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Profile of a learning architect: Rob Bartlett

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Formal programmes Three programmes dominate the formal schedule: The lending essentials programme : This takes employees from day 1 to 18 months and covers all credit and customer service policies. Each new employee is supported through the programme by a team of mentors.

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The vision: 1. Learning and development that is aligned

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It is not up to l&d professionals to decide what is good leadership, what is good customer service or what are appropriate values for the organisation. No organisation ever set up an l&d department so this department could then determine the direction for the organisation.

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Portrait of a learning architect: Rob Bartlett

Clive on Learning

Formal programmes Three programmes dominate the formal schedule: The lending essentials programme : This takes employees from day 1 to 18 months and covers all credit and customer service policies. Each new employee is supported through the programme by a team of mentors.

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It's not enough to be a professional, you also have to act like one

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You'd like a 6-hour e-learning package to train customer service staff to sell over the telephone? A 2-day workshop to teach all aspects of a new company system to all employees, regardless of whether or not they will be using it? A one-hour podcast to teach manual handling skills?

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Synchronous e-learning myths #3: Just more death by PowerPoint

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Ron Edwards of Ambient Performance showed how sales and customer service role plays could be conducted with great realism in Forterra. Brian Bishop of Caspian Learning , showed how Teletech@Home used web conferencing to run highly authentic role plays for call centre operators based at home.

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Is training an investment?

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Let's leave aside for a minute the accounting argument about what actually constitutes an investment, and just use the term in its everyday sense.

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In-house, out-house, that old question

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The problem is that your full-time e-learning team will be a monopoly supplier - and we know that doesn't always lead to the best customer service - and that, when it comes to the cuts (as it always does), that team is never going to be regarded as core to the business.