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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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Do you have the experiential edge to develop self-reliant learners?
What happens to a group of participants in a learning programme once they’ve gone back to their workplace? Assuming we’re not contracted to engage in structured follow-up this is probably a nagging and persistent question. If the group are in the same organisation as us then it’s relatively easy to find out - perhaps as easy as ...Read more -
ATD 23 Conference & Expo in San Diego (May 21-24)
We are delighted to be back attending live Conferences and particularly excited to be returning to Live Exhibitions and having the chance to meet people at ATD in San Diego in May! If you plan to visit the ATD 23 San Diego Expo between May 22nd and 24th, come visit us on Stand 1439! We’ve attended many ATD events over the last 20 years and ...Read more -
How You Can Help Your Leaders Lead
One decision that faces designers of learning experiences in organisations is how to integrate and include the leaders of the groups involved. Do I ignore the workplace hierarchy and simply integrate the leaders into the experience? Do I mirror the workplace and have the leaders continue in that role during the activity? Do I create a special place...Read more -
How to Plan The Most Effective Start To Your 2023 Training Programmes
When I wrote the last posting for 2022 I suggested that, when it comes to designing learning programmes ‘It’s all about the endings’. Now we’re into 2023 I’m going to recognise that there’s a whole new year ahead of us and we need to accept that, while it’s got huge potential for reward, it also needs some ...Read more -
What's The Most Effective Way To Close Your Learning Programme?
Think of your favourite films, or your favourite books, what is it that sticks in your mind the most? Plot? Characters? The quality of the cinematography or writing? All of these tend to draw us in and make reading / watching a pleasurable experience, but what’s most often cited as making the experience stick in the mind are the opening ...Read more -
Is Your Action Planning As Effective As It Could Be?
I often need to persuade clients that the ‘future-focused’ element of a learning initiative (call it action planning, visioning, learning transfer etc etc) can be, indeed should be, delivered in exactly the same way as the ‘developmental’ elements. There seems to be a strong desire to isolate the action planning phase from ...Read more -
Do You Recognise The 2 Common Traps When Designing Effective Learning?
How to design and develop an effective learning experience is a question that routinely arises whenever facilitators and/or organisations are faced with the challenge of provoking change. They may have a detailed knowledge of the learning population, they may understand the changes that are needed, yet so often they experience significant ...Read more -
Gamification - How can it help behaviours change and learning stick?
Gamification - How can it help behaviours change and learning stick? The landscape of learning constantly changes as academics and practitioners develop new insights into how the brain works and how this might influence the way we go about encouraging individuals to develop. As this happens L+D professionals are faced with myriad choices in ...Read more -
Are You and Your Team Getting the Most Out of Hybrid Working?
My colleague Kim recently commented on the fact that she was having regular conversations with clients about the difficulty of maintaining communication and contact between team members working across multiple locations. In the new hybrid working environments, with staff working from offices, remote locations and from home, more communication than ...Read more -
Benchmarking Experiential Learning Against Global Workplace Skills Required for 2025
Like any responsible company, RSVP Design regularly takes the time to check what we’re doing with available measures of what our markets need. We’re lucky in that we have regular dialogue with many of our customers, but every now and again we step back and look at the big picture, and there’s none bigger than the World Economic Forum’s ‘...Read more