How many trainers does it take to change a lightbulb? 3 – one to tell you what to do, one to demonstrate it, one to evaluate it afterwards. What do you call an auditory/visual learner? Anything you like, they’re not kinsthetic so won’t feel it anyway. Why did the trainee cross the road? To avoid… Read More Learning’s a funny thing
This week I’ll be co-facilitating a session on this subject with the fabulous Naureen Wilson for Learning Pool. Our audience is a group of other L&D practitioners and the crux of the session is to highlight how (and why) we need to be supporting learners in pulling learning, rather than us in L&D constantly pushing content. I’m really looking forward to… Read More Changing the Learner Mindset
Following my last post, I’ve summarised the remaining 5 tools for learning and why I use them. Google Reader I heard something a bit scary a while ago; that people who work in L&D keep up to speed with current thinking by going to meetings and waiting for CIPD survey results. I actucally found an… Read More My Learning Tools for 2012 – 2
I listed my top 10 learning tools the other day. In this post and the next I’d like to share why I think they’re top tools for learning. Evernote Of all the tools I’ve adopted over the last few years, this one has changed the way I work (and think about the way I work)… Read More My Learning Tools for 2012 – 1
I’m always impressed with the results from the excellent C4LPT survey of learning tools. It forces me to look at my practice to see if I’m trying new things, and also shows me a range of tools that I may not have encountered before. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If… Read More Top 100 Learning Tools
Lost and Desperate 