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Using marketing to engage learners
Issy Nancarrow shows how great marketing can engage consumers, with tips to harness these techniques for L&D.
Top ten new developments at the Charity Learning Consortium
A lot has changed at the Charity Learning Consortium!
Have a look at our fantastic new features and functionalities.
Playing to your strengths
Focus on developing your weaknesses and your performance may suffer. Ian Pettigrew explains why strengths based leadership can help you make the most of your natural talents.
Classroom training: villain of L&D?
Going into the ‘classroom’ for ‘training’ has had a bad press but according to Robin Hoyle, it hasn’t been drummed out of town just yet! And, as he explains, there are some great ways to maximise on the opportunities that classroom training presents.
23 June 2016 | Members’ Seminar update
It was a great day at the Members’ Seminar on Thursday 23rd June, thank you to everyone who battled through the floods to get to us! We had some good sessions on summoning strengths, evaluation, learning strategy and creative compliance to name just a few.
Developing learning professionals
The expression ‘coals to Newcastle’ comes to mind when talking about developing learning professionals. Perhaps because we’re so focused on supporting others, we can overlook our own development. But according to leading commentators like Charles Jennings, a new skill set is required for learning practitioners to meet the needs of a modern workforce. So how can we best support ourselves to keep evolving? Learning professionals came up with these tips at the #Why702010 event.
Why learning materials fail at the final hurdle
If you’ve ever spent hours, weeks or months even creating fantastic learning resources, only for them to go down like a lead balloon, read on…Harri Candy shares her hard earned wisdom on why learning materials can fail, and how to get them right first time.
Embrace your inner marketer
Stephanie Morgan shares some marketing secrets to engage your learners. Warning: Follow her advice and prepare yourself for a learning stampede…
I have just been made CEO…what the heck do I do with my L&D team?
Nigel Harrison plays devil’s advocate in this illuminating Q&A. Based on a real life scenario, it may make for uncomfortable reading but its message is essential for anyone wanting a future in learning and development.
Collaborating to save charities from boring eLearning!
The Charity Learning Consortium and Learning Heroes have joined forces to offer third sector staff and volunteers an engaging alternative to traditional eLearning.
Q&A with Charles Jennings: 70:20:10 in Action
We put Charles Jennings in the hot seat, to answer your questions about 70:20:10.
Moodle development supports team learning
It’s taken almost 1,000 hours, and a ton of biscuits, to create an easy to use, open source Hierarchies tool. Josh Willcock explains how one ‘little’ Moodle plugin is making a big difference to managers – as well as L&D practitioners’ – working lives.
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