By Dan Stringer – 21st January 2022 At the end of each week, we want to lighten everyone’s mood with a Learning and Development ‘Friday Funny’. This one is an oldie but without doubt one of my all-time-favourites, beautifully illustrating how you just can’t apply the same system of capability measurement and…
We’re super-excited to officially announce that, after a considerable Covid-induced break, the Australian Learning & Development Network is back! Of course, it’ll take a while to get back to full-swing, but we’re looking to get some free local networking and keynote sessions organised soon. In the meantime, we’ve already resumed our daily L&D posts here…
By Ash Baker – 19th January 2022 Once a week, we’ll post a Weekly Learning & Development Quote, which will hopefully inspire you or, if you want to share it via email, print it off and pin it on the break-out-room wall, or shout it across the shared office space, inspire your…
By Barbara Oakley, TEDxOaklandUniversity PO51808qAS@This Tuesday’s learning and development TED talk, this one delivered by Oakland University Professor Barbara Oakley on the subject of Learning to Learn. Now, to be perfectly honest, this isn’t a video we’d expect the average ‘Joe’ or ‘Jo’ to enjoy. However, for a learning and development professional, it’s really interesting…
By Rebecca Kwong – 17th January 2022 I was recently thinking about the unavoidable fact that some people resist any initiative labelled ‘training’ or ‘learning’…indeed, some people seem to be actively anti anything to do with training/learning. We can debate the possible reasons for this (e.g. terrible experiences in school, thinking they know…
By Nima Singh – 15th January 2022 Capability development is (of course) MUCH more than just training and can/should include a wide range of other strategies that all align, interlink, and support each other in the overall pursuit of an L&D team’s organisational development goals (no one strategy alone will ever achieve the…
By Lars Sudmann, TEDxUtopia At TEDxUtopia, the question was asked: What would leadership in Utopia look like? In this fantastic talk, Lars Sudmann, a university lecturer in Aachen and Braunschweig, and world-renowned researcher and thought-leader on the topic of what makes the most advanced organizations and leaders successful, shares his key discoveries. To start…
By Helen StJohn – 13th January 2022 Great leadership is, of course, essential at every level for an organisation to be successful. However, Frontline Managers are responsible for ensuring that an organisation’s strategy translates into results and are therefore the linchpin for success. As such, it’s fair to say that very few roles…
By Dave Burns – 12th January 2022 There have been many definitions on what leadership is, for example, Alan Keith of Lucas Digital says; “Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen” and Lindsay Levin of Whites Limited says; “Vision, conviction and courage made the difference for…
By Nima Singh – 11th January 2022 ‘Where does Learning Matters get its Learning & Development industry information for its newsfeed from?’ you might well ask. Well, the short answer is ‘from a variety of sources’, such from experience, from our own L&D subject matter experts, from reading/referencing the books in our [constantly growing] instructional…
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