A few weeks back we decided we would share what we have learned about getting a local learning social going in the hope of giving other people the opportunity for social learning in the most social of senses - chatting…Read more ›

UPDATE: This post was a last gasp attempt to shift enough tickets to get The Big Idea off the ground. Alas, it did not work. So there’s not much point in reading it really, unless you want to learn from…Read more ›

Let’s pretend you are a classroom trainer… The business has told you to deliver training to all 150 Customer Service Assistants to explain some new changes to some of your core processes and procedures. This is your bread and butter.…Read more ›

After reading this post by Clark Quinn today something clicked. In my day job I’ve been working hard on an alternative approach to workplace learning. We call it Love Learning. The aim is to promote and support independent learning throughout…Read more ›

What do you get if you take 9 people, a box of lego, 6 pots of play dough, some pipe cleaners, a load of post its and then add beer? Er - this… As I said in the video we…Read more ›

Last month we asked "How do you design the Ultimate Conference Experience?" We posed the question here on our website, on our Google Plus community, on the DPG community, at the last weeLearning meetup and in various LinkedIn groups (nobody…Read more ›

This is part 2 in our series rounding up the "research" we carried out into Redesigning the Conference Experience. Part one focused on ways to make networking more effective and inclusive. Next we’re going to look at ways to improve…Read more ›

When we talk about marketing, by default we talk about marketing campaigns. That suggests using a variety of media, spread out over a period of time, coordinated in a way that serves a specific goal. Traditionally that would consist of…Read more ›

Live sketches by @lizzieeverard during the Valuable Content session at #UXBristol 2013Read more ›

If your organisation is changing faster than your L&D team can adapt you risk becoming irrelevant. Don Taylor called this the "Training Ghetto" in his excellent post. I believe design thinking can help Learning and Development teams lead rapid change in any…Read more ›