By Dr Lydia Cillié-Schmidt In today’s organisations, leadership development is no longer limited to the traditional executive, managerial and supervisory roles.  The Modernizing Leadership for a Digital Economy survey (http://learn.skillsoft.com/Website-AR-CLO-Mastering-Leadership-Dev-for-a-Digital-Economy.html)  by the Human Capital Media Research and Advisory Group in partnership with Skillsoft found that organisational structures require more people at all job levels to Read more about Does your organisation have Learning Paths/-Journeys for Leaders?[…]

By Dr Lydia Cillié-Schmidt Recently the term “Learning Journey” started cropping up more often in blogs and articles and I started to wonder whether there is a difference between the terms Learning Paths and Learning Journeys. I specifically searched for definitions of the two terms and although I could not find many, I am providing Read more about Learning Paths and Learning Journeys – what is the difference?[…]

By Dr Lydia Cillié-Schmidt I have always been an advocate of formal mentoring programmes in a corporate environment but have recently started to think that we should provide mentors and mentees with even more support in the structuring of the activities and conversations in the mentoring process. I have been reminded of this again in Read more about Using Learning Paths to provide corporate mentors and mentees with more structure to achieve proficiency[…]

By Dr Lydia Cillié-Schmidt I have just attended the 41st International Congress on Assessment Center Methods (in partnership with the UK-assessment Centre Group) from 9 – 10 October 2018 and would like to highlight three of the sessions that I have attended. Earlier this year I wrote about the Global Leadership Forecast report by DDI, Read more about Feedback on the 41st International Congress on Assessment Center Methods[…]

By Dr Lydia Cillié-Schmidt The 70:20:10 learning model is not a strict formula and is according to Charles Jennings (director of the 70:20:10 Forum) a reference model based on the general observation that the majority (70%) of learning in the workplace is done on the job, around 20% comes from social learning/interacting with others and Read more about Using Learning Paths to implement the 70-20-10 learning model[…]

By Dr Lydia Cillie-Schmidt Every year I am forced to clean out some stuff on my bookshelves to make place for new things. This time I came across a pile of old Training and Development (T+D), Management Today and Strategic HR Review magazines from 2008. Coincidentally, The Talent Hub was also established in 2008 and Read more about Making informal learning more visible[…]