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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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"What did you learn?"
December. The end of the year. End of 2018. The time when some are rushing into finishing 2018 resolutions. Some are doing last minute big life changes. Some are trying to reflect on the past year. December in RSVP Design is also a month of reflection. We reflect on what we have learned this year and what are we going to do next year. Our colleague...Read more -
5 Suggestions for Using Experiential Learning Methods to Develop Ethical Leadership
Can experiential learning methods contribute to the development of more ethical leadership? We generally think of leadership as setting direction, building commitment, influencing others and creating the conditions in which change can be implemented. But what underpins this, in order to make our leadership ethical and sustainable? Social media has ...Read more -
New research shows what’s so difficult about facilitating (debriefing) a game?
Facilitating learning is a strange kind of business, from the outside it often looks like an easy thing to do “You just watch folk doing stuff then ask a few questions”, while from the inside it can be one of the most physically and emotionally draining tasks you’ll ever undertake. So what is it about this kind of facilitation that, done well...Read more -
Are they doing it….differently (following the training intervention)?
Is there a question that you hear so often in your professional life that you feel you could valuably have a response card, or a recorded message, made with your answer? I have. My oft-repeated question is “How do you measure the effectiveness of the training / programmes / learning you design?” Now if I was designing learning that could be ...Read more -
Some suggested remedies to help cure Customer Service Blindness in your organisation
Customer Service Blindness I may be naive, but I don’t experience many occasions where customer-facing employees go out of their way to provide poor service. Sometimes it appears that the employee is having a bad day and, as a customer, you’re unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end of their indifference. These are the occasions when ...Read more -
Teamworking Skills: Its about Compatibility, not Cloning
With the (soccer) World Cup in full swing it’s probably no surprise that this months blog is focused on Teamwork and Teamworking Skills (we did contemplate drama but decided that not all the on-field acting was entirely wholesome). Something that’s long been accepted amongst those who are at the delivery end of Teamwork Development ...Read more -
Creativity? First Learn to Unlearn
As far back as the 1960’s we were aware that there was a problem with developing levels of adult creativity. Noted creativity guru George Land was asked by NASA back then to develop a way to assess the creativity of its engineers. It worked and, being a creative kind of guy, he used the same assessment to test the imaginative capabilities of ...Read more -
Updates from the 2018 Neurolanguage Coaching Conference and Their Relevance to Learning Design
Learning at Work Week 2018 takes place from 14th-20th May on the theme Networked for Learning. This initiative is an annual event, organised by the Campaign for Learning since 1999, that aims to put a spotlight on the importance and benefits of learning and development at work. In the spirit of this year’s theme, I attended the 2018 ...Read more -
5 Questions to explore your thinking about cultural differences!
I’d like you to stop for a moment and do this small thinking task. “I’m going to give you the names of three things. Please tell me which two of the three go together. A quick answer please - I’m looking for your first response. Ok…the three things are a panda, a monkey and a banana.” There are two obvious links - and I’m sure ...Read more -
Six Tips for Thriving on Positive Stress and Avoiding Distress
I’ve just put down the telephone after a twenty minute call with a potential client. That call - which she initiated and wanted - happened after ten days and three cancellations. She apologised and said, “We are so busy - I never stop and even finding time for a call is difficult!”In this age of change and stress and being ‘on the go’ the...Read more