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The green leader’s toolkit: carpooling, home offices, and sustainable leadership practices

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Luke Smith looks at the impact of leadership on corporate environmental responsibility Companies no longer have the option to put sustainability on the back burner. It’s the responsibility of leadership to ensure their business is operating as ethically and environmentally…

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Navigating the evolving landscape of the L&D Job market: insights and trends for 2024

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Exploring the job market for job seekers and those in hiring roles, four L&D experts share their experience and suggestions in this detailed feature As the year 2023 unfolded, the Learning and Development (L&D) job market underwent a profound transformation.…

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Is your L&D approach out of fashion? Trends that need to be retired

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Wendy Hanson is rethinking learning and development for 2024 and urges us to drop what’s not working In the dynamic landscape of professional development, the traditional approaches to learning and development are undergoing a significant transformation. As we move through…

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Editor’s blog: don’t rush to trust ChatGPT

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Jo Cook explores whether artificial intelligence is robust enough for the information processing she wants I’m a geek. I wear that title with pride because the Cambridge dictionary says that a geek is: “Someone who is intelligent but not fashionable…

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Timeboxing – book review

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Book: Timeboxing: The Power of Doing One Thing at a TimeAuthor: Marc Zao-Sanders Always on the lookout for new ways to live a more intentional life, I was excited to peel open the pages of “Timeboxing.” Timeboxing is a planning…

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Ina Weinbauer-Heidel on the learning transfer process

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Ina Weinbauer-Heidel founder of the Institute of Transfer Effectiveness, talks to Nigel Paine about her work to provide rigour to the vital activity of the learning transfer process, including focusing on the impact not the throughput of the training. This…

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Lost in translation: the battle for survival in the world of learning solutions

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Andy McConville urges those marketing their learning solutions to tone down the complex language Finding a place to market, sell and get repeat business in learning and development is more challenging than ever. A LinkedIn search finds 8,200 potential suppliers…

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#WOL24: Navigating the new frontiers of hybrid work and learning

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This AI written article analyses some of the themes shared on Twitter from the recent World of Learning conference and summit In the span of a few days, from January 30th to February 1st, 2024, the digital realm buzzed with…

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L&D skills for the digital world

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Is the current state of technology overwhelming you? Or is your organisation asking you to focus on something when your passion is elsewhere? And is technology the most important thing anyway? Harri Le Claire and Jo Cook share more in…

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Hira Ali on the myriad of challenges women face on the road to professional success

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Hira Ali talks about her research that went into the book about women around the globe. The fear of missing out (FOMO), especially for working mothers, was a key find. Hira’s book Her Way to the Top is discussed with…

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