L&D

School teach­ers are train­ers; their trainees may be slight­ly small­er in stature, but nev­er­the­less, teach­ing is train­ing! Schools are cen­tres of learn­ing excel­lence and teach­ers are at the fore­front of out­­­come-focused pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment. They train, con­stant­ly, in spite of time

Over the last few years peo­ple have become obsessed with being the best that they can be. Whether it is fit­ness, or in the work­place, appear­ing to suc­ceed is every­thing. We live in a snap­shot cul­ture, per­tain­ing per­fec­tion to image or videos

So all this ‘new year, new me’ talk has been cir­cu­lat­ing and it looks like a major­i­ty of peo­ple have already giv­en up on their res­o­lu­tions. With this in mind, I think it’s a good time to focus on a

How many times have you had to watch a learn­ing video and found your­self switch­ing off? Or found your mind wan­der­ing whilst sit­ting in a work­shop, a lec­ture or even (small gasp) a meet­ing designed to teach you a new skill?  And,

Just because you may not be tak­ing part in for­mal edu­ca­tion or train­ing, it does­n’t mean you’re not learn­ing. In fact, infor­mal work­place learn­ing is actu­al­ly far more effec­tive, which is why so many com­pa­nies are look­ing to devel­op as