Author Archives: Helen Blunden

About Helen Blunden

Helen Blunden has over 24 years experience in learning and development across private, public and not-for-profit organisations. With a specialty in workforce social learning and collaboration, Helen believes that workplace learning is integral to business success. She has a passion for enabling people to learn beyond the classroom through networks and communities that drive collaboration, co-operation and meaning within their organisation. She uses social and informal learning through effective use of enterprise social networking and collaboration tools and platforms and is an advocate of "working out loud" on her blog.

Inspire Learning in the Workplace

I don’t know about you but it’s rare that any mandated traditional training inspires me anymore. Whether it’s completing annual compliance e-learning programs sitting on an LMS or being told by a manager that I have to attend an event to learn about a new service or product that may or may not be relevant […]

Four myths of Social Learning

In the last couple of years, I have spoken to many corporate Learning and Development practitioners about how they may support and enable opportunities for their workforce to learn collaboratively with each other in and during the flow of their every day work. That is, “social learning’. During these conversations, I noticed that there were […]