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Corporate Brochure

Learning specialists tell us that their challenge is to develop people with superior skills, knowledge and experience. Their organisations and the markets in which they operate are demanding ever greater efficiencies, which can only be achieved by improving performance throughout the workforce ...
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Are You Cutting It? How to reduce your cost of learning by 30%

Learning & Development teams are under pressure to make significant reductions in training costs. At the same time, organisations recognise a business imperative to continue training, to maintain workforce skills. Kevin Lovell explores how large organisations can resolve this tension and satisfy both demands, however, the solution may not be what you expect ...
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Independence Day? - Proprietary vs vendor-independent managed service providers

65% of large organisations are seeking to outsource at least part of their learning function. There are many Managed Service Providers (MSPs) who can help with this, which fall into two broad categories: proprietary and vendor independent. This paper explores this fundamental distinction between different MSPs ...
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Addressing the Talent Shortage

The Rise of the Managed Learning Service. The talent shortage has become the number one issue for CEOs. L&D is increasingly being seen as key to closing the skills gap. But how do hard-pressed L&D teams step up to this challenge without losing control or increasing headcount. This paper examines the trends in L&D outsourcing, and how a managed service approach can free up resource, save costs and deliver improved service levels. Enter the Managed Learning Service ...
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Getting the Value out of Evaluation

KnowledgePool, the managed learning services company, has launched a white paper outlining a new approach which learning & development practitioners can use to assess their training portfolio and measure the impact of their learning interventions ...
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Emerging trends in Central Government L&D

Read the notes from the workshop sessions which covered three topics: How will you know if you really are achieving more with less?, Learn for free! How can you encourage informal learning? and How do you get line managers on your side? ...
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Improve Your Productivity by Avoiding the Knee-Jerk Reaction to Training

Take a perceived training need at face value and you could be treating a symptom, not the cause. Sam Mather explains how line managers can improve performance by avoiding the knee-jerk reaction to training and how a diagnostic procedure holds the key to a more holistic approach ...
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How to Implement Successful e-learning

Using a simple model to explain what factors encourage learners to use e-learning, Kevin Lovell, KnowledgePool's Learning Strategy Director, takes a look at how organisations can ensure their e-learning initiatives are successful ...
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Intend to Blend?

KnowledgePool's approach to designing effective Blended Learning solutions ...
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Bringing Out the Learning

Kevin Lovell, Learning Strategy Director at KnowledgePool, examines the growth of outsourcing in learning & development, the benefits of 'Managed Learning' and what to look for in a supplier ...
First published by theHRDIRECTOR magazine, Issue 41, November 07. Reproduced with permission.

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