The costs of working too much
Editor’s note: Great article on long hours in banks and the challenges banks face in trying to get employees to work less.
Browsing: Curated
If you’re not helping people develop, you’re not management material
Editor’s note: This article focuses on the role of the manager in developing people and provides some useful tips on how managers can get the best from their teams.
Workplace performance: Learning is behaviour change: why is it often so hard to help it happen?
Editor’s note: A great article by Charles Jennings on the psychological and emotional factors at play in behaviour change.
A platform-thinking approach to innovation
Editor’s note: A look at how technology – through platforms – is adding a genuinely new approach to innovation.
Brynjolfsson on the Second Machine Age
Editor’s note: An hour of your time well spent as Erik Brynjolfsson talks through his latest book on how tech is changing our lives.
The difference between online learning, e-learning and blended learning
Editor’s note: This is why L&D professionals should blog. A great discussion here amongst Clive Shepherd, Nick Shackleton-Jones and others on formal/informal, online and elearning.
Learning and Technologies conference speech digital handout
Editor’s note: This is the digital handout from the Learning Technologies conference session on video. Great tips and resources here.
Three keys to keeping customers engaged
Editor’s note: This short video shows Stanford academic BJ Fogg talking through steps to behaviour change.
Why questioning tried and true management systems is critical to redesigning our work environments
Editor’s note: A look at holacracy and disruption in organisational development, something that was much talked about at this week’s Learning Technologies conference.
4 steps to connecting with—and engaging—generation C
Editor’s note: At this week’s Learning Technologies conference, Brian Solis talked about the imporatnace of generation C – the connected generation. These tips follow on from what he was talking about. Dig around his site too – there lots of useful content in there.
Cognitive bias: what psychology can tell us about experts and forensic science
Editor’s note: Itiel Dror spoke at the Learning Technologies conference this week. Here he talks about cognitive bias and context. Learner context was a big issue at the conference.
5 tips for game design and learning
Editor’s note: A great write-up here from Dan Steer who attended Julie Dirsen’s session on game design at last year’s ASTD conference. Dirksen spoke on a similar theme this week at Learning Technologies, which is why I hope this is useful.
Learning Technologies 2014: Backchannel details
Editor’s note: Kate Graham is managing the Twitter backchannel for the Learning Technologies Conference and in the post explains how to access the Twitter coverage.
What can our hobbies teach us about learning?
Editor’s note: Today’s Chat2lrn Twitter chat is on hobbies and to get the ball rolling, this post looks at the role of hobbies in the learning process.
Holacracy: the hot management trend for 2014?
Editor’s note: so what’s holacracy? This article will explain and help make sense of organisations without job tiles.