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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
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. MORE
” 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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
e-learning trainingGDPR is one of e-learning’s hot topics in 2018. Here’s a blog that I co-wrote with Brightwave’s Head of QA on how it will affect L&D managers when they have a breathing space from getting learning to their colleagues about GDPR. link]. MORE
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
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
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 MORE
accountancy e-learning legal trainingFor months I’ve been immersed in the zone where marketing and learning overlap – helping marketers become as confident and astute with digital media as they are with traditional media. Although Marketing and L&D departments tend to attract different types of people, in essence both roles involve communicating in a way that is designed to change people’s behaviour. MORE
accountancy e-learning legal trainingThe last 20 years has seen the evolution of terminology from Computer-Based Learning to e-learning to digital learning (and beyond). One term that has been static is SME (subject matter expert). Given how much the world and technology has changed in that time, is it time for a re-think? One Big Four firm has already started dropping SME as a term for internal L&D projects. MORE
e-learning trainingAs an experienced blended learning designer and judge of the e-learning Awards (recently rebranded as the Learning Technologies Awards), I was invited to appear on TV. MORE
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? MORE
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
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
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
e-learning training Last Friday I went to an excellent session of the Trainers and Developers Network led by Catherine Shepherd. MORE
e-learning trainingAs noted before, many factors have made it harder for L&D professionals to know their learners really well. MORE
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
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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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?”
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” 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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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” 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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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!
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accountancy e-learning legal trainingFor months I’ve been immersed in the zone where marketing and learning overlap – helping marketers become as confident and astute with digital media as they are with traditional media. Although Marketing and L&D departments tend to attract different types of people, in essence both roles involve communicating in a way that is designed to change people’s behaviour.
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