Rob Hubbard

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How to Build Agility into your Learning Design

Rob Hubbard

An idea that at first might seem too ‘out there’, can trigger another thought process that leads to some truly transformative functionality being designed into the product. Secondly, use collaborative tools like Google Drive, Basecamp and Mockflow to document, manage and design the product.

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The importance of learning in uncertain times

Rob Hubbard

Engaged employees have been found to be up to 43%* more productive and 87%** less likely to leave their organisation. Greater productivity, agility, a positive, goal-driven attitude and being able to hold on to your best people is exactly what is needed when it all gets VUCAed up.

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Stop Wasting Time: Designing Effective and Efficient Learning Systems

Rob Hubbard

The production of video, graphics and audio? For example; enter data into a system with zero errors, sell a product more effectively or manage a project to completion on time and within budget. What’s the biggest cost in any elearning or training programme? The instructional design time? The subject matter expert’s time?

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Case Study: Waterstones Academy – Goal-Based Learning for Booksellers

Rob Hubbard

With the introduction of the Kindle as a product range, there was a need to train booksellers on how to operate and sell these new devices, so that they could offer the best possible service to customers. Many retailers wanting to provide product training would opt for face-to-face training, or elearning courseware plus an LMS.

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How to be Innovative – 10 Top Tips

Rob Hubbard

Think about what kind of learning you’d like to see, be it products, theories or something completely different. Asking questions will help your ideas to crystallise. Don’t stop at the first answer either, as above, there are many different ways to answer the same question. Where is the gap?

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Onboarding the Blended Way

Rob Hubbard

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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Virtually there – VR AR World London

Rob Hubbard

They were more interested in sharing their enthusiasm for their products, many of which were at prototype stage, than making a sale. I took a trip down to London recently for AR VR (Augmented Reality Virtual Reality) World. It was a small affair with geeks rather than sales people manning most of the stands.