Bring Your Own

I remember years ago being in Australia for the first time and being mystified by the sign ‘BYO’ outside restaurants. It meant Bring Your Own (bottle) of course but was an alien concept to someone brought up in Europe where restaurants are licensed and you...

Virtual Learning Environments

I’ve been doing some research for a client about VLEs or Virtual Learning Environments recently and thought I’d share my findings. BTW This has nothing to do with wearing a huge head set and going off into fantasy worlds. Though virtual reality can be part...

How green is your training?

“Sustainability”, “carbon footprints”, “energy emissions” are buzz words. Your company may have a leaning towards ‘green’ or not, but the fact remains that whatever type of business you are in, the need to keep your...

Are you up for a learning challenge?

Today’s challenge…. You have been told to cut your training budget by cutting down the face-to-face time on your management development programme (you may refer to an existing programme in your organisation). The programme can be delivered over any time frame you...

Why virtual learning?

It used to be simple; get a group of people together in a meeting room and set up an overhead projector (remember them?) and your training event was ready to go. But it’s all changed and changing. Virtual learning has seen to that. More than ever, working practices...

Do you want to introduce online learning?

It’s never too early to start learning! If you’re an HR manager or L&D professional who hasn’t yet dipped their toe in the water of online learning, then don’t despair! There’s plenty of time to catch up and plenty of considerations and conversations to have...