A day in the life of: Brad Taylor, Director of People at CIPD
Brad Taylor, Director of People at CIPD, shares how he leads his organization’s HR and people development function. His day balances strategic leadership meetings, employee engagement initiatives, and performance management reviews, while prioritizing early mornings for productivity and evenings with family.
Book review – Fish
Fish! is a motivational fable about transforming a demoralized workplace team using four simple principles: choosing your attitude, playing, making others’ day, and being fully present. Based on a real Seattle fish market, this 110-page book offers practical leadership insights wrapped in an engaging story.
What I Learnt From The Goodpractice Podcast
This morning I cam across an L&D podcast from Good practice titled, ‘How can L&D support performance?’ The podcast feature JD Dillon of Axonify, Ross Garnet of Goodpractrice and Owen Ferguson. I summarised a list of personal lessons which i am sharing below. You can access the podcast at: http://podcast.goodpractice.com/59-how-can-ld-support-performance My lessons from the podcast: When […]
Effective learning can’t be a one-size-fits-all approach
Effective learning requires personalized approaches rather than one-size-fits-all training programs. Modern L&D initiatives should incorporate varied content types, mobile accessibility, and collaborative elements to accommodate different learner preferences and boost engagement.
How to Measure ROI of Training Programs?
Measuring training ROI is essential to validate program effectiveness and justify expenses. Key methods include engaging participants upfront, assessing demonstrated engagement, asking targeted questions, securing commitments, and extending learning into daily work through follow-up systems.
Are you tackling the ‘compliance conundrum?’
Organizations face a compliance conundrum: balancing personalized learning with scale, meeting both learner and regulator needs, and demonstrating efficiency alongside behavioral change. Rules-based training alone no longer influences employee behavior; successful approaches integrate compliance into broader learning strategies and use engaging, technology-enabled programs.
7 Reasons for Encouraging Workplace Collaboration
Workplace collaboration enhances employee performance and business success by facilitating brainstorming, knowledge sharing, and self-awareness. Modern technologies like cloud computing make it easier for teams to work together and make informed decisions across organizations and globally.
Busting four blended learning myths
Blended learning combines multiple delivery methods, but true blended learning requires more than simply adding eLearning to classroom training. This article debunks common myths preventing organisations from implementing effective blended solutions that focus on performance and learner engagement.
Lack of line manager involvement is killing your L&D investment
Line manager involvement is critical to learning transfer success, yet 46% of organisations report minimal manager engagement in training. Research shows only 22% of line managers discuss learning with employees before, during, or after training, significantly reducing the effectiveness of L&D investments.
Measuring *what we do* needs feedback from others
Understanding your workplace behavior requires feedback from others. Observer Assessments in Belbin Team Roles show how colleagues perceive your actions and strengths, revealing whether your behavioral strategy is effective. Self-perception alone doesn’t capture the full picture of how you impact those around you.
Dialogic mindsets, the future of work and straw man L&D arguments
Explore key perspectives on L&D including straw man arguments in learning theory, dialogic mindsets for navigating uncertainty, and thought-provoking questions about the future of work and digital learning.
Emotional fluidity – the missing element?
Emotional intelligence and agility are crucial workplace skills, but they often miss a key element: the physical, visceral experience of emotions. While frameworks like Daniel Goleman’s emotional intelligence model and Susan David’s emotional agility provide valuable strategies for managing feelings intellectually, they may not fully address how our bodies experience and express emotional turmoil.
4 tactics to help learning leaders influence culture
Learning leaders want to influence organizational culture through knowledge sharing and personalized development, but most struggle to achieve these goals. Our benchmark data reveals that top-performing organizations reach 46% achievement compared to just 17% average, using four key tactics that drive measurable impact.
Influencing culture through learning
Learning professionals can influence organizational culture by shifting from top-down L&D approaches to empowering employees to own their learning. Research shows successful organizations build cultures where employees understand business performance links, engage in stretch tasks, and see learning successes celebrated.
Agile: how can Learning & Development get buy-in from CEOs?
L&D leaders can gain CEO buy-in for Agile by demonstrating its effectiveness within their own function first, then sharing proven benefits from non-IT applications. Three key strategies include building Agile practices into L&D operations, using real results to make the business case, and helping executives understand how to create environments where Agile truly flourishes.
How to cultivate agility through learning
Learn how high-performing organizations cultivate agility through strategic L&D practices. Laura Overton reveals that top organizations speed up product launches by 24% and boost engagement by 18% through learner-centric approaches, tailored content delivery, and outcome-focused feedback mechanisms.
4 tactics to help learning leaders cultivate agility
Learning leaders can cultivate organizational agility through four key tactics: actively monitoring how staff learn, fostering conversation via learning communities, and designing targeted content that meets immediate needs. Research shows 43% of high-performing organizations proactively engage employees in their learning journey.
Is there a future for Continuing Professional Development (CPD)?
CPD (Continuing Professional Development) was designed to encourage ongoing learning and reflection, but many organizations reduced it to a year-end scramble to meet targets. When learning measures became targets, efforts shifted to counting training activities rather than sustaining behavior change and improving actual work performance.
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