The slow disappearance of training manuals
Monica Keaveney mourns the slow disappearance of training manuals from more and more courses. She outlines the key reasons for using a manual and offers a few tips for designing…
Training Trends
Informal learning: opportunity or threat for L&D professionals?
Donald H Taylor takes a hard look at informal learning and asks if it is an opportunity or threat for learning and development professionals. For a while there everyone was…
Learning Styles: improving your training effectiveness
Brian Moore and Guy Flouch outline how to improve training effectiveness by developing a greater understanding of the different learning styles of trainees. Learning is the goal of training. As…
Training needs analysis: what’s the best approach?
Jan Hills suggests taking a more positive approach to your training needs analysis, by focusing on the outcome rather than the problem. What is training needs analysis? A training needs analysis…
Spies, Twitter and gardening: social media meets learning
What does social media have to do with learning? Just about everything, argues Chairman of the Learning and Performance Institute, Donald H Taylor. We’ve all seen fads come and go.…
