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The Need to Adapt to the Speed of Change or Die: lessons for L&D from the retail industry

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As with the many bookshops that have been forced to close in the face of new entrants to the publishing and distribution market – Amazon and Apple – the retail music industry certainly saw what digitisation was doing.

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The Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award 2020

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Jay Cross was a deep thinker and a man of many talents, never resting on his past accomplishments, and this award is one way to keep pushing our professional fields and industries to find new and better ways to learn and work. Andrew Jacobs The Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award for 2020 is presented to Andrew Jacobs.

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Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award 2019

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Jay Cross was a deep thinker and a man of many talents, never resting on his past accomplishments, and this award is one way to keep pushing our professional fields and industries to find new and better ways to learn and work. Michelle helps to inform the industry through her public speaking and workshops.

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What Does the Training Department Do When Training Doesn’t Work?

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The global training industry is large and in growth again post-2008. Data provided by the US membership organisation Training Industry suggests annual growth around 6% per year since 2009. Although the Training Industry and ASTD figures vary a little it is clear that the global training industry is a large and apparently healthy one.

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Compliance Training: does it really work?

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In highly regulated industries even more so. Until relatively recently I’d always bought into the argument that organising regulatory and compliance training is one of the important and necessary tasks for an L&D department. Every organisation has compliance and regulatory requirements it needs to meet.

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Exploiting The Link Between Employee Development & Customer Engagement

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This post is adapted from a commentary written for the Spark Interactive / ClerkWell 2012 Digital Customer Experience Report – an annual industry report that focuses on customer engagement and how businesses are using digital means to build closer relationships and interact with their consumers.

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The Driving Test: the canary in the mine for formal training?

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Already technology is being used to help ramp-up the formal driver training industry boom (the photo on the right is illustrative of this). The question this raises is ‘why would we encourage the development of a training industry using methods that have been shown to be ineffective in the past?’