Big US Merger Signals Banks Have Put the Financial Crisis Behind Them Two large regional US banks, BB&T and SunTrust, recently announced a “merger of equals” that will create. America’s sixth-largest bank. The deal is the biggest US bank merger since the height of the global financial crisis,which saw huge distressed sales such as Bank
Learning Technologies 2019: 3 Key Takeaways Last week at the ExCel, London, the Learning Technologies 2019 conference took place. With more than 8,500 visitors, 150 free L&D seminars, over 200 exhibitors, an exhibition hall packed with the latest learning technologies, innovation and best practice and the industry’s leading L&D conference, it provided a unique and exciting environment
Maximising the potential of the connected workplace for individual and organisational success. In an earlier blog, we examined the emerging phenomenon of the connected workplace, driven by an increased need for teamwork in a time of business transformation and supported by the emergence of increasingly popular digital collaboration tools. Against the backdrop of current and
The Connected Workplace: Ringing the Changes of a New Era in Collaborative Working We can see the impact of digital connectivity all around us, from interpersonal relationships to politics to consumer purchasing patterns. The corporate workplace, however, has been arguably much slower to jump onto the ‘all things social connectivity’ bandwagon. But that is changing
5 Tips for Active Listening Why Listening Is More Courageous than Speaking Talking is easy. Listening – as opposed to simply not talking – is hard. We all know that sometimes it takes courage to speak, but what about the courage it takes to listen? Listening is not about just being quiet, but about
The Road Ahead: Trends 2018 – The Best of the Rest As well as the big trends that we previously reviewed in our series of The Road Ahead: Trends for Learning in 2018, there are, unsurprisingly in this time of rapidly evolving technologies, several other burgeoning trends worth watching. In this article, we review some
Well-being, People and Productivity – Get on this Trend Mill Perhaps you had a little organization envy recently when a friend told you about his free weekly yoga classes, part of a company-wide focus on health and well-being? This and other similar health initiatives are part of an ongoing workplace trend gaining traction as
The Road Ahead – Trends for Learning in 2018 – Content Content is King? There are those who will argue that content is and always was King: though, depending on your focus, it does seem to have taken a back seat for a while now. Today, ‘content’ wrestles with some of the ‘newer kids on
The Road Ahead – Trends for Learning in 2018 - Personalization It’s a big word and a big topic and it seems to be everywhere. It goes hand in hand with some other topics we’re hearing and seeing lots about, such as UI/UX, the learner journey, data and data analytics, next gen LMSs and Learner
The Road Ahead – Trends for Learning in 2018 - Video This is the year to invest in video learning. Why? Because everyone prefers watching videos to reading, and Internet data seems to bear that out. Some 3.25 billion hours of video are watched every month on YouTube1. So, video is mainstream, and has been
