Blogs
Tayloring learning: the power of talking
Daniel Taylor talks and talks about talking and talking. Oh, and a bit of listening too! I love to chat and natter with friends. This kind of talking feels so easy. Yet talking can also feel tough. Maybe you are unable to communicate how you view something, or you feel that you are just not heard. How about when you watch politicians on TV, a debate or your favourite reality show, such as Married at First Sight: are they really…
Learning from life: writing a book
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 skills. Who was I to write a book? I couldn’t write because I wasn’t the right person Writing the book was really hard for me, which came as a surprise. A big surprise! I had written short form content for…
Editor’s blog: don’t rush to trust ChatGPT
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 or popular” and “someone who is very interested in a particular subject and knows a lot about it”. Something that doesn’t often come up in professional circles is that I’m a Superman geek (the Christopher Reeve movies, specifically). I obviously…
Learning matters: how to make the most of the three forms of reflection
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 thinking back? Hasn’t the word become, inappropriately, associated with retrospection and reviewing past events? Reflection must be seen to be a legitimate, purposeful, valuable activity My preferred definition of ‘reflection’ is “serious thinking or careful consideration”. I like this because…
Conversations, relationships and learning: jumping right in
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 the middle of it, messing things up? I’m asking because I hoped to begin at the start – the start of the month, of the year, like proper people do. I hoped to adhere to the conventions I had set…
Future human: AI and the behavioural skills we will all need
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 consideration and debate. We are experiencing the advent and convergence of exponential technologies that are already having a big impact on our behaviours and the way that we live. Artificial intelligence (AI) is on track to be the most transformative…
Online course creation top tips: don’t create a Swiss Army knife
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 applied to several different situations, without considering the current and specific needs of the intended audience. Why is this important? If we don’t tailor what we produce to a specific need our audience has right now, we risk our course…
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 strike day. The only trains running were Transport for Wales. Never one to miss an opportunity, even if I am missing a train, I travelled West then travelled North through Wales and back into England. Certainly the long way around,…
Tayloring learning: generosity of the L&D community
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 and Training Journal demonstrates this by having contributions from practitioners like myself. It does make me wonder if this is part of our shared DNA. For many L&D professionals, life can be an independent role, you might be the only…
Learning from life: What I learnt from writing blogs for TJ
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 it a voice. A highlight of my career was attending the TJ 50th anniversary celebration in 2015. Last year, I was honoured to be asked to become a regular blogger. TJ has an industry voice which is ‘of the people’…
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