Once upon a time (as all good fairy tales start) employees had a job for life. Having left school or college you could start work for an organization and remain there for your whole professional life. If you are very lucky they might pay for you to attend a professional conference once a year. But how can you demonstrate the value of this? MORE >>

Yesterday I listened into the #lscon Twitter stream for Learning Solutions conference in Orlando, Florida. There was some discussion about social learning, so I tweeted a few thoughts myself. ve been asked to repeat them in a blog post here, so here are some of my tweets plus a few more points. Social learning is the lifeblood of all businesses. MORE >>

For  2013 why not take up this professional development challenge. You could decide all or some of them up front, or make your choices as you go through the year, You might like to use the Top 100 Tools list for inspiration – or just discover your own. Share a link to your blog in the comments below. MORE >>

I’ve written a few postings recently (notably  Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does ) where I have tried to show how the fundamental changes in how businesses are operating, require a fundamental change in how the L&D function needs to view workplace learning. Traditional workplace learning. New workplace learning. MORE >>

In my recent webinar I shared a slide that showed the 5 stages of workplace learning.  This has attracted a lot of interest, and I’ve been asked to talk more about the differences between “learning” in Stages 1-4 and Stage 5. Working and learning in Stages 1-4 is based upon a Taylorist , industrial age mindset. Stage 5, however, is quite different. Although MORE >>