By Sam Russell – July 2016 Research clearly shows us that the more engaged employees are, they more they will develop and utilise their capabilities and, as a result, the bigger and more positive an impact they make and the more commercially and culturally successful your business will be. Recognition and Reward programs have long…
By: Sam Russell – June 2016 Did you know that the federal government has allocated a huge amount of money to the Department of Education & Training aimed at assisting organisations in achieving ‘growth’ via accessing the right training. This funding is a co-contribution model (i.e. you pay a percentage of the costs and the…
By: Sam Russell – May 2016 First of all, a sincere apology for not having posted anything for a week or two. I’m afraid that, what with all the networking sessions we’ve been organising and running over the past few weeks and other work commitments, we’ve been busier than the proverbial ‘umbrella salesman in a…
By: Sam Russell – April 2016 By way of showing their support for The Australian L&D Network, Redii, the AMAZING employee recognition software providers who were born out of recognition industry leader and BRW Best Place to Work, RedBalloon, have, for a limited time, generously offered all of our members an exclusive, HUGELY discounted, rate…
By Scott Howe – April 2016 “When you command you ought to know each man in that command better than his own mother does. You must know which man responds to encouragement, which to reasoning, and which needs a good kick in the pants. Know your men.” – Field Marshal Sir William Slim A…
By: Sam Russell – March 2016 Many of the technical and commercial skills that are needed to perform well at work require money, training, experience, effort, talent, and/or considerable time to achieve. However, as a meme I recently saw on Facebook pointed out, there’s a good number of social (or ‘soft’) skills that require absolutely no training,…
As a ‘warm up’ to the ‘What is mobile learning and how can it be used to reduce costs and increase capability?’ sessions that he will be presenting for us at our upcoming networking events in Perth, Sydney, and Melbourne, Dawid Falck (MD of BabbleWire Learning Group and acknowledged subject-matter expert in field of online and mobile…
By: Sam Russell – February 2016 Following the huge success (indeed, the biggest session we’ve ever hosted) of our recent Brisbane session ‘What’s this mobile learning stuff all about and who’s using it to do what?’ we have had a large number of requests to deliver the session for our members in other parts of Australia.…
By: Sam Russell – February 2016 A big thank you to everyone who attended the recent Australian L&D Network session in Perth ‘Maximising Your Staff Training On A Minimum Budget’ and an especially big thank you to Sarah Cordiner for developing and delivering it for us. The session received excellent feedback and it seems that everyone…
By: Sam Russell – January 2016 What’s this mobile learning stuff all about and who’s using it to do what? Online learning (and more recently, mobile learning) has been promising a revolution in capability development for some years now and is playing an increasing part in learning and development programs. But what EXACTLY is online/mobile learning?…
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