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Spot the difference? Corporate L&D versus Office Canteen

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Return on investment: Can we show how the activities of the canteen drive business metrics or make a contribution to the employee value proposition? Return on investment: Can we show how the activities of the canteen drive business metrics or make a contribution to the employee value proposition?

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So why does your organization want a Learning Experience Platform (LXP)?

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Identify organizational learning needs – Whilst you probably already do regular organisation-wide surveys and targeted activities to identify needs, the search terms in your LXP will give you a new ongoing source of data which you can harvest without having to ask the business to give you more of their time.

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Why the time is right for self-managed learning

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Online development activities. Advice and practice activities for core management skills. Personal Learning Record. Templates to help people capture learning, set goals, distil feedback and deal with typical career challenges.

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Social media – big in 2010 for L&D…or not

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The key question for any organisation/ L&D department planning to use social media as a key part of its learning mix is: “Why do you think the passive recipients will feel motivated to become active recipients?” Take a moment to think about what motivates people to use social media in their personal lives.

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Happy sheets and comfort zones

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He compares the feedback that’s had from 3 types of session that he’s run, a standard presentation, a set of stories and a facilitated discussion actively involving participants. So why do participants rate a facilitor more highly if they don’t have to be active? I think part of this comes down to comfort zones.

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What is social learning?

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For formal learning, social media can be used to enhance/ replace existing activities that happen before, during and after a training or e-learning event. Initially users will only be able to rate content, but over time people and culture are hoped to evolve to the point where people are being more active contributors.

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9 ways to design better conferences

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Periodic attempts to vary the diet of activities e.g. work in subgroups tended to fail as the fixed layout of the lecture theatre made it difficult for people to have face to face discussions. Have a brief closing activity where people think about and share what they’re planning to put into practice as a result of the event.