Back Issues - May 2005

• Transferring learning can be perilous
  Peter Honey draws on his own experiences to highlight how transferring learning isn't always the right thing to do.
• Letter from Ireland
  Pat Costine reviews two training initiatives that aim to resolve 'training inquities'.
• Reversal Theory: changing your organisation for the better
  Stephen Carter looks at how individuals and their organisations can benefit from Reversal Theory’s approach to harnessing human potential.
• Spotlight on Paul Nunny
  Paul Nunny pulls no punches about pulling pints, as Mike Levy discovered.
• Evaluation: navigating the Kirkpatrick magician's maze
  David Laughrin, director of dblearning, a training provider within the Ministry of Defence, describes their recent experience of finding a practical approach to useful training evaluation for trainers and their employers.
• Stopping the training drain
  Globally, organisations spend some £25 billion (1) a year on management training, yet learning impact surveys suggest repeatedly that as little as 10 per cent of what is learnt during training is actually applied back in the workplace. It’s an appalling lack of return on investment. But who is to blame – individual trainees, their company or the training provider? Suzanne Evans investigates.
• Focus 'Opinion' from Bert Massie
  In the second part of our Focus coverage on diversity, Bert Massie advises trainers on how to prepare and run events that include disabled people.
• Focus - Mental health at work: the hard facts
  How do we recognise mental health problems? Who is at risk? And what is the impact to the workplace? Tara St John takes a look at the facts and offers practical guidelines for all concerned.
• Focus - Centre stage: how theatre plays a role in diversity training
  Adrian McDougall pulls back the curtains to reveal the benefits of using drama to aid understanding and facilitate debate surrounding issues of diversity.
• Laundering learning
  Gilly Salmon uses soaps to clean up potential e-learning dramas.
• Netcheck k- Garry Platt
  Is your budget tight when it comes to new software? Well, there's plenty available that won't cost a penny as Garry Platt discovers.
• Filling the world with leaders
  Leaders or managers? Andrew Mayo revisits a thorny topic.
• Learning Needs Anaysis Methods
  Part 5 in the Learning Needs Analysis series by Sarah Cook.