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For learning and development professionals in the third sector
Top tips for creating blockbuster eLearning
Jake Barnell shares his hints and tips for writing great screenplays, to create successful, broadcast-quality animations and eLearning.
Creating an eLearning style guide
Consistency in eLearning is really important and is the difference between a professional-looking resource and a Frankenstein-like experience. Gill Chester shares her tips on how to achieve this.
Do you have the teams and performance you deserve?
Sean Spurgin outlines how leaders and managers can block great team performance, and explains how developing performance focused leadership skills is vital for organisational change.
The key to learner engagement
Harri Candy explains five clear steps to sustain meaningful learner engagement
Using visuals to aid learning
Rachel Burnham explains how to use relevant visuals effectively, so they help – rather than hinder – learning
Di’s daring wingwalk
The Charity Learning Consortium is sponsoring a disabled pensioner’s thrilling wing walk to raise money for dementia sufferers.
New animated videos to engage learners
The Charity Learning Consortium has created a range of animated videos for third sector organisations to share with their learners. They include topics like fundraising, volunteering, trustees and governance. They complement the wide range of free videos already available in the Clear Lessons library, which can be used to create engaging, blended learning.
12 signs of a coaching culture
Sean Spurgin outlines the 12 signs that indicate that you have an effective coaching culture. How many do you have within your organisation?
Top tips for the best 360 degree feedback
Elva Ainsworth shares some hints and tips to get the best out of running a 360 degree feedback survey, and the benefits that can bring.
Top tips to engage learners and stakeholders in designing learning
Jack Stuart shares his advice on analysing challenges and stakeholders’ needs to get the dream buy-in that you want.
Top tips for keeping your valuable volunteers
Retaining volunteers can be a real challenge for charities. Here are six tips that can help you hang onto them. The tips are taken from a new series of animations, created by the Consortium, that focus on volunteers.
Launching the Charity Learning Index
The Charity Learning Index will help identify aspirations, provide a starting point to track progression and help prove the worth of learning.
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