Author: Dr. Geoff Cox

RSVP Design has a team out at the ATD23 Conference in San Diego soon, and we’re getting ready for a lot of good conversations packed into a very short time. A big international conference is always a buzz, meeting customers, distributors, colleagues whom we haven’t seen in so long, and hopefully attracting many new people to our stand. ... Read more...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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? 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...

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...

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...