Learning in an adult world is not like being at school. Adults have busy lives, plenty of existing experience in their role, and often an expectation that they're "done" with learning new things. How can we create a successful blended learning approach for adult learners?
With no line manager support, it is highly likely old habits will slowly creep back after any learning intervention.
Here are my top 10 tips to help support others.
In our COVID 19 world virtual communications have never been more important than right now. This could be informally with friends and family, or increasingly, in our business context. What is certain, when we return to ‘normal’, it will not be the ‘normal’ that we were used to. The seismic shock that we are experiencing will shape the future. It will never be the same again.
What do you think when you hear the word ‘process’? Putting that question to salespeople tends to elicit two extreme responses. Firstly, it’s often “love it, gives me structure, that’ll help” or, very frequently, an internal scream – “it’ll restrict me, I can’t be myself, I don’t want to be a robot”. Which camp do you fall into?
Heard it before? Said it yourself? Hmmmm….so what is the impact of this? In my experience, this leads to our teams becoming de-motivated, outcomes being compromised, and us becoming frazzled.
I hope you enjoy watching my video where I discuss the comparison between fitness and work, especially at a time when we may be wanting to consider making changes for the New Year.
I would love to hear your experiences as you create winning habits on any area of life; nutrition, exercise, ways or working, building skill, capability, resilience, performance.
Virtual communications have never been more important than right now, in our COVID19 world. This could be informally with friends and family, or increasingly, in our business context. What is certain, when we return to ‘normal’, it will not be the ‘normal’ that we were used to. This seismic shock that we are experiencing in the context of our everyday lives will shape the future. It will never be the same again.
25 years ago, I was offered my first job as a ‘trainer’ – that was the day my world changed forever. What I discovered was, that in this crowded market of learning and development professionals, to stand out, this job, whilst one of the most rewarding on the planet, is one of the most demanding as well.
I am lucky enough to have worked with leadership teams from large international businesses for over 25 years, and if I am completely honest ‘what leadership is’ mystified me for a long time; walk into the business section of any library, and there are large number of very impressive piece of work about leadership. In fact, there are institutions that specialise in leadership. Leadership is big business.
