Performance Consulting, Change- and Talent Management at ICBE

Today I attended the [Irish Center of Business Excellence] (ICBE) 2012 conference in Dublin, Ireland. I will blog about the following three talks: Peter de Jager on Change Peter de Jager talk was titled "Reducing Change to Seven Questions". According to de Jager everybody believes that "people resist change". He then gave us many examples … Continue reading Performance Consulting, Change- and Talent Management at ICBE

9 Questions for All Learning Professionals in 2011

This week I needed to create a small presentation which could help learning professionals do some forward thinking. I decided to repurpose an earlier keynote given to the Dommel Valley group (you can find that presentation here), strip out many of the slides and record a voice-over including cheesy sound effects. Please find below 9 … Continue reading 9 Questions for All Learning Professionals in 2011

Informal Learning “Broadening the Spectrum of Corporate Learning”

On November 8th 2010 I delivered a keynote at the second Symposium of the Dommel Valley Group in Eindhoven. The theme of the day was "Informal Learning". My presentation touched on the "Learning DNA" of the company I work for, looked at some of our efforts in the informal learning space and brought up nine … Continue reading Informal Learning “Broadening the Spectrum of Corporate Learning”

Performance Consulting: Moving Beyond Training, a Review

A little while back I used my company's global learning community of practice to ask its members who their learning gurus were. It was an interesting exercise because it gave me some insight into which people and ideas have influenced the current learning practice in the company. I was expecting names like Stephen Downes, George … Continue reading Performance Consulting: Moving Beyond Training, a Review