Learndirect launches Make it Count week
Learning and skills provider Learndirect has today launched Make It Count Week – an initiative to help raise the profile of learning for individuals and employers across the UK. The aim of Make It Count Week is to encourage 10,000 people to sign up to learning during the next seven days. Thirteen partners, including the […]
The challenging nature of projects
Written by Joanne Miles, Managing Consultant, LSN In every sector, projects have become a fact of life – and yet project management processes are often not in place. There is an expectation that projects will deliver business change, improved performance, greater outcomes, without sufficient attention being paid to the skills and approaches that deliver such […]
The future of learning at work part 5 – capability building
In the fifth of this series, Donald H Taylor looks at capability building – is it more than just providing classroom courses? Over the past four weeks I have considered what might be seen as some of the less obvious future roles for Learning and Development (L&D). The final role I consider this week […]
The future of learning at work series
Following from IITT chairman Donald H Taylor’s five-part series on the future of learning at work for TrainingZone, I have aggregated all the links to the articles in one place, which I hope you will find useful. The future of learning at work: part 1 – setting the sceneWhy and how L&D practitioners must help […]
The future of learning at work part 4 – performance support
In the fourth of this series, Donald H Taylor looks at the key challenge for L&D: providing performance support. How should learning and development (L&D) practitioners adapt themselves to the changing world of twenty-first century work? In a series of articles I’m working my way through four areas of change described in the series opening […]
‘See inside manufacturing’ launched to improve automotive industry
More than 35 automotive organisations have signed up to the coalition government’s ‘See Inside Manufacturing’ initiative, which is intended to try and improve the sector’s image in a bid to tackle Europe-wide skills shortages. Business Secretary Vince Cable, speaking during a visit to the Mini factory in Oxfordshire yesterday, said that the reason why […]
Learning providers call for joined up approach on skills
If the UK is to create a sustainable jobs market, the coalition government must develop joined up policies around welfare-to-work and apprenticeship-focused skills provision, learning providers have warned. Martin Dunford, chairman of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers, formerly known as the Association of Learning Providers, told the organisation’s annual conference in London yesterday […]
Appraisals don’t work: Regular ‘catch-ups’ do!
Do you dread your annual performance appraisal? Is it stressful for you? Do you find that you have to spend time gathering evidence to prove your worth? Does your annual performance appraisal add or detract from your relationship with your line manager? Ok – a lot of questions to start off with, but they’re the […]
The future of learning at work: part 1 – setting the scene
Donald H Taylor suggests four things learning and development must do to remain relevant in today’s changing world of work. The world of learning at work is changing and we need to change with it. This is not a matter of adopting some new, hyped technology nor of championing the latest fad in training […]
Going for gold – five lessons from sports psychology
Harriet Beveridge and Ben Hunt-Davis look at how sport psychologies translate into the commercial arena. With the first tranche of tickets released and the opening ceremony only just over a year away, Olympic hype is well and truly starting. But aside from the sales and sponsorship opportunities the games present, what relevance do the games […]
How I learn: David Mascord
As part of TrainingZone’s CPD month we are asking training professionals to share how they learn. Here David Mascord shares how he keeps up-to-date with the latest thinking in learning and development. Learning from delegates I find out – or remind myself of – useful lessons every time I run a learning event, whether […]
Free resource: learning spend analysis template
Jessica Adair of Eden Tree provides the community with another great free resource. Read on for more… To ensure a worthwhile return on investment, it’s essential that an organisation’s learning and development budget is spent appropriately. Learning spend analysis is a technique that allows you to perform a retrospective audit of an organisation’s spend, while […]
How I learn: Claire Walsh
As part of TrainingZone’s CPD month we are asking training professionals to share how they learn. Here Claire Walsh shares how she keeps up-to-date with the latest thinking in learning and development. As people who earn a living sharing and transferring knowledge it is essential that trainers and other learning and development professionals keep up-to-date […]
Trainers: the classroom is not dead
Although the use of technology-based learning and development tools is continuing to rise steadily, classroom-based activities remain the most popular training format. According to a survey undertaken among 2,500 employees at companies in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain by learning and development provider Cegos Group, nine out of 10 still receive training in […]
How to set goals and meet them
First set the goal, then create and plan for achieving it and then execute the action points. Robert Kelsey has a strategy for all of this. Read on… Not so fast. Each area requires proper thought if it’s to provide effective support for the others. This is even the case for the objectives. For instance, […]
Top ten tips to motivate yourself
Stephen Walker sympathises with the providers in the training sector struggling with the challenging business conditions. Here he gives his top ten tips for keeping focused, optimistic and motivated. There is no doubt that business conditions in the training sector are tough today. Business is there to be won but it is […]
How L&D professionals and social search technology can work together
Simeon Stewart discusses a new social technology, social search, and looks at how L&D professionals can harness it in order to further differentiate their offering and provide greater benefits to their clients. In the first article of this series we looked at how search and L&D face the common problems of information overload and an […]
Social Search: A technology match for L&D?
Simeon Stewart discusses a new social technology, social search, and looks at why it might be an appropriate tool for learning and development. Several commentators point to the challenges information overload and the increasing rate of change present to formal training, something that was referred to just recently when we interviewed Charles Jennings, ex CLO […]
20% of staff receive no training evaluation
Although nearly three quarters of staff consider learning and development opportunities to be as important as salary when choosing their next job, more than half are currently receiving no training from their employer. According to a survey of 700 learning and development managers and staff within both commercial and IT departments undertaken by training provider […]
Reed Learning partners with ASTD to deliver training certification
Reed Learning has launched its UK partnership with the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD). Although the official announcement will not come until next month, a breakfast briefing held in London on 17 February confirmed the move, which has been interpreted by some as a challenge to the CIPD for their members who work […]
