Book promotion is an extremely time-intensive, all-consuming activity – and authors always have something else to do. As a result, most authors leave their books to promote themselves – which, as everyone knows, never happens. Here are some thoughts on things to do to promote your book. They are not set out in any order...Přečíst

In exploring a history of eLearning, it’s worth keeping in mind how relatively young – or, depending on your age perspective, old – learning technologies (including eLearning) are. Here’s a quick reminder of some technological facts (in alphabetical order): Learning TechnologyYear inventedAudio podcasts1980sComputer-based training (see eLearning below)1970s – 1990Conferencing and virtual classrooms1994Discussion forums1994eLearningfrom 1990Email1986Embedded performance...Přečíst

Although there’s nothing new about learning and development (L&D), each generation must re-learn its important principles. Henry Ford’s much-reported comment that ‘history is bunk’ ignores the old saying that those who don’t learn from the past are condemned to repeat it. Some say the first human resources (HR)/ L&D guru was the Roman, Lucius Iunius...Přečíst

From a strategic perspective, an organisation wants to align its learning and development with its goals. It wants to analyse and close skills gaps to meet its business plan. It also wants to foster an atmosphere where workers believe that they’re important to the organisation and where the organisation is seen to have a commitment...Přečíst

Having seen (in “Getting Evidence of Competency”) why using competency management offers great benefits for modern organisations, touched on a vocabulary for discussing 12 factors that support competencies, and explored processes to gather the evidence needed to support competency management, we can now turn to the competency framework itself. Uncovering the agreed evidence that demonstrates...Přečíst

The way hybrid workforces are now being managed encourages organisations to revisit competency management. Moreover, with modern advances in technology and data analytics, organisations can use competency definitions and frameworks to guide them through the challenges of change management and performance improvement. Building a culture of compliance is a core part of any modern learning...Přečíst

The case for workplace competency is rarely, if ever, openly explored – yet this oversight can lead to both worker confusion and business inefficiencies. Such inefficiencies inevitably extend to other businesses and, thus, become endemic throughout the economy. Indeed, by omission, competency can become an unspoken conspiracy – something to be achieved not for its...Přečíst

Over at least the last 40 years, the increasing application of technology has been a key factor in changing the corporate learning and development (L&D) world. Among other things, it’s changing the way organisations deliver education to their workforces and the way they evaluate potential, as well as their existing, workers. In particular, technology-delivered assessment...Přečíst

Comprising some 3.8% of the global economy, with revenues of some $3.3tr in 2019, the oil and gas drilling industry affects the life of every person on the planet. Yet, until recently, there was no objective measure of the knowledge, skills and competency levels of the operational geoscientists who play a key role in the...Přečíst

Bob Little Over several decades, in the course of writing many reports and papers (often for audiences of government officials and senior corporate executives), along with writing a great many articles for a range of publications and online outlets as well as editing newspapers, newsletters and magazines, I’ve found it best to (1) write the...Přečíst