Eight key trends for learning and development

Learning Technologies 2014: Eight key trends for learning and development

Personnel Today – February 2014

This article gives a brief summary of what was trending at the recent Learning Technologies Exhibition held at London Olympia on 29^th and 30^th January 2014. MTP also visited the event so we were interested to read an alternative view.

Those who can’t, teach

Those who can't, teach - Schumpeter, The Economist, 8th February 2014

Following the article ‘Build it and they may come’ in The Economist of 18th January, this week’s issue has another interesting piece by Schumpeter. It is a hard hitting article titled ‘Those who can’t, teach’ which suggests that business schools are poorly managed. Two reasons for this are identified.

HBR’s 10 Must Reads - book review

‘HBR’s 10 Must Reads’ published by the Harvard Business Review

This is the latest of twelve books in this series, which started over three years ago.  It is yet another example of Harvard Business Reviews’s well-known tendency to recycle its best articles, though this is no reason to reject such a potentially useful idea.  For anyone involved in business discussions, it is impressive to show a good overall understanding of what has been written on key management topics.  Therefore this review is not just about this particular book but also about the usefulness of the series as a whole.

Why Leadership Development Programs Fail

by Pierre Gurdjian, Thomas Halbeisen, and Kevin Lane from McKinsey Quarterly - Jan 2014

This article puts forward a straightforward - and to some extent simplistic - approach to the challenges of designing and delivering leadership training.  It does however cite interesting real-life examples of what went well and where mistakes were made.