Trust or Bust – attracting and growing performance professionals
In his book (2006) The Speed of Trust, Stephen M R Covey draws together a very convincing argument about how a high level of trust shared by organisational colleagues, management, clients, suppliers...
View ArticleKnow-how: leave a legacy!
The most recent Learning Cafe Webinar focussed on finding, sharing and growing internal expertise. Some of the discussion was about knowledge sharing and it made me reflect on an approach I used some...
View ArticleThe disillusionment of training
The Freedictionary provides the following description of disillusionment; “having lost one’s ideals, illusions, or false ideas about someone or something; disenchanted” I’ve been spending a lot of...
View ArticleFind the need, demonstrate the value
In order to understand a tool, you have to use it. In order to understand its value you have to apply its use to something to see whether it improves a task or an issue. Until you do this it is just a...
View ArticleShare and prosper!
We work in teams within organisations and organisations form part of a larger community of suppliers, distributors and customers. In the past, and there continues to be, some great examples of...
View ArticleWARNING, social netWORK AHEAD
I’ve been reading with interest recent articles and blog posts proclaiming that social practices won’t work in the enterprise. Posts such as ‘You ready to fail at social networking’ and the excellent...
View ArticleTrue Pioneer: William C Norris
With all the discussion we have about learning technologies, social networking and relevance to learning it’s worth spending a few minutes to reflect on, and be humbled by, the work of a man who, at...
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Do you have a Personal Development Plan?
Sat in a meeting room somewhere in Manchester my quarterly review was drawing to a close. It had been a good conversation, a chance to reflect on the last few months, the trials and tribulations of a...
View ArticleWalk a mile in my shoes and Learning Councils
Have you heard the song “Walk a Mile in My Shoes”? It was a powerful song of the ’60s written by Joe South and covered by none other than Elvis Presley. The song was about prejudice, racism and an...
View ArticleFortitude – the mix of intuition, courage and boldness
When asked to develop a learning program we are often provided, initially at least, with three pieces of information. The context is usually provided and you know the typical scenarios . . . “we need...
View ArticlexAPI/TinCan@work – A collaborative exploration by Asiapac organisations
TinCan/xAPI the new learning standards that make 70:20:10/ Performance Support/ Personal Learning Records feasible. It is the successor of SCORM 2004/1.2 but promises so much more. TinCan or more...
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