Shape the future of OD in the NHS
Editor’s note: Great NHS resource on organisational development here which you can contribute to.
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Helping staff maintain a healthy outlook
Editor’s note: How UKFast, an award-winning internet hosting company, benefits by helping its workers to stay healthy, both physically and mentally.
Mobile learning for the NHS
Editor’s note: Two evidence-based research reports into mobile learning. A must-read for anyone wanting to roll out learning apps.
Personality, gender, and age in the language of social media: the open-vocabulary approach
Editor’s note: Analysis of how we use language across social media sites to describe personality, gender, and age and how personality and behaviour can be mapped through language analysis.
World of Learning day two: leadership development and a three-year mobile learning journey
Sameena Bashey, country HR director at GE opened day two of the World Of Learning…
Surveys in L&D: Curated tweets from #chat2lrn Twitter chat
Here are our curated tweets from today’s chat2lrn Twitter chat on surveys in L&D. [View…
The NHS and Harvard – how training and development can do more than just upskill
Editor’s note: Prof Cary Cooper bridges L&D with health and wellbeing as the NHS prepares to join forces with Harvard to deliver leadership training.
In conversation with neuroscientists
Editor’s note: A look at how neuroscience is developing and what is providing us in terms of helping us to quite literally picture the mind.
SomeOne/Else develops ‘internet for people without internet’
Editor’s note: Look to the developing world for mobile innovation. Here is a great example of a forthcoming knowledge sharing service for farmers.
Motivation a key factor in preserving brainpower later in life
Editor’s note: Wanting to learn and keeping your brain active as you get older will help cognitive function later in life, according to this research.
Survey says
Editor’s note: Here is the primer for today’s Chat2lrn Twitter chat on surveys – it is increasingly a required skill in L&D but not one many L&D professionals have according to the LPI Capability Map.
World of Learning 2013 day one: passports, elearning and talent management
The learning function was at the heart of logistics company DHL’s transformation which saved the…
Can internal crowdfunding help companies surface their best ideas?
Editor’s note: A look at how the internal crowdfunding of ideas has worked at IBM.
Psychologist Angela Duckworth on why grit, not IQ, predicts success
Editor’s note: One for the students of learner engagement – where are your learners on the grit scale? Is this as an important factor in adult learners as it appears to be in students?
Which is the real problem: employee disengagement or the way we view it?
Editor’s note: To quote from the article: ‘When leaders, managers and employees ALL adequately commit and employees take the time to not only find a place to work, but rather find their place with work, we’ll see quantifiable change.’ A useful opinion on engagement from the employee perspective.