Choose to Challenge is the campaign theme for this year’s International Women’s Day – on the basis that a challenged world is an alert world. We can choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequity. We can choose to seek out and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive [...]
For training professionals the question is: How can we cater for everyone, free from assumptions, while anticipating the nuanced needs of participants, some of which will be related to their age? The pandemic meant that a lot of training changed beyond all expectations — no more flying around the world for conferences or classroom sessions. [...]
The current situation has presented companies of all shapes and sizes with brilliant opportunities – but also worrying realities. Until now, it was easy to think that change stems from being in a room with like-minded people and a trainer. But the pandemic suddenly shone a spotlight on technology – and this gave us some [...]
We got used to the WFH challenge, and we’re only now waking up to the blended challenge. So, what can leaders do to adapt to the hybrid working model? A major point for consideration is inclusion – or rather, the potential for excluding remote colleagues. Senior Associate for PDT Global, Paul Brady, discusses the need [...]
Please note our exciting news that Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG), the provider of services and software for digital learning and talent management, has acquired our firm. We have been merged with Affirmity. Affirmity, a US-based organisation headquartered in Irving, Texas that provides a robust portfolio of software, services, and training solutions that help [...]
People with disabilities are under-represented in the workplace. Gender is often touted as a more important priority for diversity and inclusion activity – because more than half the population is female. But people with disabilities make up the next largest group yet they are often overlooked. Even when organizations do seek to include people [...]
One thing we have all been taught from a young age is that words matter. Have you really wanted to speak about a topic affecting minority groups but stopped and thought: "Wait, can I say that?" If you look through history, you can see a direct correlation between slurs being socially acceptable, and strife [...]
Disasters such as the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion and the Chernobyl nuclear accident are said to have involved flawed decisions, driven by individual perceptions. Not surprisingly, individuals’ behaviours—and the perceptions that drive those behaviour's—are key to determining the safety performance of an organization. Angela Peacock explains why the insurance industry can’t risk downplaying inclusion [...]
We need to take what we have learned from last year’s social needs, geographical restrictions, and the human desire to own something we can control and talk about the factors that will truly inform strategies in 2021. Director of Learning, Nic Girvan, talks screen fatigue, budgets and training that is outside of the usual [...]
Change tends to bring a mixture of brilliant opportunities and worrying realities. In times of crisis, there are those who get creative — and those who resolutely stick with what they know. In Nic Girvan's latest article for Chief Learning Officer, she shares just what the pandemic has taught us about L&D Read [...]