult Learners’ Week (12 – 18 May), we’re publishing an article a day from L&D practitioner and workplace wellness guru Liggy Webb. Today, learning styles. It is useful to understand that we are all different and we will learn in different ways. Knowing and understanding your learning style can make […]
Holistic approach to learning is key, says Prof Robert Winston
Professor Robert Winston told delegates at Learning Live that environment, emotion and personality are key for effective learning. Prof Winston, who is professor of science and society at Imperial College London, summarised the process of learning for humans into the following areas: The human brain matures from infancy. The greatest plasticity of learning is […]
Top five barriers to effective leadership
Neuroscience can help take the guesswork out of leadership. Amy Brann looks at the main barriers to effective leadership. For decades leadership skills have been based on trial and error. For example, we all know a John Smith who thinks that it is important to keep people in their place, for them to know who […]
12 top learning personality traits
Robin Hoyle of Infinity Learning offers a few of his character assassinations to the TrainingZone community. So, which one are you? Apprentice Remember the old adage "The learning gained from doing the task is more important than the output of the task itself". An apprentice is new – you’ve got to give them space and […]
NLP: The pseudoscience that should be ‘mothballed’
Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a technique used by many trainers and coaches within the world of L&D, but many have serious reservations about its validity. Donald Clark presents the case against. NLP is one of those topics that has been abandoned by academia and psychology but still soldiers on in the training world. To be fair, […]
Dr Peter Honey: Learning doesn’t have to be fun
Even the most unwilling can be encouraged to learn, but the experience does not have to be fun to be effective, according to learning styles guru, Dr Peter Honey. Speaking at an event hosted by the Charity Learning Consortium, Honey, who developed the Learning Styles Questionnaire, turned the old adage of ‘you can lead a […]
No neurosexism please, we’re trainers
Training providers need to be careful of indulging in ‘neurosexism’, after revelations that widely accepted differences between male and female abilities are not hardwired into their brains from birth but are the result of cultural assumptions. Cordelia Fine, a researcher at Melbourne University, argues in her book entitled ‘Delusions of Gender’, which is due to be […]
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 […]
Learning styles tool for call centre employees launches
New technology that caters to the different learning styles and preferences of call centre workers has been launched. ‘Love Your Agents,’ the new ‘user interface,’ created by Sword Ciboodle and Capgemini has been based on academic research into learning styles and provides the worker with the ability to choose the version that best suits their […]
