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. MORE
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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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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! MORE
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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. MORE
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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 MORE
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. MORE
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). MORE
Also learners may well be accessing the learning in situation where they might get interrupted e.g. the train arrives or the boarding call for the plane goes out. The nature of using a mobile device for learning is that you’re likely to get interrupted – after all phones were designed primarily to be for phone calls (and are used primarily for text messages ). MORE
e-learning training Last Friday I went to an excellent session of the Trainers and Developers Network led by Catherine Shepherd. MORE
Waiting for a train/ plane. As people in business become ever more time-pressured, it’s harder for L&D to reach them with them with content that is useful. Mobile offers the opportunity to reach people in situations where they can’t/ don’t want to use their PC/ laptop. MORE
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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. MORE
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?” MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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.” MORE
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e-learning training At this year’s Learning Technologies show I’ve been invited by the eLearning Network to do a slot on ‘Ask the Expert’ about instructional design. MORE
e-learning trainingAn update on a post about learning objectives which attracted a healthy amount of support and debate: refinements to that position and what it means in practice for learning designers. One of the richest compilations of high quality thinking is Will Thalheimer’s. MORE
accountancy legal training A really thought-provoking article by Ralf Dobelli (based on a longer essay) about information overload and in particular, news. MORE
” 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. MORE
At first blush it feels like an L&D department with expertise in training should be doing more training. accountancy e-learning legal training MORE
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 . MORE
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 MORE
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