I had a good day last week with a session I run called employee development centre. The session isn’t your usual workshop or class; the contents of the day are entirely directed by the participants from pre event activity. Beforehand, they have a number of areas to reflect on and are asked a range of… Read More Learner Portfolio
I saw this article on TeachThought the other day and thought it would be an interesting exercise to reflect it in the corporate world of L&D. Some of the titles don’t tally so I’ve substituted as appropriate. I was surprised that it led to more questions… Don’t measure everything The tone in the piece is… Read More 5 Simple ideas to transform your learning function
I had a great experience this week, I did a bit of old-school ‘training’ to a ‘group’ in a ‘workshop’. I hadn’t thought about it but someone reminded me that this came almost a week after I’d been presenting about changing learner mindsets and, there I was, doing what I did 20 years ago. Even if… Read More I want to tell you a story
The UK was in recession, the pound had crumbled and I’d started working in L&D. If I knew now what I knew then, what would I be telling myself? Presentation is only part of the skill in helping people learn You’re a good presenter Andrew, but don’t assume that presenting in an informative and entertaining… Read More 20 years ago
I wrote the other day about how I was going to be presenting to a group of other L&D professionals; we really engaged with the group and I think it went well (see above). There were 3 key themes we wanted to address. Changing the trainer mindset We were incredibly lucky to have Barry Sampson… Read More Reflecting on a presentation
Lost and Desperate 