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| The dilemmas and tough choices facing learning and development today | |||||||||||||
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Professor Chris Bones, Dean Emeritus, Henley Business School, Professor of Creativity and Leadership, Manchester Business School | ||||||||||||
 Chris Bones has seen the learning and development function from both sides. As Cadbury Schweppes’ group organisation effectiveness and development director, he made sure L&D was business-focused across the group. At Henley, and now at Manchester Business School, he deals with a wide range of business issues, of which learning is just one. This experience has led Chris to conclude that there are two types of learning function – and that only the one which makes an impact is likely to survive in the current climate. • The two sorts of L&D function: the quick and the dead. • What makes an L&D function effective – or not. • Why alignment to business strategy and communicating this is essential. • How to get alignment. • Three practical steps to make your department thrive |
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| e-Learning 3.0 Learning with the extended smart web | |||||||||||||
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Professor Steve Wheeler, Associate Professor in Education and ICT, University of Plymouth | ||||||||||||
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As the web continues to evolve we see trends emerging that open up an exciting range of new opportunities for learning. In this session, Steve Wheeler explores new and emerging web features, and speculates on how learners might benefit from the current trends towards smarter, more accessible collaborative web environments. The Semantic Web - or Web 3.0 - is already here, but what are the challenges and opportunities it brings with it as it extends its influence? Steve will examine the development and application of intelligent and context-aware mobile and handheld devices, and offers some discussion on how we may harness the power of these technologies in the near future. This session will feature: • Augmented and virtual reality. • Semantic Web technologies. • Wearable and handheld devices. • Mobile and ubiquitous learning. • 3D visualisation and interaction |
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| Learning and development: changing how, what and where we learn | |||||||||||||
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Ewan McIntosh, EwanMcIntosh.com | ||||||||||||
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Most of the companies and start-ups that we admire for their speed to market and smart solutions to real problems see learning as a crucial part of their DNA. Even if the return on investment of time, energy and opportunity cost comes months and years later, if at all, learning is at the core of every great new idea. Drawing on his experience with large corporations, small start-ups and the education sector, Ewan will examine what can happen when learning ceases to be something that’s done to you and becomes something you live every working day. • Learning is not about training courses, nor is it measured in service days. • What are the working processes that involve learning as a key part of creative work? • What can we learn from the world's most creative and learning-centred companies? • What next steps can you take to transform learning from add-on to core? • The myth of the digital native and why learning fast isn’t just a young person’s game. |
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| Making sure you and your team are performing to your best | |||||||||||||
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Steve Smith, British record high jumper and Olympic medalist | ||||||||||||
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Feeling squeezed between reduced budgets and tighter deadlines? So are plenty in L&D right now – and in these times, delivering performance has never been more important. For both inspiration and some practical guidance in raising our game, we turn to Olympic medallist, British record holder and award-winning speaker Steve Smith. Both by using sport as a metaphor and by drawing on practical examples, Steve will suggest ways of ensuring that you and your team are performing at your best. • Identifying what good performance looks like. • Finding and building on your unique strengths. • Controlling the controllables. • Setting goals that inspire, stretch and produce results. • Focusing on what really matters. |
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| Winning with a high-impact learning culture | |||||||||||||
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David Mallon, Principal Analyst, Bersin & Associates | ||||||||||||
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Creating a strong culture of continuous learning is critical to the success of any high-performing organisation in today’s rapidly-changing business environment. Research shows that companies with strong learning cultures are 18% more likely to be a market-share leader in one or more of their markets. David Mallon, a leading analyst of learning solutions and technology, learning tools, LMSs, social networking, content management and learning 2.0, will share his findings on high-impact learning cultures and offer provocative insights, strategies and best practices for improving bottom-line business results. This session will cover: • The High-Impact Learning Culture model. • An overview of the 40 high-impact learning culture practices. • Practical examples of success for each high-impact learning culture practice. • Actionable guidance for improving or implementing each practice. • Seven strategies for L&D or HR to get started improving overall learning culture |
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| The dilemmas and tough choices facing learning and development today | |||||||||||||
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Lee Sheldon, Professor of Creativity and Leadership, Manchester Business School | ||||||||||||
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Chris Bones and Lee Sheldon are co-presenting Further details Following the successful merger between Henley Management College and the University of Reading on 1 August 2008, Professor Christopher Bones was appointed Dean of the Henley Business School. Prior to this Chris had been the Principal of Henley Management College from January 2005 to July 2008. Chris is also non-executive director at The Working Manager. Chris was previously Group Organisation Effectiveness and Development Director for Cadbury Schweppes, who he joined in 1999, taking responsibility for Executive Education and Development Culture, Communications, Change, Knowledge Management and Capability Development. In his 22 years in business Chris has worked for Shell, Diageo (both in GrandMet and Guinness) and Cadbury Schweppes. He started in industrial relations, working on the UK's largest oil refinery and progressing through management teams in brewing, retailing and property to Board roles covering Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific. He has significant international business experience and a reputation as a leading practitioner in executive education and development, change and HR strategy. Chris writes a regular column for HR magazine and is a highly regarded speaker at international conferences on change, HR strategy and employment branding. He was a member of the Budd Commission on impartiality in the BBC's coverage of business news in 2006. He is a Board member of the Skills for Government, the sector skills council for the Civil Service, Chair of the Supervisory Board of AIESEC International, a member of the Advisory Board of Saville, PLC and an Independent Non Executive Director of the Agricultural and Horticultural Levy Board. |
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