Editor’s note: The UK Commission for Employment and Skills has published a report on future careers which identifies 40 jobs for the future. Interesting to see what they are and to think about where L&D fits in and how organisations can encourage and support people into these types of roles.
Editor’s note: A useful list of blogs to follow. This list becomes more useful if you load the RSS feed from each blog into an RSS reader such as Feedly. From there you can see the latest posts from all 50 blogs at a glance. You can also share to your networks at the tap of a button.
Editor’s note: LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman shares his thinking on talent and engagement at a time when a career for life, or a lifetime of employment, is looking like a thing of the past. First 10 slides are great.
Editor’s note: A really good provocation here around what we mean by the sharing economy and its relationship with big finance and profits.
Editor’s note: Not just yet is the answer although there are some serious ethical issues to get grips with as technology becomes more intelligent.
Editor’s note: Another piece debunking learning styles and other approaches to learning that we see used in organisations. This article is aimed at teachers – these approaches to learning are alive and well in both schools and places of work.
Editor’s note: Fascinating data looking at how long employees tend to stay with an employer – cast your assumptions aside and see how the data can help with your approaches to recruitment and people development.
Editor’s note: Some great insights here on how to use hooks to get users interested in your digital products.
Editor’s note: David Kelly urges people to look at the snake oil merchants in their personal learning networks. Thought-provoking piece that raises some good points about who you are following online and why.
Editor’s note: What is the sharing economy exactly and what does it look like from a worker’s perspective and from the employer’s perspective. Some interesting thinking to chew over in these videos.
Editor’s note: This article looks at how British Gas trialled enterprise social network Yammer. Some good tips on how to get colleagues interested.
Editor’s note: Small scale research but it shows something powerful – that culture really can affect behaviour. It is extraordinary to think that perfectly decent people can resort to negative behaviour thanks to the working culture.
Editor’s note: Interesting piece of research looking at the value and importance of connectedness – linking people to ideas and organisations.
Editor’s note: This is this week’s challenge to the ‘way we do things’ article. If you are highlighting text for learning, then don’t bother – it is not how we learn.
Editor’s note: A look at how ‘digital native’ news site Quartz develops content. Free from legacy ways of working, this shows how the media, and content, is changing – something that impacts us all, especially anyone who is creating content.