British Gas breaks down silos with Yammer
Editor’s note: This article looks at how British Gas trialled enterprise social network Yammer. Some good tips on how to get colleagues interested.
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Banking culture primes people to cheat
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.
Connections as a tool for growth
Editor’s note: Interesting piece of research looking at the value and importance of connectedness – linking people to ideas and organisations.
Highlighting: A terrible study strategy
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.
Quartz rethinks the newsroom for the digital age
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.
Buzzfeed: brand relevance in the social web
Editor’s note: The growth of Buzzfeed is very interesting. Built on lists and curation, the site is arguably very in tune with how mobile web users like to consume and share content. This article looks at Buzzfeed’s approach to content and what others can learn from it.
A brief history of failure
Editor’s note: Thanks to Nick-Shackleton Jones for sharing this beautifully presented list of failures. A good reminder that there are better ways of doing things – sometimes it’s a case of finding them. Are organisations good at doing that?
Curated tweets from #chat2lrn Twitter chat on personal learning networks
Here are our curated tweets from the chat2lrn twitter chat on #personal learning networks. [View…
Learning is the most celebrated neglected activity in the workplace
Editor’s note: To quote: ‘A class, a reading, a difficult conversation with a colleague, may take 1% of our time. And yet they may radically alter how we approach the other 99%, raising questions that jolt us into learning new things from everyday experiences. A challenging assignment, conversely, may take most of our time and yield little new insights.’ A great piece on what learning really means – and it is not 70:20:10.
The path to successful digital transformation starts with pockets of innovation
Editor’s note: Some good examples here of how companies are trying to transform themselves for the digital world.
Research: Cubicles are the absolute worst
Editor’s note: Workers in offices want more space and less noise pollution, according to this research. Something to consider when trying to help people get on with their work . . .
Modernising Learning: Delivering Results (2014)
Editor’s note: This week saw the launch of the Towards Maturity Benchmark report. It’s a must-read report because it shows how difficult organsations are finding it to reap the benefits of technology enabled learning. Try not to get too depressed at the findings.
The future of the UK jobs market
Editor’s note: I was lucky enough to be in the panel debate on labour market trends at this week’s CIPD conference. Luckily Tim Scott did a great job capturing the debate. This debate frames all we do in L&D in my opinion.
The origins of office speak
Editor’s note: Much more than a piece on office jargon, this piece walks through the history of organisational design and development and makes some good points about why we use the metaphors we do to describe work activities. Thanks to Simon Terry for sharing.
L&D fails to get to grips with learning technologies, according to 2014 Towards Maturity Benchmark Study
Despite the fact orgnaisations are using more technology than ever before to help them deliver…