How can learners practise soft skills in a virtual world?
L&D will have to change to meet the ‘new normal’ skills gap.
Re-imagine, reconnect, realise: why purpose is essential to learning in the hybrid working world
As we shift gears into a new hybrid way of working, it’s time for us to reconnect with our purpose.
How to adapt your virtual learning strategy for a hybrid working future
It’s time to re-assess our virtual learning offering and ensure it’s fit for a hybrid future.
Six Lessons for Flex Working from Flex Learning
Flexible learning can teach us simple, powerful, and easily implementable lessons on flex-working. Flex work is an umbrella term used for several work arrangements, such as flexible work hours and remote working, etc., wherein employees are given greater freedom to schedule their work obligations. As an L&D practitioner and a strong proponent of flexible working, […]
THE FUTURE OF WORKPLACE LEARNING IS DIGITAL
There is no doubt the Covid-19 pandemic has changed our lives in lots of ways, and whilst we can all clearly see plenty of downsides, there are positives emerging, such as the profound impact it has had on learning and development (L&D) strategies. Revealing research Research from Fosway Group, Europe’s leading HR analyst, reveals how […]
Redesigning L&D for the new hybrid world of work
How to adapt workplace learning to add greater value in the new hybrid working environment.
Employee Wellbeing & Its Connection to Motivation
Old-fashioned workplace mindsets can sometimes encourage employees to push themselves as a means of showing that they’re working hard. In this perception, factors like skipping lunch, sleeping less and allowing workers to fully immerse themselves into their work proves that they’re more dedicated to their job role. However, in an age governed by the COVID-19 […]
10 tips for learning and development in a hybrid working world
Top ten tips for delivering training to hybrid workforces.
What Can Employers Do To Ensure Employee Welfare
As we hit the end of the first quarter of 2021, it’s safe to say that the impacts of the pandemic are still continuing to change the corporate landscape as we once knew it. As more businesses and their employees swap the city sky rises for their own home office, many are still adapting to […]
Training after Covid-19: will we remain online?
Many of us are drawn to the world of training because of the opportunities it offers to interact with other people in a positive and rewarding way. Until recently, the majority of those interactions were always ‘face-to-face’. Yet with the arrival of Covid-19, the traditional classroom training format was rendered impossible, or even illegal, almost […]
Four ways to drive learner engagement in a world of unknowns
Four key approaches that ensure learning is relevant and engaging for employees, no matter where or when they are learning.
How has Covid-19 impacted the way we develop graduates and apprentices?
What has the crisis has taught us about how to develop young graduates and apprentices?
5 Ways to Improve Your Remote Performance Reviews
Year-end performance reviews are stressful even in the best of times. Throw in a shift to remote work, a pandemic, and changing organizational priorities, and you have a recipe for difficulty, if not disaster. For many people, this will be the first time they’re participating in a remote performance review. However, while the setting might […]
How to give your L&D interventions a human edge in the flexible working era
How to transform your training strategies to fit the flexible working era.
Why gender equality relies on more learning and development for women
Women have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic, but learning could be just the tool to help them thrive again.
Big Picture Remote Training Exercise
Hi I am currently converting an existing course into a virtual format and would love to receive ideas on a big picture thinking exercise. We already include a video, an exercise on the 6 thinking hats and a couple of light-hearted short exercises on seeing things from a different perspective. I am looking for something […]
How a data-driven approach can create ruthlessly efficient learning experiences
How can evidence-based measures create ruthlessly relevant L&D initiatives?
Six critical components for success in virtual learning
Online learning is here to stay, but how can we make it more effective?
Training is Dead. Long Live Learning.
Ed Monk, CEO of the Learning and Performance Institute, of which I am a fellow, recently said, “Learning is now seen as important; its profile has been raised.” Learning is adaptability to change, and as the perceived rate of change accelerates, of course learning is important. The question that I have for you today is […]
Mastering virtual facilitation in 2021
How to improve your remote training offering going forward.