by admin | May 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
Instructional design is not only seen as a core competency for learning and development/training specialists, but it’s a huge industry, too. Most learning vendors tout their ‘expertise in instructional design’ as a key reason as to why we should engage them to produce...
by admin | May 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
This post appeared on the TrainingZone.co.uk site last month. I’ve re-posted it here for people who don’t choose to register on the TZ website. —————————— Charles Jennings argues that the adage...
by admin | Apr 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
Very few of us would argue with the proposition that a lot of organisational learning and development activity is sub-optimal to the extent that it provides little value to participants and their organisations. Even in organisations where L&D priorities are...
by admin | Dec 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
There is an argument that we all need to learn less if we want to know more. The ‘learning’ referred to here is what we know as formal structured learning activities – classes, courses, programmes, and eLearning. The argument goes like this. Although formal...
by admin | Dec 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
Trust is very important in our lives. As children we put our trust in our parents. As we grew we learned to make decisions regarding when we should trust and when we should be more circumspect. When we start a new job or project we spend time figuring out who we can...