It’s not about us. It’s about them but we need to be more creative and practical in how fix company induction to support new starters to perform.
Category: learning
Are shorter attention spans hampering your best efforts in L&D?
Despite the headlines, attention spans are not reducing but perhaps tolerance for workplace learning offerings is?
What motivates people to learn online at work?
What motivates people to learn online at work? Knowing the answer will dictate your approach to digital L&D.
10 Years Of The iPhone And L&D Has Some Learning To Do
Rather than using technology to scale L&D initiatives, what can be learned from the success of the iPhone in finding new ways of helping workers to do what they want to do, better?
Leading Away From Face-To-Face Training Towards Self-Directed Learning
If, like many of your L&D peers, employees in your organisation tell you they prefer classroom training, it’s important to understand their preference in relation to the perceived alternatives. I say this because I don’t […]
The ‘Less-Time/Better-Results’ Induction
Anybody who’s delivered Induction programmes before will know that, far too often, they’re packed full of content that new starters couldn’t possibly remember. Organisations seem intent on overwhelming new starters with everything they need them […]
What Is L&D For In This Day And Age?
This question was posed to me by Sukh Pabial (@SukhPabial) recently, following a blog he wrote, Adapting, Change and L&D, and a subsequent Twitter exchange. Sukh finished this blog by expressing: “L&D is fundamentally broken […]
The Secret to Learning at the Point-of-Need
*The secret*: ‘Learning’ is rarely (if ever) required at the point-of-need. Instead, answers, support, insights or guidance are more likely to be needed. To make the distinction, ‘learning’ (in the context of work) is often […]
How Do We Get Employees To Adopt Technology For Learning?
Classroom training can seem like a real treat. Especially when we consider that more than 3 quarters of people haven’t attended a course in the last two years. But if they’re not attending courses (even […]
Why the Learning Needs Analysis (LNA) has us all working on the wrong things
Just to qualify the title of this post, we (as L&D) might be working in the right direction as a result of our LNA but when individual performance and capability needs are aggregated into common […]