The leadership communications specialist CloudQast has taken delivery of a 1964 ‘classic’ Airstream Globe Trotter caravan. This 16-feet long example of touring history will become CloudQast’s ‘creative headquarters’ in St Albans – the venue for the creative scriptwriting for CloudQast’s many video-based learning and development (L&D) materials. CloudQast director, Damian [...]
The leadership communications specialist CloudQast has hit on an unusual, highly creative and successful business strategy to bring it customers: it writes poems. CloudQast director, Damian Gaskin, explained, “When we encountered the credit crunch, in 2008, a number of our customers reduced their budgets and that affected CloudQast’s activity and income-generation. [...]
Leadership communications specialist CloudQast has announced that it’s able to produce interactive video on the iPhone following the release of iOS10 this September. CloudQast director, Damian Gaskin, explained, “Interactive video on the iPhone hasn’t been possible until iOS10 without expensive bespoke applications. The release of iOS10 changes that and our platform is ready to [...]
Only three out of ten organisations are achieving improved productivity and engagement from their L&D initiatives, only two out of ten have seen improvements in the learning culture of the organisation and only four out of 10 are achieving increased efficiency as a result of their training strategies, according to the 2015 Towards Maturity Benchmark [...]
LearnKotch, in association with The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI), is pleased to announce Australian support for Pathways to Excellence, a service designed to rapidly accelerate learning and development (L&D) departments to a high standard of capability and business performance. Pathways to Excellence follows on from the LPI's Capability Map, which has become the [...]
Instructional designers, trainers, e-learning developers, learning management system (LMS) administrators, employee and management development professionals, along with organizational development (OD) specialists, are being invited to discover best practices to ensure the maximum return on investment (ROI) in learning and development (L&D). These essential tips and techniques are being revealed via a webinar, organized by [...]
We’re all encouraged to see problems and challenges as opportunities. The only thing is, though, that sometimes there are insoluble opportunities. After more than 20 years, the HRD conference and exhibition – held, this year, at Olympia in London at the end of April – appears to be presenting its organisers, CIPD Enterprises, [...]
Research (available from http://goodpractice.com/blog/resources/discover-the-learn...), carried out by GoodPractice, has revealed leaders’ and managers’ preference for informal or social learning. The study found that the biggest challenge faced by leaders and managers relates to having difficult conversations with team members. This ranked far ahead of all other issues discussed in the research, with over [...]
