Any connections based in or around Haywards Heath, Sussex? On 12th Feb one of my fave local & independent cafes is launching a ‘Coffee & Connections Breakfast Club’. We’re hoping it will take off and become a regular event! All the details you need are below… Will I see you there? 😀

Not cheap but another interesting development … www.fastcompany.com/91271738/ope...

Today marks the end of the 14th series of the #AdventBlogs - my 6th and final series as curator. Today's #AdventBlogs post is from me. One last post... epichr.co.uk/2025/01/13/a...

Thanks everyone for joining us here for #LearnChat. We'll be back again in February for another chat - join us Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 8:00 PM EST. Thank you to our #LearnChat hosts Jane Bozarth, David Kelly, and Tracy Parish

You can also find this and every other episode on your favourite podcast platform: ideaspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2009836/follow

A reminder that the biggest platforms can act as they please …. Ditching of Facebook factcheckers a ‘major step back’ for public discourse, critics say

Today Making Hybrid Working Work is published, so it’s a special day for me. It’s been a long time coming. If you read it - thank you - I’d love to know what you think. Message me or leave me a review. #MakingHybridWorkingWork www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Hybri...

"It's not the under-representation of women. It's the over-representation of men." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A lot of workers will be on the move in 2025, according to this data … www.personneltoday.com/hr/attrition...

How to use market insights to shape your comms; Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins, Dec 12 learningnews.com/news/insight... @martincouzins.bsky.social @nigelpaine.bsky.social

It's Monday, and that means #CPDWeekly! Check out this week's list of great L&D events: tommcdowall.notion.site/lnd-events?v... This week we have 7 #Webinars, and a 3-day vritual #Confrence, all 100% FREE to attend! What will you learn this week? #LnD #LearningAndDevelopment #CPD #Community

RTO bait & switch. www.hcamag.com/au/specialis...

So it begins.

Bluesky network analyzer made by @theo.io Enter your Bluesky handle to find people followed by lots of the people you follow (but not you). bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

In our session on thought leadership yesterday we referenced this research from Edelman, which shows why buyers are increasingly looking for credible insights and practical advice to help overcome their challenges vs traditional marketing content

I really enjoyed our coffee and chat session this morning with @nahdiakhan.bsky.social - thankyou Nahdia for sharing great insights. I haven't done a session like this in a while and it reminded me how much I enjoy doing them

L&D folks - on Thursday, I'm doing a webinar for people beginning a career in L&D. What advice would you offer them? What pitfalls should they avoid? Are qualifications worth it? How much is the field going to change? What one thing is essential to know? All thoughts gratefully received!

“Much of what we do is done out of a sense of belonging.” agile.org.uk/rise-of-rela...

The first in our pre Crimbo coffee n chat sessions starts this week! And it's great to have Nahdia with us. Join us if you can.

We're back! See you next TUESday -- and note the change to easier-to-find #LEARNchat

Well worth a read if you care about the use of language as it relates to hard and soft skills. In particular, I think we should be using the word relational to describe some of this, as Meg says.

All these fab #LnDCoWork events are taking place in December. I will be one of the hosts for Manchester on 11th at Leven Hotel in Chorlton St. Why not join a session before the end of 2024?

A rising tide of e-waste, made worse by AI, threatens our health, the environment and the economy theconversation.com/a-rising-tid...

We've created a WhatsApp channel where we will be sharing links to research and insights. We are just trying it out to see if it is worth doing! You can sign up here whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

The meme I didn't know I needed

I've read quite a few posts recently about L&D wanting cut-through with senior leaders. It has got me thinking how much exec teams know or understand about human performance and productivity. Isn't this the place to start if you want to look at performance in a holistic way - educate first?

Wow. Using GPT-4o, researchers have replicated the personality and behaviour of more than 1000 people, in an effort to create an alternative to focus groups and polling. Agents are amongst us www.newscientist.com/article/2457...

Insights Media launches "Into 2025" event series to help learning brands and learning professionals stand out in the year ahead learningnews.com/news/insight... @martincouzins.bsky.social

What will be hot in workplace L&D in 2025? It's time for the annual L&D Global Sentiment Survey! Take 2 minutes to share your thoughts: www.research.net/r/DHTS-SB-25 Choose up to 3 options from a list of 16, and also let us know your L&D challenges for the year ahead. #GSS25

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Enterprise L&D: The late Karen Brethower wrote about "Maintenance" back in 1967. Keeping the behavior in place after the initial Change effort. You can read/download the free 12-page PDF on the website of Fred Nickols, Solution Engineer: www.nickols.us/Brethower.pdf

Here is the third of my #Sketchnotes from @thelearningnetwork.bsky.social 's Connect conference on Friday 15 November 2024. This Sketchnote is from @juliedrybrough.bsky.social's session 'Creative Disruption: Understanding Your Learning Edges'.#VisualThinking #LearningAndDevelopment #Disruption

More return to office research. Looking forward to when organisations return to talking about flexible working again so we can all be liberated from the RTO narrative 😆 www.personneltoday.com/hr/return-to...

Nice to be in the big smoke …

See, all my old friends reminded me of Tweetdeck and that there is a version of that for Bluesky. deck.blue

Off to the Charity Learning Consortium conference and awards. Anyone on here going? If so see you soon!

Thoroughly enjoyed last week's Learning Network Connect . . . here's my summary insightsmedia.co.uk/articles/lea... #learning