• Dec 3, 2015 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm
  • Location: Online
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Revealed: the truth about the learning lives of managers

Owen Ferguson, Chief Operating Officer, GoodPractice

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Managers are crucial to learning in organisations. They decide who has time to learn and when, and their attitude towards the L&D department can determine how entire departments approach it. But how do managers themselves learn and how can L&D influence them? Recently GoodPractice engaged with ComRes to ask 500 UK managers what they get up to behind their L&D department’s back. In this webinar the results – published at the end of November – are aired online for the first time. Be warned, though: you won’t like everything they say.

  • What do managers do when L&D aren’t looking?
  • How do they REALLY cope with challenges?
  • What two factors most influence how managers choose to learn?
  • Where do they go to find the stuff that’s crucial for their work?
  • What practical actions can L&D take away from this ?


Owen Ferguson


Owen Ferguson is Chief Operating Officer for GoodPractice, a company devoted to supporting leaders and managers in the workplace. Owen started his career in L&D as an internal consultant, and later manager, with a number of FTSE 100 companies. Seeing the growing potential in learning technologies, he joined GoodPractice nine years ago and was formerly director of the product development team. Passionate about performance improvement, Owen and his team use data, user-centred design and pro-active experimentation to develop and refine online solutions to real-world problems. Owen is a Fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute.



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