Learning Skills Blog Posts

In our latest Expert Interview podcast, author and consultant Adrian Gostick tells us why everything gets better when gratitude gets better

Expert Interview, Learning Skills

What is the future of learning and development? Yolande Conradie presents her roundup of our recent #MTtalk Twitter chat

#MTtalk, Learning Skills

Are there really things that you only can learn by doing – like bike riding, or falling in love?

#MTtalk, Career Skills, Learning Skills

There's a reason why self-help is a multibillion-dollar industry. It offers a magical commodity – the shot at a better life. Read this, attend that, and before you know it, look! You're poised, confident and successful. It’s a beguiling promise. But does it work? The British journalist Marianne Power decided to find out. Picking 12 […]

Expert Interview, Learning Skills

Have you ever been astonished by a magician's trick, and then tried to work out how they did it? Maybe, in the cold light of day, you found yourself wondering why it was so easy for them to fool you! If so, then you've done more than just try to solve a particular bit of […]

Learning Skills, Uncategorized

Learning at work can be a serious struggle. If you're stretched to the limit, and struggling with all the stuff that's already in your head, how can you possibly learn anything new? In one organization I worked for, learning came to feel downright impossible! Maybe this rings a bell for you. Information was coming thick […]

All Posts, Career Skills, Empowerment, Learning Skills, Stress

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice." – Brian Herbert, U.S. author About This Week's Chat When I facilitate training at large organizations, or lecture to business school students from big corporates, I often hear the same complaints. For example: team […]

#MTtalk, Learning Skills

How can today's organizations keep up with the pace of change? For Bradley R. Staats, the answer is easy: we all need to keep learning. Most people would agree that sounds sensible. The hard part is making it happen. "That's really where, organizationally, we run into trouble," Staats says. He describes how this problem nagged […]

Career Skills, Creativity, Expert Interview, Learning Skills, Uncategorized

If you could go back in time, what advice would you give yourself when you were first starting out at work? Few of us forget our very first job. It’s often an exciting, yet nerve-wracking time. And whether you loved or loathed the experience, we bet you learned a lot from those first few years […]

Career Skills, Learning Skills

Why All Great Leaders Need a Mentor It's never easy to admit to yourself that your career may be going in the wrong direction, or that you've lost your "mojo," motivation or drive. But many of today's most successful business leaders once needed guidance from mentors. For example, technology titan Bill Gates credits business magnate […]

Career Skills, Empowerment, Expert Interview, Leadership, Learning Skills