LSG Webinars

Beyond knowledge tests – assessing employee behaviour and confidence

Kevin Beales, Managing Director, The Test Factory

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Testing employee knowledge to identify training needs and ensure standards may be an accepted norm, but how else can assessment be used to improve business performance? In this webinar Test Factory Managing Director Kevin Beales will draw on the experience of organisations such as Microsoft, HSBC and Johnson & Johnson to explore how online assessment can be

Mobile learning: developing an enterprise wide global programme

Trevor Drawwater  - Manager Excellence Global Learning Support at Jaguar Land Rover Academy and Dominic Mason, Head of Mobile at LINE

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Jaguar Land Rover, with partners LINE Communications, are rolling out a global programme to enable mobile channels to be used effectively for self-paced learning, for performance support, and as a point of sales tool, used alongside customers to demonstrate product features. Ce

Mobile learning: developing an enterprise wide global programme

Trevor Drawwater  - Manager Excellence Global Learning Support at Jaguar Land Rover Academy and Dominic Mason, Head of Mobile at LINE

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Jaguar Land Rover, with partners LINE Communications, are rolling out a global programme to enable mobile channels to be used effectively for self-paced learning, for performance support, and as a point of sales tool, used alongside customers to demonstrate product features. Ce

Transforming your organisational learning systems and culture

Nick Denholm, Global Learning Technologies Manager, Mars

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How do you get your organisation learning? That can be a challenge, and the larger and more dispersed the organisation, the bigger that challenge can seem. Nick Denholm, at Mars, had the advantage of learning infrastructure already in place – a traditional corporate university founded in 2004 – but needed to change and build on that to meet the learning leads

Transforming your organisational learning systems and culture

Nick Denholm, Global Learning Technologies Manager, Mars

Password: Lsg2012 

How do you get your organisation learning? That can be a challenge, and the larger and more dispersed the organisation, the bigger that challenge can seem. Nick Denholm, at Mars, had the advantage of learning infrastructure already in place – a traditional corporate university founded in 2004 – but needed to change and build on that to meet the learning leads

Using a collaborative platform for brilliant learning

Presenter: Jane Hart

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If you are looking to introduce more social approaches to learning in your organisation – from augmenting face-to-face events or socializing formal online learning, to enabling and supporting communities of practice - then Jane Hart will introduce you to the approach she has taken at the Social Learning Centre that makes use of a social collaboration platform to power the social (learning) activities

Using a collaborative platform for brilliant learning

Presenter: Jane Hart

Password: Lsg2012 

If you are looking to introduce more social approaches to learning in your organisation – from augmenting face-to-face events or socializing formal online learning, to enabling and supporting communities of practice - then Jane Hart will introduce you to the approach she has taken at the Social Learning Centre that makes use of a social collaboration platform to power the social (learning) activities

Integrating learning and talent management

Presenter: David Wilson

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Whilst companies may talk about Talent as an integrated concept, the reality is much more fragmented, replicating the functional silos that exist in most HR organisations. Based on independent corporate research, David Wilson, Managing Director of Elearnity, a leading European Learning and Talent Analyst, will discuss the opportunities and realities integrating learning with talent processes and systems. In p

Integrating learning and talent management

Presenter: David Wilson

Password: Lsg2012

Whilst companies may talk about Talent as an integrated concept, the reality is much more fragmented, replicating the functional silos that exist in most HR organisations. Based on independent corporate research, David Wilson, Managing Director of Elearnity, a leading European Learning and Talent Analyst, will discuss the opportunities and realities integrating learning with talent processes and systems. In p

Engaging line managers – The Holy Grail!

Presenter: Laura Overton

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No matter how good your learning programme and your materials, it may seem that your learners aren't engaged. Why? Because, as 8 years of research from Towards Maturity (TM) shows, the learning is not what engages them (or doesn't). They key player in learners' engagement is their manager. Consistently, TM research shows that 55% of learners say their manager is the most important influencer on using learning

Engaging line managers – The Holy Grail!

Presenter: Laura Overton

Password: Lsg2012

No matter how good your learning programme and your materials, it may seem that your learners aren't engaged. Why? Because, as 8 years of research from Towards Maturity (TM) shows, the learning is not what engages them (or doesn't). They key player in learners' engagement is their manager. Consistently, TM research shows that 55% of learners say their manager is the most important influencer on using learning

The truth about social learning

Presenter: Jane Bozarth

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Nowadays it's common to see terms tangled up: social media, social learning, collaboration, communities, social business, social strategies. Let's take a few moments to talk about terms and look at real ways organizations can measure the worth of social interactions, particularly as they pertain to learning.

• Definitions
• Social learning: it's not new
• Social learning: it's already happening in your organization
• Social

The truth about social learning

Presenter: Jane Bozarth

Password: Lsg2012

Nowadays it's common to see terms tangled up: social media, social learning, collaboration, communities, social business, social strategies. Let's take a few moments to talk about terms and look at real ways organizations can measure the worth of social interactions, particularly as they pertain to learning.

• Definitions
• Social learning: it's not new
• Social learning: it's already happening in your organization
• Social

Fear and loathing in social media

Presenter: Mark Oehlert

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Some people fear social media. Others loathe it. Both are natural human reactions, and to introduce social learning into organisations, argues Mark Oehlert, requires a human solution to this resistance, rather than the technological solutions so often celebrated.

In this session, Mark draws both on his work at the Defense Acquisition University and on case studies from elsewhere to illustrate how human solutions are

Fear and loathing in social media

Presenter: Mark Oehlert

Password: Lsg2012

Some people fear social media. Others loathe it. Both are natural human reactions, and to introduce social learning into organisations, argues Mark Oehlert, requires a human solution to this resistance, rather than the technological solutions so often celebrated.

In this session, Mark draws both on his work at the Defense Acquisition University and on case studies from elsewhere to illustrate how human solutions are

Transforming learning and development

Presenter: Clive Shepherd 

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Do any of the following apply to you? Budgets for training and for travel are flat or reducing. Managers are finding it harder to release their staff. L&D professionals are apprehensive about new learning technologies. You have had a poor experience in the past of using rather tedious self-study e-learning. You are reluctant to compromise on the quality of your solutions. You know you really do have to ma

Transforming learning and development

Presenter: Clive Shepherd 

Password: Lsg2012

Do any of the following apply to you? Budgets for training and for travel are flat or reducing. Managers are finding it harder to release their staff. L&D professionals are apprehensive about new learning technologies. You have had a poor experience in the past of using rather tedious self-study e-learning. You are reluctant to compromise on the quality of your solutions. You know you really do have to ma

The future of learning is open

Presenter: Steve Wheeler

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The use of personal technologies and social media is burgeoning across all sectors of education and training, resulting in a growing body of openly available user generated content. Learners are creating, organising, sharing and repurposing this content in a number of new and creative ways. Teachers are also increasingly engaged in the creation, repurposing, filtering, curation and delivery of digital content. This rais

The future of learning is open

Presenter: Steve Wheeler

Password: Lsg2012

The use of personal technologies and social media is burgeoning across all sectors of education and training, resulting in a growing body of openly available user generated content. Learners are creating, organising, sharing and repurposing this content in a number of new and creative ways. Teachers are also increasingly engaged in the creation, repurposing, filtering, curation and delivery of digital content. This rais

Well being and corporate learning

Presenter: Jay Cross

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Happy employees are 31% more productive on the job and make 37% more sales. They are 200% more creative than their sad peers. Happiness is but one aspect of well being. Researchers have correlated well being with academic performance.

Join Jay to talk about the notion of well being and its importance on the job. We'll look at what makes people happy, how this impacts working and learning, and what you and your organization