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Talent management myths and facts
From the Coleface
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
e-learning training Last Friday I went to an excellent session of the Trainers and Developers Network led by Catherine Shepherd.
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e-learning professionals “the cobbler’s children with no shoes”
From the Coleface
DECEMBER 24, 2014
At first blush it feels like an L&D department with expertise in training should be doing more training. accountancy e-learning legal training
Escaping from the compliance e-learning cul-de-sac
From the Coleface
OCTOBER 29, 2015
p19: 29% see their in-house e-learning as synonymous with compliance training – they are in “the compliance e-learning cul-de-sac” p20: Targeting learning by job role. Useful checklist: “How can we make compliance training more relevant to individuals?”
Is this compliance story too close to home?
From the Coleface
AUGUST 4, 2014
If comfortable for this incident to be referred to on a training course or in a face to face presentation, why not in e-learning? accountancy e-learning legal training Learners are used to compliance e-learning.
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How professionals learn
From the Coleface
NOVEMBER 23, 2009
accountancy e-learning legal trainingIn the November Issue of TJ , Des Woods and Henry Marsden have an article called “How professionals learn” As the former head of learning at Ernst & Young and head of professional development at Linklaters, Des is writing from considerable experience. This is a great article if you are relatively new to professional services in your L&D career, especially if you’ve worked in a different industry previously.
So does Linkedin really work?
From the Coleface
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
As an independent L&D consultant who has expertise in face to face training, e-learning and happens to be a Chartered Accountant with digital marketing experience, Linkedin allows people who are looking for my skillset to find me.
5 free technology tools for trainers to enhance face to face training
From the Coleface
APRIL 2, 2012
But when used appropriately technology can enhance what happens in the training room (and afterwards). Whenever you use a role play in training this could replace it. trainingFace to face trainers often see technology as threat or replacement of the face to face experience. At the eLearning Network event “A fresh look at elearning”, Julie Wedgwood demonstrated five tools which have great potential and they’re free!
Why the time is right for self-managed learning
From the Coleface
MAY 31, 2017
e-learning trainingIn 1990 Peter Senge published “ The Fifth Discipline ” , giving a compelling vision of how companies could transform into learning organisations. The ideas chime with many L&D professionals, but adoption by business has been patchy.
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Five more ingredients for compliance e-learning excellence
From the Coleface
OCTOBER 16, 2016
accountancy e-learning legal trainingOnce again I had the privilege to judge the e-learning awards (now called the Learning Technology Awards). When I last judged the compliance category two years ago I wrote Five ingredients for compliance e-learning excellence .
Let’s focus on the learning (with a little help from Cynefin)
From the Coleface
JUNE 15, 2016
Formal: Simulations, face to face training. ” accountancy e-learning legal trainingI enjoyed a day out at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum yesterday. Like many conferences, there was no shortage of vendors trying to broadcast how their offering is the panacea to organisations’ performance problems.
Research says that whatever I say next will be a whopping lie
From the Coleface
MARCH 11, 2015
” e-learning training Over 15 years of working in L&D (and a dose of studying philosophy of science at university) makes me very alert to the phrase “research says” It is usually followed by an unsubstantiated claim.
The pitfalls of selling content online – five questions that training companies should ask
From the Coleface
JULY 30, 2015
Imagine you are running a training company that has successfully carved out a niche. You’re selling lots of training courses and it’s only capacity that is stopping you from selling more. One day you realise that you could increase reach, lock out competitors and reduce cost of sales if you put some of the training online. Here are five questions that I find many training companies in this situation have failed to ask. e-learning training
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How well do you really know your learners?
From the Coleface
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
accountancy e-learning legal training
Happy season
From the Coleface
DECEMBER 24, 2013
He demurred and said that the biggest emotion had been relief – he and Steve Redgrave believed that they were best in the world and had trained so hard that even if they had a bad day they would still win. training
Is praise better behind closed doors?
From the Coleface
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
training Lucy Kellaway’s recent article in the FT “Compliments are always best made behind closed doors” challenges the conventional wisdom that workplace praise is best given in public and criticism in private.
Curation 101
From the Coleface
JUNE 25, 2013
accountancy e-learning legal training Just when you thought you had enough e-learning buzzwords, curation came along. For those who like definitions “ Content Curation is the act of discovering, gathering, and presenting digital content that surrounds specific subject matter.”
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Learning Science Laundering
From the Coleface
JUNE 10, 2013
e-learning training When I’m explaining to non L&D people what I do, one thing they commonly say is “Oh yes, e-learning.
Chain of fools
From the Coleface
MAY 9, 2013
” e-learning training I chose the title for this blogpost because I like the tune , not because I wanted to offend… Anyway, here’s a chain of events that’s been played out in hundreds of organisations.
News is bad for you
From the Coleface
APRIL 19, 2013
accountancy legal training A really thought-provoking article by Ralf Dobelli (based on a longer essay) about information overload and in particular, news.
Did you get potatoes in your stocking?
From the Coleface
JANUARY 10, 2013
trainingNow that the festive season is becoming a distant memory and the kids are back at school, the magic fabric of Christmas has begun to fray a bit in the Cole household. And I admit, I’m to blame.
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What a fantastic widget!
From the Coleface
JANUARY 24, 2013
lets you get the train time you have looked up straight into Outlook with just the click of a button. You may have noticed that more and more websites are allowing you to download appointments into your calendar e.g. www.nationalrail.co.uk
Tricks of the trade for instructional design
From the Coleface
AUGUST 30, 2012
e-learning trainingOne of the best things about working in instructional design is that you get to work with a variety of organisations and ask some of their smartest people about the tricks of their trade e.g. What does best practice look like? What are the common pitfalls?
Professional services e-learning forum achieves ten
From the Coleface
JULY 4, 2014
When I was a training manager at a Big Four accountancy firm, I found it bizarre that L&D people in professional services firms did not get together more to compare notes about their challenges and successes when they have so much in common. 7 th July sees the 10 th meeting of the Professional services e-learning forum, an informal networking and benchmarking group for L&D professionals working for the UK’s top 15 accountancy and top 15 law firms.
About me
From the Coleface
JUNE 29, 2012
As a former training manager at a Big Four accountancy firm, I know many of the pressures that you are under. Happily I make the time to read and surf publications about training and e-learning. Hi…welcome to From the Coleface, brought to you from sunny Sussex by Viv Cole.
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Is Enterprise search the answer to L&D’s interruption problem?
From the Coleface
JANUARY 22, 2014
Let’s start by recognising a problem inherent to the conventional model of L&D, which I call the “interruption problem” To access L&D’s services, a learner is taken out of their workflow to go to a training course, webinar or e-learning module. the Chairman mandates that everyone does customer service training). paying for off-site training or increasing the immersiveness and media treatment in e-learning).
How was your conference? How was the backchannel?
From the Coleface
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
e-learning trainingAt #learning live last week Don Taylor invited us to think about what’s the biggest change that we’ve seen in our experience of L&D. Zooming in on conferences, certainly one of the biggest changes that I’ve seen in the past couple of years is the introduction of a “backchannel” which normally takes the form of a Twitter hashtag that participants are encouraged to use. This is a 10th to add to my 9 ways of designing better conferences.
Live online learning – ask the experts
From the Coleface
MAY 28, 2012
How effective is virtual classrooms training in comparison with traditional classroom training? e-learning trainingOn 30 May I’ll be chairing an eLearning Network webinar on Ten things you always wanted to know about live online learning but were afraid to ask. I’m pleased to introduce three expert practitioners Mike Collins of Directline @mikecollins007, Phil Green of Olignment @philipgreen and Matt Turner of Brightwave @LiveTimeLearn.
Pitfalls in mobile learning #1: Intimacy
From the Coleface
MAY 21, 2012
legal trainingAs new technologies emerge and then go mainstream, this provides L&D practitioners with new channels through which to connect with learners and enable them to improve performance. However on the way, some organisations will get in badly wrong. Step forward Havering Sixth Form College in Hornchurch. This Essex sixth form college has made into the papers for sending its A-level students “top revision tips” text messages. Click here for the full article.
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