Learning from the Outside, How External Focus Can Help Learning and Development

This presentation delivered on April 19 for the Irish Centre for Business Excellence Network tries to address why things are not changing fast enough in the (corporate) learning world by pointing out that we often fail to look to the outside. We rely on benchmarking without realising that this will never get us ahead of … Continue reading Learning from the Outside, How External Focus Can Help Learning and Development

Four Questions (and Answers) about Learning in 2012

In a post about Learning Technologies 2012, I've asked four questions to a set of learning (technology) experts. In reaction, some people have asked me how I would have answered the questions myself. Here goes: 1. What will be the most exciting (professional) thing you are planning to do in 2012?** From April 1st my … Continue reading Four Questions (and Answers) about Learning in 2012

Speed Dating at the 2012 Learning Technologies

On Wednesday, January 25th I attended the Learning Technologies exhibit at Olympia in London. I used agreeadate to schedule as many meetings with corporate learning luminaries as possible. Next to catching up, I decided to ask each of them the following four questions: What will be the most exciting (professional) thing you are planning to … Continue reading Speed Dating at the 2012 Learning Technologies