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learning by David JamesMar 14, 20177:30 amMarch 14, 2017
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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 […]

learning by David JamesFeb 28, 20177:43 am
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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 […]

learning by David JamesJan 24, 20177:51 amFebruary 7, 2017
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Digital L&D pt 1: Beyond e-Learning

I’ve been in Learning & Development since the popularisation of e-learning in the late-1990s. Back then, it would be ordered from a paper catalogue and arrive through the post on discs! I so wanted every disc […]

learning by David JamesJan 24, 20177:50 amFebruary 15, 2017
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Digital L&D pt 2: Resources Before Courses

As Director of Talent, Learning & OD at Disney, I learned that I wasn’t actually accountable for Learning. I was not charged with embedding, accelerating or transferring learning. At a time of huge shifts in […]

learning by David JamesJan 24, 20177:50 amJanuary 24, 2017
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Digital L&D pt 3: How To Run A Resources-First Initiative

‘Resources-first’ describes the approach of tackling employee performance and capability issues with digital resources, addressing specific work challenges for distinct employee groups, accompanied by supplementary activities (which may include a face-to-face or educational element… or […]

learning by David JamesJan 24, 20177:50 amJanuary 25, 2017
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Digital L&D pt 4: What Happens To Classroom Training With ‘Resources-First’?

If you’re supporting workers in the workflow with context-specific resources, based on what your organisation’s internal ‘experts’ know and do, then classroom events take on a very different role to before. But what role should […]

learning by David JamesNov 30, 20168:00 amJanuary 23, 2017
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Digital Curation: An Essential Skill-Set For L&D In The 21st Century

“Curation replaces noise with clarity. And it’s the clarity of your choosing; it’s the things that people you trust help you find. We [L&D] need to be the people that organizations trust to help replace […]

learning by David JamesNov 15, 20168:00 amNovember 14, 2016
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Preparing Your Managers Before They Start Managing Your People

How soon after promotion does your company start formally developing managers? After a few weeks? A few months? Ideally you’d catch them on Day One, right? Unfortunately, the reality is far from the ideal. I’ve […]

digital by David JamesOct 26, 20168:46 amOctober 28, 2016
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5 Tips for taking the pain out of Compliance Training

Let’s be honest, the best compliment any worker has ever given to compliance training was probably along the lines of: “That wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.” Perhaps it could be likened […]

learning by David JamesOct 5, 20167:16 amOctober 31, 2016
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The LMS “Manages Learners” But Business Needs More

Do people only ever complain about their learning management system (LMS)? It seems that the excitement and anticipation before the LMS arrives is fan-fared with bold exclamations of its all-encompassing functionality: “It does everything! There […]

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