In the last year and a half, pretty much the whole working world went virtual during the Coronavirus pandemic. Whether it was meetings or conferences, the use of Zoom, Teams and so on sky rocketed, “Zoom fatigue” became a thing and we often felt the disconnect when were previously used to so much face-to-face contact.... Continue Reading →
Virtual Instructor Led Training is on the rise. No surprise there. But what’s interesting is that the prediction for forward growth takes it's starting point as November 2020, rather than benchmarking future figures against pre-Covid stats. According to a MarketWatch report, the global virtual classroom market size is predicted to see a nearly 10% Compound... Continue Reading →
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 →
On Monday 27th March 2017 I was honoured to be the keynote speaker for the Colleges Wales annual training and learning conference. This year the title is Step Up To the Future and the themes are "digital" and "more able and talented". The session I'm keynoting is focusing on the use of technology as part of... Continue Reading →
How do you effectively move up the corporate ladder and make changes with impact? It's a huge challenge that was researched and reported on in this report: Ascending to the C-suite. The report focuses on managers moving into senior roles and it opens with "nearly half of top executives say they weren’t effective at earning support... Continue Reading →
This week I had my first experience of the rapid development tool Sparkol (their homepage explains what it is if you don't know). I collaborated with a colleague in our L&D team to develop the communications to manager’s in our business about a new 2013 objective and what it means. The Sparkol video was to create... Continue Reading →
