l&d

We still have the same primary goal, i.e. to enhance organisational performance through employee learning and development, and we're still working in the same four primary skill areas, i.e. strategic l&d management, the design of interventions, sourcing and developing learning materials, and facilitating learning and development on a person-to-person basis.

Big Question: What new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals? Clive Shepherd 2009

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of this tool is the facility it provides for instructional designers and other l&d professionals to assemble simple 3D games without a PhD in rocket science.

Archive 2009-01-01 Clive Shepherd 2009

I also take the chance to debunk a whole load of the pop psychology which has held back l&d for decades.

Riding the change curve Clive Shepherd 2009

I can't see a future for those l&d professionals currently in denial and just hoping all this will blow over.

Big Question: What new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals? Clive Shepherd 2009

Twenty-five years ago, every l&d professional or training officer as they were called then would have been familiar with every medium then available, i.e. overhead projectors, flip charts, black/whiteboards, 35mm slide projectors, VCRs, etc.

Big Question: What new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals? Clive Shepherd 2009

The corporate classroom brought with it the professionalisation of corporate l&d, as specialists were increasingly required to teach in the new classrooms.

Low carbon learning and communications Clive Shepherd 2009

I immediately began to wonder where l&d professionals were on the change curve when it comes to engaging with new media.

Riding the change curve Clive Shepherd 2009

Well,contrary to many commentators, I am not so sure that l&d professionals need to tear up the rule book and start again.

Big Question: What new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals? Clive Shepherd 2009

I wouldn't be surprised if 80% or more of all those now involved in l&d earned their living directly or indirectly from classroom training.

Low carbon learning and communications Clive Shepherd 2009

The problem for me is that a great many l&d professionals have fallen behind in their continuing professional development - the world has changed much faster around them than they have managed to change themselves.

Big Question: What new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals? Clive Shepherd 2009