GoodPractice are well known for their weekly podcasts about work, performance and learning. They recorded their second podcast in front of a live audience after the CIPD L&D show day one. I was honoured to be asked as a guest and you can listen here! Below are some tweets... https://twitter.com/GoodPractice/status/989171784036569090 This two-part article I wrote... Continue Reading →
Interview with Jo Cook by Personel Plus magazine
On the 12th April 2018 I'm speaking at the E-learning Fusion conference in Poland. This is an interview with Personal Plus that is being published in Polish, so here's the English version for you. Personel Plus: Jo, thank you for agreeing to be interviewed. As you are probably guessing, the topic of our conversation will be…... Continue Reading →
Learning technologies – what do managers really think?
In November 2017 GoodPractice launched their third piece of research about what managers think and do. This piece of research specifically focused on the perceptions about technology from those managers, that their organisations provide them with for learning. This post has some comments and links to resources for a one stop shop on the research. Audio interview... Continue Reading →
A fish called learning
On Thursday morning I'm attending the PSK Performance Fishbowl Discussion on the DNA of the Modern Learner in London. It's running 8-10am, so that does mean a very early start to get into London for that time, but I'm sure it will be worth it! The day is hosted by Trent Rosen, who is Director at... Continue Reading →
The human condition
As part of the Modern Learning Leader Programme, the first webinar is all about "The Human Condition", with Emotion at Work expert Phil Willcox. What is "The Human Condition"? Other than understanding the actual words, I'm not sure what that means. Obviously, the place to start is Google! I thought I might start with an... Continue Reading →
Learning transfer – the what and the why
Learning Transfer Research 2017 - INSIGHTS FOR IMPACT is a new research report launched this month, from Lentum Ltd and Lever Transfer of Learning. As the title states, it focuses on making an impact around learning transfer and it's the first in a number of years to look at this issue globally. To discuss this... Continue Reading →
Bob Mosher notes from TLDchat – performance support and more
#TLDChat is a webcast hosted every morning US time (4pm UK time) by Brent Schlenker. A number of different L&D topics are covered on different days. Bob Mosher was the guest today, and I shared several tweets of some of his key messages. I thought I would gather them with some other detail as Bob's... Continue Reading →
Soft skills gap – do appraisals really work for identification?
I was the guest speaker on the Bray Leino Learning webinar, "Identifying and Closing Soft Skills Gaps." You can watch the recording here. Appraisals are often used in organisations to review achievement and also look forward to goal setting for the coming year, which should include identifying all sorts of skills gap and how to... Continue Reading →
Flowering in L&D
Yesterday I wrote this blog post for Training Journal, about how to refresh ourselves in our professional life. It was inspired by seeing a stagnant stream on a walk. This morning I went on a similar walk and saw some plant life that reminded me of two things: blooming in adversity and perspective. Blooming in adversity Where... Continue Reading →