11 Jan
Presenting is a tough task even for the most confident amongst us. For those not born with natural eloquence, speaking in front of your peers or even in public can…
13 Dec
For a professional training approach, careful and detailed planning prior, during and after the training events needs to take place, whether this is face to face or online. We’ve compiled…
01 Nov
Seventy-five percent of all change management programmes fail because of their lack of employee and management support. That’s a frightening statistic, so what can we do to address this? Change processes…
11 Oct
The Rise of Online Training Who’d have thought that doing training online would become such a widespread activity? We did for a start! However, we did not foresee that online…
19 Sep
A stakeholder analysis is the gathering and subsequent analysis of data to determine whose interests should be taken into account when developing and/or implementing a policy, programme, or project. Project…
29 Aug
What is a Training Curriculum? A Training Curriculum is a set of course topics to be delivered during a training session to provide knowledge and skills for a specific audience…
08 Aug
In our last blog, Ruth discussed communication plans critical for stakeholder engagement and successful implementations of change. Although many of us working in IT projects are unaware, the plans we…
20 Jul
A change management communication plan is based on an understanding of the organisation, stakeholders and change impacts. The goal is to support the business objective by helping stakeholders understand the…
04 Jul
Stakeholder engagement is the practice of interacting with, and influencing project stakeholders to the overall benefit of the project and its sponsors. The successful completion of a project usually depends…
20 Jun
What is facilitation? Definitions include that it is the process of making something possible or easier, to help cause (something): to help (something) run more smoothly and effectively. According to…
07 Jun
Achieving successful change is one of the biggest problems that modern organisations face. There is just so much change taking place in organisations – a strategic vision with numerous initiatives…
19 Apr
Once upon a time, a time before Covid19 and lockdown, working from home were three words that excited a contractor. To be offered a contract where working from home (WFH)…
29 Mar
Over recent weeks we have been discussing Coaching and Mentoring skills which enable the development of people, Communication skills which help us to effectively connect with people and in this…
16 Mar
Our previous blog entitled Effective Communication was published earlier this month. Now we are providing some more details of activities that can promote more effective communication using various methods and…
03 May
In our last blog, Ruth gave you some considerations when working from home to make things easier and become as effective as being office based – something that both of…
15 Feb
Motivation is something that drives us to get up and do something. What motivates you? “Motivation consists of the amount of effort a person is willing to exert in pursuit…
02 Feb
A few weeks ago, I tried to explain the difference between Coaching and Mentoring. Consequently, as there are subtle differences, there may also be differences in the questions we ask…
18 Jan
Feedback is the term used in the following situations: information about reactions to a product, a person’s performance of a task which is used as a basis for improvement the…
05 Jan
Coaching and mentoring are learning techniques which help people to take charge of their own development, to release their potential and to achieve results which they value and need. There…
08 Dec
What is the ARCS Model, what does ARCS stand for, and who developed it? To be correct it is the ARCS Model of Motivation. The ARCS Model is an instructional…
01 Mar
When I realised I needed to write about ‘Effective Communication’ in this week’s blog, it occurred to me that I was currently going through a period in my personal sporting…
22 Nov
Virtual adjective: virtual GENERAL almost or nearly as described, but not completely or according to strict definition. “the virtual absence of border controls” Similar: effective, in effect, near, near enough, essential,…
27 Oct
We know it’s not fashionable to talk about ‘problems’ or ‘challenges’, but if L&D is really going to succeed at effective and intelligent learning measurement then we need to get…
25 Nov
In our last blog on the 4 stages of Competency, Ruth explained the viewpoint of the learner at each stage and the actions the trainer takes to enable the learner…
15 Oct
Information needs to be organised so that it helps learners understand easily and retain it and apply it correctly for a long time. It should be delivered to the right…
15 Sep
Introduction Using an Ice Breaker or Energiser or Warm up is a useful tool in the trainer’s toolkit and goes a long way to making learning fun. Ice breakers can…
01 Sep
Having been responsible for the implementation of learning programmes mainly through IT Projects for a variety of companies over the last 20 years, it has amazed me why companies do…
12 Aug
E-Learning design is similar to any face to face course design at the outset. Where it starts to differ is that when the E-Learning course content is developed, you have…
29 Sep
Alicja Kulp and Ruth Hatfield have worked in many IT projects across Europe and Australasia implementing learning solutions for customers who were embarking on a road of change in their…
14 Jul
What is a Learning Objective? A Learning Objective is a statement that defines what the participant is expected to learn from the training course, or a session within the course,…