Over a month ago I had the great delight of sharing The little book of Video Learning. This was a project I’d been working on with The Charity Learning Consortium for a few months and one where I discovered so much about how people use video in their organisation. After speaking to everyone involved, one … Continue reading The little book of Video Learning
Category: Professional Development
What a year 2019 has been!
Wow, where did this year disappear to?! Professionally, it's been a great year. Video Walks I started the year on a high and launched the #VideoWalks themes. The aim for this project was to encourage people to create video using their smartphone. It has been inspiring to watch people share their videos via Twitter or … Continue reading What a year 2019 has been!
2019 for Niki Hobson
What a year 2018 has been! On reflection it's been a very busy year having attended Learning Technologies conference in Feb, a number of #LnDcowork events in Nottingham, World of Learning Conference in October and Learning Tech's Summer Forum in June. I was part of a pilot course in Neuroscience in L&D held at CIPD … Continue reading 2019 for Niki Hobson
Video at World of Learning #WOL18
Credit World of Learning https://www.learnevents.comI attended the World of Learning exhibition at Birmingham's NEC earlier this month. It was lovely to find it was an intimate event offering the opportunity to catch up with people I'd met before and meet new connections. There was a wide range of exhibitors and free seminars in a variety … Continue reading Video at World of Learning #WOL18
Personal strengths
Now, Discover Your Strengths looks at why most employee development is wrong. Organisations focus on weaknesses and offer training to overcome these. Development should promote and increase natural talents aiming to get the most out of individuals and teams. With the nation's skills shortage being debated is it not vital that we understand our skills … Continue reading Personal strengths
DPG Develop Yourself – 2017 Survey
DPG have identified : One thing that has stayed constant is the need for people to develop themselves, whether this is personal or professional development, whether it's formal or informal, on purpose or incidental, to support career aspiration and earn more money. There is always a need to improve and develop, it's sometimes about finding … Continue reading DPG Develop Yourself – 2017 Survey
Credibility at Work
In my last post I mentioned I attended an event facilitated by @PhilWilcox about Emotion at work. Phil discussed credibility and how you can not own your credibility however it is possible to influence it. Forbes posted an article in 2011 where Deborah L. Jacobs listing 9 ways to Boost Your Credibility At Work. Whether you're looking for … Continue reading Credibility at Work
Emotion at Work Podcast
I recently attended an event facilitated by @PhilWilcox about Emotion at work. We delved into credibility, authenticity and deception. Phil is extremely passionate and (in his words) gets geekly excited about this subject. I was delighted to see he has recently started a new podcast; Emotion at Work. During Episode 3 *SPECIAL EDITION* from the CIPD L&D … Continue reading Emotion at Work Podcast
DPG’s characteristics of an L&D professional
In 2015 DPG highlighted how workplace learning has changed over the past 15 years and noted that the L&D professional needed to have a different skill set to met this change. Their artical 10 characteristics of an outstanding L&D professional explains now learners are taking control of their own learning journey how L&D needs to change … Continue reading DPG’s characteristics of an L&D professional
Professional Practice
Its that time of year again where my CIPD membership needs renewing and which gives me an opportunity to complete a review of my membership and look at what the CIPD offer members. I'm fascinated to see that a new Professional Standards Framework is being developed and is currently in consultation. Once launched this hopefully will … Continue reading Professional Practice
Focus 'n Develop 