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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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The unique power of experiential learning - have you truly discovered your employee's potential?
We’re often asked about the benefits of including a strong experiential activity component in a programme of learning, to the extent that I have an answer that will usually sell the idea, even to the most sceptical:“Why choose to focus 100% of your available learning time on what you, and the participants, probably know ...Read more -
Returning to the training room - the two questions to ask to determine if you're ready
It seems that, after several apparent false-starts, a great number of us are returning to predominantly face-to-face learning events. This is both welcome and long-anticipated- even those most committed to virtual learning...Read more -
Facilitators in new hybrid workspaces - are they our next generation's leaders?
I took some valuable time out last week to think about how best I can contribute to RSVP Design’s work, and that period of reflection led to some interesting insights about the new(?) skills that leaders are going to need to deploy if they are to continue to be effective. And, by implication, how we develop candidates into leadership roles. My ...Read more -
How to Solve Motivation Problems - Insert Trust into the Equation
In recent weeks I’ve had some pretty low-energy conversations with people working in organisations. It could be the political climate, it could be the time of year, it could be the weather… I’m not going to try to interpret ...Read more -
New Year - New shoes, New tools or both?
I’m a runner. Being a runner is a key element of my identity, it’s been part of who I am for as long as I can remember and it’s never been more important than it has over the past couple of years. No matter what restrictions we’ve lived under, no...Read more -
How to use experiential activities for the 50% of learning that is vital to efficient performance, but can't be done 'in the workflow'
This is the third in a series of linked pieces about the deployment of Experiential Learning “in the workflow”. In the previous two pieces I’ve demonstrated why this is not a viable proposition: If it’s happening in a way that fits any definition of ‘learning in the workflow’ it isn’t experiential learning. If it fits any ...Read more -
Delivering Authentic Experiential Learning “In the Workflow” - Is It Even Possible?
In our October blog I talked about the features that allow us to recognise whether a learning environment can authentically be recognised as Experiential Learning. This definition largely depends on whether we can recognise David Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle (ELT) as the core model being utilised. “The ELT is usually represented as a ...Read more -
Revisiting a definition of Experiential Learning in a world of restricted delivery
It’s clear that the past couple of years have been a massive challenge to anybody tasked with delivering learning to either adults or young people. To those of us who have a belief in, and commitment to, experiential learning, this challenge has been both interesting and somewhat divisive. There are practitioners who have become even more ...Read more -
Facilitating or Learning - are you ready to get back in the training room?
Stepping out of a training room, be it physical or virtual, with a sense that you’ve left a group of learners both happy and inspired is a great feeling, one of the professional highs that make working as a facilitator such a buzz. What’s also a buzz is leaving a training room with the sense that you’ve offered your learners a big ...Read more -
Bold gestures that support learning - interesting research for facilitators
I’m a great one for using my hands when I’m trying to communicate, and I find that the more self-conscious I get about this trait the poorer my communication gets. I was aware of this, but hadn’t given it too much thought until I recognised that one of the negative effects of the past 18 months is the extent to which the many hours of Zoom ...Read more