Design is about intent
Editor’s note: Design as a management tool – fascinating insights from Apple’s approach to design.
Browsing: Curated
The ATL should be cautious in using neuroscience in teaching and education
Editor’s note: A kind of cautionary tale about embracing neuroscientific research in training. Good argument here for really understanding what the science is telling us.
Lumbering to extinction in the digital field
Editor’s note: Great piece on post-Taylorist office design. Thanks to @smartco for sharing.
The future of leadership coaching
Editor’s note: Reflections from the recent Institute of Coaching conference held in New York. The conference covered a range of topics which are useful for seeing what senior executives are thinking about right now.
Learning by thinking: how reflection improves performance
Editor’s note: This research looks at reflection on experience – or rather reflection on doing – as opposed to learning by doing and shows just how important reflection is in the learning process.
Product lessons we can learn from Google
Editor’s note: Great insights on product design from one of the Google Plus designers.
7 tools to help improve the modern collaborative workplace
Editor’s note: Good list here including cloud-based printing and mobile hot spots. Basic but essential tools to ease more collaborative working.
Unfitbit: When fitness tracking goes wrong
Editor’s note: Interesting reflections on how fitness apps can change behaviour, or not. There’s still some way to go to help turn change in to habit.
Designing with the mind in mind: simple guide to understanding user interface design
Editor’s note: The progression from controlled to automatic behaviours raises an obvious question for designers of interactive applications, online services, and electronic appliances: How can they be designed so that using them becomes automatic within a reasonable amount of time? This article shows how.
Why a quarter of Americans don’t trust their employers
Editor’s note: The headline is about trust but two major themes in this survey are recognition and development opportunities – people want them but aren’t getting them.
Change or die
Editor’s note: A must-read article on behaviour change. Fascinating insights into what makes people change and how that can be used in organisations. Thanks to Cedric Borzee for sharing.
Making mLearning usable
Editor’s note: Elearning Guild research into how people use tablets – this is a great read if you are designing for tablets.
Wiley acquires CrossKnowledge: new player in corporate learning
Editor’s note: Insights on the CrossKnowledge acquisition by Wiley from Deloitte analyst Josh Bersin.
Navigating the cultural minefield
Editor’s note: Thanks to Nick-Shackleton-Jones for sharing this article on how to overcome cultural differences. The differences can be quite nuanced which means managers and leaders have to have a deep understanding of how to work with colleagues whose culture is different to theis.
2014 Corporate Learning Survey from Henley Business School
Editor’s note: Now in its fifth year, this survey of nearly 400 senior executives from 38 countries gives a view of the challenges and development priorities for organisations.