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Learning from life: writing a book

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This month Michelle Parry-Slater is an open book about the challenges of writing This month my book, The Learning and Development Handbook is three years old. Writing that book taught me so much about myself and expectations on learning new…

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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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Learning matters: how to make the most of the three forms of reflection

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We all know about reflecting back on something – but how many of us do so going forwards? This blog from Andrew Gibbons is here to shine a light Think for a moment about the word ‘reflection’. Doesn’t it imply…

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Conversations, relationships and learning: jumping right in

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Julie Drybrough questions where and when we start our learning and reflection Can you begin in the middle? The middle of a month? The middle of a process? Can you take that neat list of intentions and bang right through…

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Future human: AI and the behavioural skills we will all need

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Join Liggy Webb on this blog to explore AI and robots through a different lens, one of ourselves and our own future How will new adaptive technologies change the way we behave? It’s a fascinating question and one well worth…

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Online course creation top tips: don’t create a Swiss Army knife

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Are your e-learning courses causing your learners or clients to groan? Ginette Tessier is here to share her tips to make you, and your clients, happy with their online learning Many online courses are created as solutions that can be…

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Learning from life: finding another way

If you have a detour, do you make the most of it? Michelle Parry-Slater did and reflects upon her experience I turned up to a station in the West of England to catch a train north. Apparently, it was a…

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Tayloring learning: generosity of the L&D community

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Daniel Taylor’s blog looks at the collaborative side of our learning and development colleagues What’s the one thing that I love about the L&D community? It’s the generosity and passion to learn from each other, to share and to support…

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Learning from life: What I learnt from writing blogs for TJ

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Michelle Parry-Slater reviews a year of writing and, as always, considers what she’s learning by doing Debbie Carter has edited TJ for as long as I can remember. She is a lovely human who has furthered our profession by giving…

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