Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Learning professionals have always known that they should be measuring the output of their interventions in terms of business performance, but in easier times (in other words before October 2008) there was very little external pressure on them to do so.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 10, 2013

12% of organisations say compliance training is helping achieve their business goal of changing working culture. 23% of businesses are raising awareness and understanding of complex regulations with compliance training. Here are some of the findings, based on responses from 136 organisations representing 2.3m

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

We’ll help you achieve those business benefits by focusing on the choices your people make every day. This is why we’re in business." As the website says: "At Saffron we like to do things a little differently. The people at Saffron are passionate about learning. We wish them every success.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 29, 2011

Bupa Live originated as a business project at the very top of the organisation, with the aim of ‘creating one Bupa’ across the global business. For each persona they develop ‘user stories’ which express in the everyday or business language of the user what it is that the user wants to achieve.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

So, what was once a very localised business could become centralised and a star system could begin to operate, as in films, TV, books and sports. The top players get most of the business (or at least most of the money) and attract celebrity status. then their services are likely to become affordable.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 26, 2011

I'll give you Daniel's 'cocktail party summary': When it comes to motivation, there’s a gap between what science knows and what business does. Our current business operating system—which is built around external, carrot-and-stick motivators—doesn’t work and often does harm. It seems the science simply doesn't support this.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2010

It’s stuffed with pragmatic wisdom for anybody thinking of starting their own small business. Unless you’re a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy. All I know is that I wish I’d had this book before I’d spent the last 27 years working in small businesses rather than in hindsight.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Charles describes this as a ‘conspiracy of convenience’: performance analysis is not done or done poorly; business managers want ‘training’; training managers deliver it; no-one measures it. The group set out four key challenges: To build a world-class l&d service more closely aligned with business strategy and priorities.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2010

Less than 18% agree that l&d is aligned with business Now I haven't seen this research in any detail, so I don't know how objective these results really are. L&d requires strong and assertive leadership, like any other business function. Apparently this showed that: 70% see inadequate staff skills as a barrier to growth.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2011

But when we think about page/screen-based, tutorial e-learning, there really are no mass media parallels, unless of course you count business presentations, and in most cases they set a very poor example. And even when it comes to learning sims, we can relate what we see to our experiences with video games.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 27, 2012

With regard to your Twitter campaign, she advises that you "post at least once a business day for at least two weeks before each webinar." Sharon certainly believes in promotion. Even then "Understand that 50% of your signups won’t attend the live webinar."

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If learning is not aligned to business need (and the needs of employees) then it is much more than useless, it is positively harmful. One is that they haven't taken the trouble to find out where the business is going and to determine, as a result, the competencies that will be required.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2011

He is worried because this company used their own proprietary development tool and, if they were to go out of business, there would be no way to maintain the content. Your client has heard some rumours that the company who developed the e-learning is experiencing some financial problems. What would you recommend?

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Clive on Learning

JULY 2, 2018

You want to show senior managers in an engineering company discussing a business strategy. Your concern is that, if you major on gender equality, showing women in positions that they rarely occupy in real life, but which they are perfectly capable of performing, then your content loses credibility. You might turn off some of your audience.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 12, 2013

And I wouldn''t want blind compliance either - that''s no way in which to run a modern business. I''d want my employees to care about these issues and behave accordingly. And that requires a very different approach to training that you normally find with compliance training.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 14, 2013

Well, it could be that, like so many people, I'm just too busy, but it's just as possible that my brain has re-wired to adjust to a change in behaviour brought about by the abundance of material that I just have to read. I can't remember the last time I sat down and properly studied any piece of non-fiction. Why is this?

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Clive on Learning

MAY 21, 2013

In this case, we''ll use an extract from The New Learning Architect : It is nothing new to be told that training should be aligned to the needs of the business, but that doesn''t mean that it ''goes without saying'' or is ''common sense''. All too often, common sense is anything but common.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

There is no question whatsoever that social media is transforming our personal and business lives. Anyway, this post provides me with an opportunity to clarify my thoughts in preparation for the discussion.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

I'm determined to make some sort of contribution to the process of transforming learning and development in the workplace and I'm extremely busy in doing that. I'm slowly but inevitably approaching the end of my working life and yet I've still got massive goals.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 29, 2011

Rob has achieved success by integrating formal and informal learning activities in pursuit of clear strategic business objectives. Managers within the business come to him knowing that he will look at each requirement on its own merits and come up with a solution that is right for the job. No way will Rob ever be an order taker.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Rob has achieved success by integrating formal and informal learning activities in pursuit of clear strategic business objectives. Managers within the business come to him knowing that he will look at each requirement on its own merits and come up with a solution that is right for the job. No way will Rob ever be an order taker.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 13, 2010

and, as UK partner to Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP), he told me about the improvements which being made to their ManageMentor suite. And 150+ new videos bring real-world context through stories from Harvard Business School faculty, industry executives and emerging leaders."

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 6, 2013

There''s no doubt that L&D is shifting, in some cases because new L&D managers have got the message and are making change happen, and in other cases because of pressure from the business. But this process is being held back by a widespread deficiency of skills and confidence among the profession as a whole.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 28, 2013

Currently, skills development is a labour-intensive and very costly business, typically involving a great deal of face-to-face contact with a trainer or coach. Some individuals, some organisations, some countries have been able to afford this and will be able to sustain this investment even in a harsh economic climate.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

How the downturn affects the behaviour of Gen Y What it’s like to be a learner today The pros and cons of a linear progression through content as opposed to random access How necessity is once again proving to be the mother of invention That blogging is journalism That Twitter is only incidentally a learning tool That exercise boosts brain power Relationships (..)

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 10, 2010

Harvard Business Press, 2009) by Martin Baker from LM Matters. I was recently given a copy of Andrew McAfee’s Enterprise 2.0 I sat down to skim read it on the train – the one hour trip from London to Brighton is usually enough.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 13, 2012

Games and simulations As a form of guided discovery learning, allowing learners to gain insights into problem-solving and decision-making principles, e.g. project management, business strategy, marketing. As a way for learners to explore complex principles and processes, e.g. economics, physics.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2011

This is a right first time business. Because requirements change and audiences change for perfectly valid business reasons. It is unbelievably expensive and sometimes completely impractical to go back and re-shoot a scene that didn't turn out right. It hardly ever happens. Sometimes they come from learners.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Employees don't see online support materials as tools for learning, just business as usual. To be honest, when you're working outside the domain of formal courses, I wouldn't use terms like 'learning' at all, and certainly not 'learner journeys'. If they do learn something for the long term then that's a fortunate secondary result.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 26, 2010

Perhaps for some students, but are these the people you'd want to imbue with business skills. Doesn't that apply to business studies? The other aspect of this story which I find unsettling is the idea that it is a step forward to pre-load content rather than accessing it online.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

You'll definitely need to know about the nature of the business need, what requirement there is, if any, for learning and of what type, the characteristics of the target population, and the practical constraints such as time and budget. If you've done your preparation right, you'll know what questions to ask.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2010

This is allowing most of those working in e-learning to maintain business as usual and in some cases to grow their revenues. Here's my interpretation: Live, group, face-to-face courses are being converted lock, stock and barrel into self-paced, self-directed, online courses as a panic solution to a lack of funds.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 14, 2009

Kineo and learndirect business have got together to produce the Learning Technologies Green Room , where you will find all sorts of e-learning people involved with this year's Learning Technology conference busy finishing their PowerPoint slides and generally fretting about what they can say that's different to last year.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 20, 2009

Apart from bespoke content development, which tends to be more of a localised business, all the other categories are for world-wide sales. This makes sense given that most e-learning products are the same across the globe, many of the largest transactions are with multinationals, and few suppliers are able to provide figures by market.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 21, 2011

Julie described a retail case in which an l&d department, by providing an effective service as content curators, came to be seen as much central to the day-to-day life of the business. Employees were able to learn well on the job. They did find time. How do I see the role of curator?

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

I will be taking part in three sessions: Thursday at 11.45: Delivering more for less in business Thursday at 16.30: Compliance training – the kiss of death for corporate e-learning? Next week I am off to Online Educa 2009 in Berlin.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Business as usual. Similarly, the use of desktop tools to develop e-learning would have been an extension of traditional practice as would the convention of delivering a finished product to an LMS. Which sort of made sense before the World Wide Web. Web pages, as we all know, do not have fixed widths or heights.

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