Tag Archives: change
Another lesson in learning from children
Learning is a funny thing. We have formalised a sytem of classrooms, evaluation, experts and students that can often reduce our opportunities to help others learn as well as limiting our own ability to learn
Last week I wrote about 3 things I learned about change from my daughter and next week we'll have an excellent [...]
One way to break through corporate inertia
A couple of postings ago Paul mentioned working with a very traditional organisation trying to promote the brain friendly message. Since then quite a few of you have asked what happened next. In this post, Paul explains the rest of the story and shares his experience of how brain friendly learning reduces the pressure on learners to read up on course materials to ensure training success.
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ROI and double standards
Last time we talked about Kirkpatrick’s model for evaluation and how important it is to use more that just level one especially in today's economic climate .
While I was writing that piece I found myself getting more and more annoyed and, as I worked through why, the keyboard was taking more and more punishment, the [...]
Evaluation is NOT hard…
... but it is essential
A couple of weeks ago Ally and I spent an extremely enjoyable day with the Brain Friendly Learning Group, a UK networking group for brain friendly trainers set up by Stella Collins.
In the morning we ran a session about music in the training room (there will be much more on this [...]




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