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Are you developing teams beyond a culture of blame?
Even a cursory browse through the huge volume of literature about great teams will reveal that there's an understandable interest in how they just seem to 'get it right'. There often follows a prescription to help other teams follow that path to success. We read about aligning individual contribution, solution-focused communication, building a team...
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Do you focus on what you’ve learned, rather than what you’ve achieved?
I was challenged by a friend recently; she was making the point that we routinely ask clients to represent the complexities of situation or organisation in a way that reduces them to banal simplicity. What she asked me to do was to capture my life as it is today in a single representational diagram. I made several starts, only to abandon an attempt...
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DON'T invest in learning (invest in behaviour-change instead)
I know I've written about this before, but it's important and it keeps coming up in conversations I have with L+D people so I feel it would be timely to ask a few questions about how learning in organisations is understood. As you'll know I'm a specialist in experiential approaches to learning, so I'm going to look at the subject from that ...
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Training Awards and the Importance of Engagement
Being recognised within the Learning and Development industry to the extent that we are made recipients of specific awards always fills me with curiosity. Why us? Why now? Why this particular award? Don't get me wrong, it's a curiosity that stems from great pride in what we do, but simply accepting any award without asking questions risks ...
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How Could Experiential Learning Shape the Future of Leadership Development?
Here at RSVP Design, we're always keen to read and discuss any survey that comes from our colleagues at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). The latest focus of our attention is 'The Top 20 Leadership Challenges' published in July 2024.
RSVP Design learning tools are designed to be versatile, and many of our customers worldwide ...
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Are you developing teams beyond a culture of blame?
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Do you focus on what you’ve learned, rather than what you’ve achieved?
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DON'T invest in learning (invest in behaviour-change instead)
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Training Awards and the Importance of Engagement
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How Could Experiential Learning Shape the Future of Leadership Development?
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One Simple Process to Multiply Learning ROI
In recent weeks I’ve been leading the delivery of a major RSVP Design experiential behavioural simulation. Ive taken senior leaders from one of Europe’s top telecoms companies through a deep and extended process of learning. The simulation was embedded in a Business School programme that gave the leaders the tools and frameworks they would ...Read more -
5 Cultural Differences to Acknowledge When Facilitating
We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for a ROCCO Business Award this year for International Trade by the Renfrewshire Chamber of Commerce! The winner will be announced at the awards night on 20th November – finger’s crossed! This had us thinking about all the different countries and cultures we have visited, and who has ...Read more -
4 Basic Facilitation Skills for Trainers
The week of 19-25th October 2015 is International Facilitation Week and sees facilitators around the world engaging in a whole series of activities, events and programmes to celebrate the power and the art of facilitation. Under the guidance of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF), facilitators all over the world will be ...Read more -
7 More Reasons to Consider Using Blindfolds in Your Learning Programmes
7 More Reasons to Consider Using Blindfolds in Your Learning Programmes 1. Slow the Pace –in my experience blindfolded participants tend to slow down, listen more attentively, and allow opportunities for others to speak. If it is important to slow the pace down, reduce people talking over each other, and generally calm down then consider ...Read more -
Where are the Antifragile Learners?
Antifragile Education Two years ago I read Antifragile by Nassim Taleb, and, ever since, I’ve waited to see some evidence that the undoubted common sense in this book would translate into the world of corporate learning. Taleb himself identified education as a bastion of fragility. He made a great case for real learning only ever happening ...Read more -
Reasons to Consider Using Blindfolds in your Learning Programmes
As I am contemplating yet another very large order of blindfolds from China (we sell lots of blindfolds as components in our Colourblind® training activity!) it has me wondering about what other uses that blindfolds can be put to – in a training & learning context! A blindfold may be an inexpensive training tool, but it can be very versatile...Read more -
Teams Have Changed - How We Need To Develop Them Needs To
For many organisations, the idea of having a permanent workforce has gone for good, and with it any notion of working teams that have any kind of stable membership. A study by software company Intuit suggests that by 2020 there is likely to be more than 40% of the US workforce who will be classified as “contingent” (freelancers, temps, part-...Read more -
Learning Tools from the Top Business Schools to Develop Scotlands Young Workforce
RSVP Design, based in Paisley, has been designing training materials for organisations like Apple, TNT and Walt Disney since 2003, and through its partnership with the Center for Creative Leadership in the US, it has signed an agreement to be the first UK organisation to distribute their experiential learning tools. This is great news for local ...Read more -
#16 How much time should I allow for a review after using an experiential activity?
Client Enquiry: How much time should I allow for a review after using an experiential activity? RSVP Design Response Our rule of thumb when working with RSVP Design activities is to schedule a minimum of the same amount of time for the review as for the activity itself. So from a learning facilitation point of view run your activity until a ...Read more -
Leadership Learning - Getting to What Leaders Actually Do
If you have a professional interest in Leadership Development, then sooner or later you will need to move away from exploring what leadership is, and focus on what leaders really do. Coming from a background in experiential learning this seems just so obvious, yet it’s becoming more and more frequent that I encounter leadership development ...Read more