Category Archives: Learning

State Government Conference

IPAA NSW (Institute of Public Administration) is hosting a one-day conference on THURSDAY July 22. The conference is expected to provide an exciting and topical program including keynote addresses from notable politicians, as well as national and international speakers. If … Continue reading

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Retention or Transfer of Learning – What’s up?

  Do people retain what they learn?   It’s a continual struggle to prove the value of learning let alone validate whether someone not only learned from training but are actually applying it. In my personal and professional experience of … Continue reading

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Using Powerpoint Better

Death by PowerPoint View more documents from Alexei Kapterev. Have to say I, like many trainers, am guilty of using ppt as a prompt as much as a learning tool. Alexai and others serve to remind us that less can … Continue reading

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Live and learn

Live life as if you will die tomorrow, learn, as if you will live forever                                                                                    Mahatma Gandhi In these times of negativity, it is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture.  Under threat, our natural tendency is to … Continue reading

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Action Learning

Wow! Dr Michael Marquardt is an undisputed king of Action Learning.  Recently he took a group of us through the process and theory behind conducting Action Learning and it was brilliant. I learned even more about the technique and found … Continue reading

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