Rob Hubbard

DECEMBER 10, 2015

What is the business problem you are trying to solve and what effect will this have on your organisation’s mission as a whole? If you can go to your organisation with concrete proof of the way digital learning can have a substantially positive effect on overall business performance, that’s a very powerful argument.

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Rob Hubbard

MARCH 31, 2016

This enables the business to be very agile in learning delivery and to respond to rapidly changing business environments effectively. Breaking the learning down in this way makes it more convenient for learners to access it on-the-go at their own convenience. Because microlearning is, by definition small. Spaced repetition.

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Rob Hubbard

APRIL 17, 2013

These can be used to encourage innovation within an organisation and tackle real business problems. Include a like / unlike function so that the more useful resources can be identified and those less so, weeded out. Identify organisational challenges for people to generate ideas around.

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Rob Hubbard

JUNE 23, 2017

This point is important and has the potential to transform your role from a training shop into a strategic partner for the business. Where possible align with your organisation’s strategic goals. Don’t get distracted by fancy technology.

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Rob Hubbard

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

As LAS celebrate 10 years in business I find myself thinking back to what has changed over that time, what hasn’t, and what the future may hold. Now that more work and more learning is done socially the logical next step is to start harnessing the collective intelligence within organisations for specific business purposes.

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Rob Hubbard

JANUARY 13, 2016

Prototype early and at low cost to mitigate risk and to build your business case. Hook into what people are already doing – there may not always be a need to reinvent the wheel, it may be that small adaptations are all that’s needed to produce the desired behaviours. Prototype – this one is really important. Talk to your people as humans.

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Rob Hubbard

JUNE 7, 2016

This might be via a business simulation or a realistic scenario. So what lessons can we take from behavioural economics when designing digital learning? Context is important – learners make decisions comparatively and relatively, so it is vital that the learning is put into context.

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Rob Hubbard

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

We are all busy people with 1001 things on our to-do lists. I believe that what happens after a learning intervention (be it workshop, webinar, elearning course or whatever) is even more important than what happens during the intervention. We need help in putting new skills into practice.

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Rob Hubbard

JULY 13, 2016

Digital learning is ideal, as time out of the business is minimised and it is cheaper to deliver than F2F learning. This is not the time for lengthy modules, but for bite-sized learning that is produced quickly, in order to respond to volatile conditions. The bite-sized learning must be closely aligned to organisation goals.

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Rob Hubbard

AUGUST 11, 2011

Cathy also advocates adding a measurable business or organisational goal to use as a focus for your efforts and a way to measure success. This allows you to filter through your source material and identify what will help people to change their behaviours and develop new skills.

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Rob Hubbard

APRIL 7, 2011

This means achieving the business goal or objective in the shortest time (both development time and learner time) for the least cost. Most of the projects we undertake (at LearningAge) are blended to some extent. The key to a good blend is to make it both effective and efficient.

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Rob Hubbard

APRIL 3, 2014

I’m an adult and learning is a serious business.”. In Learning and Development we also have the G-word, by which I mean “gamification”. The unrestrained use of this term tends to provoke strong reactions: “Games? My kids play games. What can a game teach me? Just tell me what I need to know!”.

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Rob Hubbard

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Interviews with people from around the business. …I Giving cameras to new starters and asking them to shoot a two-minute video on an aspect of the organisation. Creating interactive video where objects and people in the video can be clicked on to launch more media. Tours of premises. I could go on.

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Rob Hubbard

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As Clive points out, this could turn out to be the most significant form of learning for the future if organisations can overcome their fears that allowing access to social learning on-demand will distract from the business at hand.

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Rob Hubbard

JUNE 29, 2011

We need to give our learners more support in making this transition from theory into practice into ‘business as usual’. Everyone is familiar with the scenario of going to a great training course, coming away all fired up and full of plans for what we’ll implement, then putting the folder up in the shelf and forgetting about it.

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Rob Hubbard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

It also lets me run my business from my iPhone if i need to. People in my wider network usually contact me by phone, Twitter or LinkedIn but not Facebook – I keep that for personal use. All this technology is either free or very cheap and enables collaboration between our globally-based team and clients.

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Rob Hubbard

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Onboarding is an awful term, it’s so ‘business-speak’ that it makes me cringe, but the principles behind it are very sound and done right it can improve the time it takes new employees to get up to speed, increase productivity and have a very positive effect on morale and retention.

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Rob Hubbard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As a father to young kids and a business-owner, I know we can’t always choose to have a good night’s sleep or whether or not we are stressed. Sleep, stress and exercise all have a great impact on our abilities to be creative. If you’re tired and stressed-out it makes it harder to be creative. Fortunately, I have an antidote – exercise.

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Rob Hubbard

MARCH 7, 2016

In getting to know your audience and accurately assessing the business need, you really need to be able to put your own assumptions and prejudices to one side and really look at the shape of what is there. This a great metaphorical technique for the research phase of any digital learning project.

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Rob Hubbard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

And I don’t just mean development time and cost, consider the time-cost to the business of users going through the course and learning nothing. Instructional design can make the difference between a rapid elearning course meeting the training need for which it was designed or being an enormous waste of time and resources.

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Rob Hubbard

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

They immediately saw the potential in the approach to solve their business issue of how best to train all their Booksellers on selling the Kindle range. The Solution. Waterstones knew of our work with University of Cambridge and had already seen our goal-based systems.

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Rob Hubbard

OCTOBER 3, 2012

If you really took that seriously, you would end up rethinking all aspects of the company from operations, how you design the organisation, even what kind of business strategy you would pursue, and certainly what kind of technology platforms you would use to support them in their work environments.”.

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Rob Hubbard

AUGUST 11, 2011

Fitting this additional work in around running a busy pub meant it took her several months. The pub sign was renewed, a smart new brass brewer’s plaque added next to the entrance and everything given a new coat of paint. She took great care and attention with the work and now the pub looks as smart as a new pin.

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