Staff Induction in a Post-COVID World
Induction in the time of Corona I Is it just me, or does March 2020 feel like a LONG time ago? I still remember the early rumblings of uncertainty as the pandemic tightened it’s invisible grip. By late March, the irreparable shift in our socio-economic landscape was finally starting to hit home for most of […]
Locking down the lockdown video
It seems like forever since we were able to bring people together safely to shoot educational videos, yet the number of videos being developed has risen during the crisis as alternative modes of communication became impractical. Organisational video production has gone from a team exercise to one involving video selfies. Considering the majority of selfie […]
June Course Updates
Courses Updated All courses have been updated remotely in recent months – generally these reflect details from legislative changes. You don’t need to do anything as we update your course remotely. Free Course Offer Still Open We extended an offer to all councils two months ago of access to seven free eLearning courses related to […]
Online Outdoors – Free National LG Initiative
Recently a council in regional Queensland managed to bring all outdoor workers online. Their solution was elegant and effective and resulted in exceptionally positive feedback from staff. LG Online Learning has engaged with the team leaders to work through the project in detail and compile lessons learned. We are proposing to run a free group […]
LG 2020 – new rules for Victoria
The LG Online learning consultation phase has progressed to the group phase as we address the request to create a course to explain the new conflict of interest rules that will affect all council officers from September. A course outline has been finalised and will address many of the questions and requests from the two […]
An ethical framework for learning analytics
Judging from the ATD conference agenda, more people thinking about Learning Data. That’s a great thing. As we see from the topics there, we’re on the cusp of doing some really exciting things with it. Already I’m seeing people achieving some really laterally-minded objectives. I’ve heard one team looking at how to forecast whether a […]
This is going to be fun…
We’ve all heard the (apocryphal) Chinese curse ‘May he live in interesting times.‘ It doesn’t get a lot more “interesting” than 2020 does it? Covid-19 has turned the work on its head in just a few short weeks. According to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, “We will be living with this virus for at least […]
The trainer’s duty in a pandemic
The world’s never the same after a pandemic. After the black death killed half the population of Europe, peasants learned new skills to allow them to replace deceased workers and escaped serfdom forever. The 1918 “Spanish ‘Flu” led to the creation of the WHO – a worldwide coordinated approach to improving health. There is a […]
Scenario-based learning – a quick guide
As a former lecturer, I say this with a degree of sheepishness but I hate being lectured to! I want my learning to be individual and fill me with curiosity. It should allow me to explore, collaborate, discuss. When I design eLearning and professional training, I always try to remember that – to treat others as […]
The lazy training genius
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” (Thomas Edison) Over time, we L&D professionals accumulate significant amounts of legacy content. We know this content needs periodic updating. The updating process may initially seem like a drag. But it can also be seen as an opportunity to […]
