Becoming influential as an L&D practitioner
Editor’s note: If you want to have impact as an L&D professional, stay up top date with the latest research and thinking and turn this into practical solutions for your organisation. Simples.
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The 2016 Online Learning Conference Backchannel #OLConf
Editor’s note: Some more great learning resources pulled together by David Kelly from the 2016 Online Learning Conference held in Chicago.
The Future of Work: It’s Already Here… And Not As Scary As You Think
Editor’s note: The good news is that there is a future of work. The challenge is to understand how and get comfortable with technology.
Against happiness
Editor’s note: Uh oh, this quote says it all: “A large American health-care provider, Ochsner Health System, introduced a rule that workers must make eye contact and smile whenever they walk within ten feet of another person in the hospital.”
Networking – A skill you can learn or is it simply nature? Curated #chat2lrn tweets
Here are our edited highlights of the Chat2lrn Twitter chat on #networking. [View the story…
The 8 Immutable Laws that Govern The Future of Work
Editor’s note: Whatever the future looks like, if there is a role for humans then they will be working according to these eight laws.
Managing the Bots That Are Managing the Business
Editor’s note: This piece suggests that the core part of management is to manage the technology that manages employees, not the employees themselves.
Dos and don’ts on designing for accessibility
Editor’s note: Some great tips here on making content more accessible from the UK government’s Home Office Digital team.
Thinking about the Future of Work to Make Better Decisions about Learning Today
Editor’s note: This seems to be a well argued, and grounded, discussion into how work is changing and the implications for learning. It’s a long read but worth it.
Young people living in a ‘suspended adulthood’, finds research
Editor’s note: Research shows alarmingly high levels of young people, especially women, lack self-confidence. Clearly, this presents a whole range of challenges for organisations. What role should L&D play?
Your Marketing to Millennials Is Failing Because of Your Stereotypes
Editor’s note: Does this resonate for you as an L&D professional? is the Millennial badge useful or not. with many different generations in the workplace it would be better to target their specific needs not their age. L&D, like marketing, shares similar challenges.
When your boss is an algorithm
Editor’s note: The tech is making new ways of working possible: cue the #gig economy. But, what if you work for a platform, not a person. Who’s the boss? And how will working for a platform change the way you work? All is revealed in this piece . . .
Developing organisational ambidexterity – the implications for HR, L&D and OD
Editor’s note: This is a really good distillation of research into what makes an organisation ambidextrous – able to maintain current products and services whilst at the same time developing new ideas and thinking. Lots in here for L&D to consider.
Clippy and the History of the Future of Educational Chatbots
Editor’s note: We didn’t like Microsoft’s Clippy and we like asking others for help. Bots aren’t new, as this article explains, but can they deliver something useful around performance and learning? That remains to be seen.
In-Focus: Transforming Formal Learning
Editor’s note: Towards Maturity’s latest report looks at how organisations can transform formal learning. It’s good to see this focus on classroom training as it is still widely used and held in high regard.