Is empathy having its moment?
In 2009, I facilitated a meeting with a client from a global hospitality brand. It was a very culturally diverse group and represented a range of professions: marketing, operations, and human resources.
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Ian Luxford
Learning Specialist. With over thirty years of experience in learning and communications across diverse industry sectors, I bring extensive knowledge and passion for performance improvement. I work closely with clients, to get a deep understanding of their challenges and develop solutions that deliver a measurable difference to their businesses.
Why invest in training for your greatest asset
The skills market is littered with challenges at the moment. Employers need to save costs, while increasingly demanding more of their people and trying to retain them.
Fear of tech worker exodus puts pressure on HR
Almost half (46%) of young UK workers in tech roles plan to leave their job within the next year, according to research from HR technology company Hibob and global venture fund Eight Roads.
Small experiments may be better than high-risk pilot schemes
Organisations should look to move away from big-budget pilot schemes when trying to introduce new ideas into the workforce.
If It’s Working So Far, Keep Going – You’ll Know When You’re There
The mythunderstanding that’s probably been corrected 10,000 times is still being perpetuated, even in some quite learned works.
Pause. Touch (The Flipchart), Turn (Back To The Audience), Talk…
Does it make you cringe when you are being presented to by someone who thinks they are a really great communicator and really isn’t?
Looking Back At What Took Us Forward
It didn’t always feel like a revolution then, but how far we’ve come.
It's twenty years since Martyn Sloman gave us his excellent book, The e-learning revolution.
In Tough Times, Values Matter More Than Ever
Almost a year out from the moments when all our lives started to change in ways we had never imagined, we decided to take stock of how our core values have held out through the turbulence.
Myths, Legends, Stuff We Need To Re-think
Learning from experience - be very careful, especially now.
For thousands of years, we have known that humans learn from experience. In the last hundred years, we have found out a lot more about the neuroscience behind this and why it is such an effective way to learn. If we want to learn to do something, we should definitely try to get stuck in and experience it.