What’s wrong with Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary School for Boys?
It isn’t often that a TV programme inspires me to write a blog but I found myself watching ‘Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary School for Boys’ on BBC with an increasing mix of frustration and envy. If you...
View ArticleChange Management – an experiential approach?
I’ve had a number of conversation recently around the subject of change. These have ranged from clients looking to drive change through fairly typical ‘large group meetings’, to struggling how to get...
View ArticleIs organisational learning really learner-centred?
This was the question I was asked this morning by an interviewer who telephoned me and wanted to include my response in an article for a training journal.It was 1130 and she wanted to go to press by...
View Article‘Learn Like a Leader’ : stories about learning
I’ve just written a review of a book for the next International Association of Facilitators’ Newsletter and it connected so well with RSVP Design’s current work on ‘Leadership Learning’ that I wanted...
View ArticleRSVP Design and Interel form new partnership!
I am delighted to announce that Interel Inc. from San Francisco and RSVP Design Ltd. are forming a new partnership that will see their respective product portfolios merge and both organisations work...
View ArticleInformal, work-based learning: are you keeping up with the shift?
Everything that I am reading at the moment from the ‘movers and shakers’ in the world of organisational, management and leadership learning convinces me that there are some exciting new insights that...
View ArticleA whole new landscape of learning……
As the spring weather moves towards summer my runs on the mountains and moors of NW England become longer, and I can once more indulge myself in extended and deeply-reflective hours of solitary...
View ArticleMotivation for learning
I read a really interesting BBC article describing how there is strong evidence that universally praising children can de detrimental to their growth, and encourages a ‘fixed mindset’ rather than...
View ArticleLearning Power Workshop Feedback
As part of our commitment to bringing the concept of Learning Power to businesses, public and third sector adult learning groups, we worked in partnership with NHS Dumfries and Galloway to offer a...
View ArticleThe Best (and worst) of Corporate Universities
Corporate Universities are, almost exclusively, found as appendages of big corporations. In the USA the HR-driven corporate university has represented to a very high degree the choice of large...
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Building an Organisation of Independent Learners
I’ve had several conversations recently about the role of Organisational Learning and Development in a world where information is virtually free, instant and ubiquitous. Within those conversations...
View ArticleRSVP Design provides experiential learning resources to ILM to help learners...
The Institute of Leadership and Management ( www.i-l-m.com ) and RSVP Design have teamed up to offer a range of experiential games, tasks and workshops that complement units in many of ILM’s Level 2...
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Thinking About Leadership Thinking
Here at RSVP Design we’ve just returned from a visit to Warsaw to work alongside our Polish colleagues at Pracownia Gier and Experience Corner. The theme for our visit was Leadership Development and...
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Making the Learning Link Between Emotion & Environment
Learning aims and objectives are familiar subjects for consideration in Learning & Development circles, but have you given any thought to the idea of capitalising on learning emotion? When you do,...
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Designing the learning OUT of a learning experience
We’re often asked to get involved in supporting clients in the creation of facilitators’ guidelines and other support materials for programmes that they intend to deliver to their employees. This...
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Making it Personal Around Design Projects: Reviewing Individual Contribution
I was chatting to a friend about different approaches to reviewing major projects recently: he’s a lighting designer who works with music artists and sporting events to create spectacular live shows...
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