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Learning Trends
Lead interview
19 & 20 November 2008 • NEC Birmingham
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Conferences and awards: Elliott shares his knowledge
just as a way of delivering learning, off almost sounds counteractive, but I don’t established field and it’s more of a stable
a local network or on a disc, but more mean it that way – I would arrange to field. You’ll see people in the UK who’ve
importantly to link people from the social spend a period of time outside of the been in their careers longer. I think the UK
dimensions of learning. Large companies learning field. If you work at an airline tends to be less trendy than we are here
collaborate with each other that ordinarily in the learning department, work in in the US, and I think that’s a good thing.
would either have seen themselves as the baggage or reservations area. It’s Here, you’re more likely to have the ‘Co-
competitors or just not have had the really important for learning people ordinator of sector 5, Director of Mobile
basis for collaboration. Now, I’ve sort of to understand the reality of the the Learning’, which all sounds very cool and
become a safe haven for people to work businesses they serve. I don’t see enough trendy, but I bet they’re not in those jobs
positively together. learning people who really get their hands in 12 months’ time. The other difference
dirty in the fields that they’re training. that I see is that there are actually more
Another greatest achievement was men in training here than the UK. Possibly
teaching my 80-year-old mother how to In your opinion what can L&D because the UK has a longer history of
go on email and getting some of friends professionals change when they industrial situations and industrial training
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What advice might you give to L&D charts that say the total number of people share an almost common language, but is dedicated to providing you with the very
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use yourself. Like you’d never cook a dish we kept the talented people? Have we Would you agree that chief learning
you wouldn’t eat yourself. We’ve got to got our products on the market faster? officers in the US contribute more
make sure we’re actually consuming the Show me the impact, show me where the directly to organisations compared
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and then say they don’t like going to I think that’s the theory. We certainly do
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