Editor’s note: Heart-warming and potentially time-less approach to following your dreams. Worth remembering that dreams can come true and that we can achieve our professional aspirations.
Editor’s note: This list may seem counter-intuitive but it is worth a read. The likes of Tony Robbins and Craig Newmark – founder of Craiglist – share their tips on the best way to start the working day. Hint: it does not include reading email.
Editor’s note: ‘You are in the process of change in order to add new dimensions of performance: to do what you do better, or do radically new things.’ Now is the time for organisations, and learning professionals, to embrace social media technologies to help support performance and deliver that change.
Editor’s note: As well as being interesting in its own right, this school project and its use of technology plus its ‘learn, create, share’ approach to learning provides a glimpse into the future for L&D. If this is how five and six year olds learn now, what will the future of workplace learning look like?
Editor’s note: Jay Cross has compiled a useful set of links that outline what informal learning in the business is all about.
IBM has just announced it is to buy talent management software company Kenexa, a step…
Editor’s note: The L&D industry in India is to treble over the next two years, according to industry analyst DDI. Industry sectors such as IT, business process outsourcing, technology, banking and the financial sector will be pushing this growth alongside family run conglomerates.
Editor’s notes: I’ve heard the call for L&D professionals to focus more on resources rather than courses at a few conferences. This short piece from Clive Shepherd looks at what those resources actually look like.
Editor’s note: A good piece on some of the main (and fundamental) reasons remote workers are more engaged with their work. Reasons include: they work harder to connect, use tools better and make more of face to face time.
Editor’s note: And so we see more consolidation as big tech players buy their piece of the talent management market. IBM has bought Kenexa, a purchase which follows the likes of SAP buying SuccessFactors. Talent management tech vendors, by their very nature, provide tools for learning and development. Does this mean a continuing focus on the one size fits all ‘learning solution’?
Editor’s note: The emerging field of computational social science will help us better understand the structure of networks and how information spreads across them.
Editor’s note: In a world where access to almost anyone and anything is available from almost anywhere, how can organisations
continually create value within a constantly evolving complex network? A big question worthy of consideration . . .
Editor’s note: A look at the psychology of waiting in line, the drudgery of unoccupied time and why lifts have mirrors.
Editor’s note: A heads up on an interesting series of debates on the future of education which started on BBC Radio 4 last night. Be sure to tune in to hear what leading thinkers see as the way forward for our schools and our children.
Editor’s note: Big data is becoming a popular phrase, but what does it mean and what could it look like for L&D? Here’s what it is looking like in the education sector.