Insights

Ten Steps to Building a Great Learning Environment

Blog post from the LSG Online Conference Presentation on 26th June 2011. This is a summary of many of the great points included in the chat box where there were several hundred comments, together with the ten key steps that formed the back bone of the session. There were too many people making great contributions
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Learning Explosion

Here is a video that was made by Good Practice that takes up the ‘creating a learning explosion’ theme.
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New Business Models Lead to New Business

When Amanda Palmer (or Amanda F Palmer as she refers to herself) emailed me I got half interested.  She is rock musician in a couple of cultish new wavish bands and is based in New York. She told a little story. After her first album made no money at all for her, she quit her
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Embrace the new Order

When Ian Curtis sang. ‘radio, live transmission’ against the backdrop of a throbbing bass guitar, and ‘dance, dance, dance, dance to the radio’ at the song’s crescendo on Joy Division’s first single, released in 1979, it was a hymn to the ubiquitous power and one way control of that medium.  The band did not own
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Innovation Rules!

I have been thinking a lot about what constitutes a great place to work. It is not just salary or perks or colleagues. For a long time, at least since Robert Levering’s 1988 book A Great Place to Work: What Makes Some Employers Good – and Most So Bad, we have known that it’s more
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Creativity, Imagination and Innovation

Ken Robinson links all three and turns his focus to the workplace in an excellent 8 minute video:  
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Brightwave Conference: 18th June 2012 Edinburgh

Why innovation is no luxury in Corporate Learning.
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We All Live in a Kind of Submarine…

I spent some time with a submariner recently. But he wouldn’t put it like that.  He sails boats, but not surface boats. And he talk about life at the bottom of the ocean, and I thought he made ten really good points about workplaces that we could all learn from. 1. Team work rules supreme.
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Where Are We With Technology

Learning and development is undergoing dramatic shifts – the workforce is changing and so are the ways workers access and use knowledge. Does your LMS meet new technology and business expectations? How should L&D functions respond, and what role should learning management systems play? – Brandon Hall Since the global financial crisis, corporate learning and
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Learning Perspectives 2011

eBook – The Masie Center “Welcome to our latest eBook, Learning Perspectives 2011. We are publishing this book in conjunction with Learning 2011 to extend the conversation about the future of learning and reflect on a wide range of views and experiences. “This year, we’ve reached out to the 30 Under 30 Team for Learning
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