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How do we prevent digital fatigue in learning?

How can learning avoid adding to digital fatigue, perhaps even provide better variety and relevance to stimulate engagement?

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Getting ahead of the future skills revolution

For your business to survive and thrive you need to be aware, agile and adaptable enough to cope with changing and volatile markets. You need to have the right talent and skills to innovate, create new products and drive transformation.

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Successful Leadership Development in the Post-COVID World

The pandemic has reshaped the world of work, creating new skills, challenges and threats. Leaders are now facing unprecedented uncertainty, yet with change comes opportunity. Hemsley Fraser has been developing engaging learning experiences focused on leadership and skills leaders need to succeed in a post-pandemic world.

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How COVID-19 has led to an evolution of learning culture

The number one challenge for L&D professionals is adopting a learning culture enabling them to become more agile and responsive to the changing needs of their markets.

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How can L&D better support employees and the business to meet the moment?

A lot has changed about our working world in the last 12 months, & though some are awaiting the day we get ‘back to normal’, some differences are here to stay.

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Why Apprenticeships? Why Now?

In 2017, the UK Government introduced the Apprenticeship Levy to encourage companies to invest in training their employees in key areas that would address the UK skills shortage. Until the end of July 2020, employers could use their Levy pot to fund the original Apprenticeship Frameworks (qualification-led) or to pay for the newer Apprenticeship Standards (occupation-led) that are developed with “Trailblazing” employers. Apprenticeship Standards are related to what is needed in the workforce - leading to employees that are capable and qualified in that future role (not just the theory, but having applied it throughout their apprenticeship).

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Employee competencies & development for a digital age

Employee competencies and development are going to need to be a careful balance of different behaviors and skills in the digital and virtual working age we are now in.

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Preparing L&D Professionals for the Age of Self-Service Learning

In January 2020 at the Consero Corporate Learning & Development Forum, over 45 heads of learning from global organizations met to discuss the question: is the learning function dead in the age of self-service?

After all, with vast content libraries like LinkedIn learning and Coursera easily available, and with millions of “free of charge” learning resources accessible through Google and YouTube… L&D is no longer the single creator of content, nor is it the single delivery provider. What is the primary role of an L&D function in such a content-rich environment, and why should senior management invest in an in-house learning team?

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Developing resilience: today's must-have competency

People describe resilience in many different ways: as ‘mental toughness’, ‘emotional stability’, ‘grit’ or ‘perseverance’. Perhaps more helpfully, we can think of resilience as the capacity to respond effectively to pressure and ‘bounce back’ from difficult situations - our levels of resilience determine how quickly we return to a state of equilibrium and become functional again.