When to use Yammer vs. Teams is a long-running discussion, but in this article, Yammer or Teams? A Tool to Think It Through (CMSwire, 23 Mar 2021) Sam Marshall explains that in crude terms, Yammer is about people, Teams is about documents. One of the examples he uses to demonstrate the difference is Communities of Practice. “Communities […]

The Summary of the recent article, In What a Year of WFH Has Done to Our Relationships at Work (HBR, 22 Mar 2021) is as follows “More than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic and WFH, new research from Microsoft shows that employees and teams are becoming much more siloed. In particular, connections with people outside our […]

In 5 Ways Additional Training Can Help Your Career – And When It Doesn’t (Forbes, 20 Mar 2021) Caroline Ceniza-Levine explains that whilst most training is a nice-to-have, it is not ultimately a prerequisite to many careers. There are some good reasons that training can help with career change or advancement, but there are also drawbacks […]

This is the summary of the article, Designing the Hybrid Office  in HBR Magazine (Mar/Apr 2021) “The natural experiment forced on the world by the coronavirus demonstrates that the academics and tech visionaries who have been talking since the 1980s about the possibilities of remote work were not exaggerating. After months of working remotely, we […]

In How HR Leaders Are Preparing for the AI-Enabled Workforce (MIT Sloan Management Review, Mar 2021) explores four workforce strategies that companies are pursuing as they await AI’s prevalence. The first is Doing Nothing. The second is Building Digital Skills. The third is Predicting job trends. Strategy 4 is Helping Workers Choose Their Own Futures … “Unilever is taking […]

In How Virtual Reality can Improve Online Learning (Virtual Speech, 12 Feb 2021) the authors explain how Virtual reality (VR) has the potential to take learning beyond the traditional online learning experience. One of the benefits is that it supports experiential learning “Experiential learning is a process of learning through first-hand experience. It’s a method of gaining […]

According to the TED Blog (15 Mar 2021), TED@Work reimagines TED Talks for workplace learning “TED@Work is a new product from TED that reimagines TED Talks for workplace learning. The program offers a curated library of TED content targeted to the learning needs of businesses, with new practical tools like Meetings-in-a-Box, reflection prompts and team discussion […]

Email courses are an easy way of creating targeted training. One way is it write all your email lessons in advance and then schedule them for delivery. Here’s how to schedule an email in Outlook (MUO, 15 Mar 2021) “Here’s a guide on how to schedule an email in Outlook. It doesn’t take more than a few […]

A recent article In Chief Learning Office Magazine (12 Mar 2021) talks about Moving from distance learning to learning distanced (CLO Magazine, and explains … “Learning distanced flips not only the terminology, but the way of thinking into a new paradigm that focuses on learning first and the fact that it is physically distanced second. How […]

The Start-to-Finish Guide to Planning Virtual Team Retreats (CMOE, Mar 2021) “Virtual retreats are a useful alternative to in-person retreats—not just during difficult times like when a global pandemic occurs. Retreats can help colleagues get to know each other better, overcome challenges, make decisions, engage in skill-building, or collaborate on plans and strategies.” More and more […]