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My colleague Kim recently commented on the fact that she was having regular conversations with clients about the difficulty of maintaining communication and contact between team members working across multiple locations. In the new hybrid working environments, with staff working from offices, remote locations and from home, more communication than ... Read more...

Like any responsible company, RSVP Design regularly takes the time to check what we’re doing with available measures of what our markets need. We’re lucky in that we have regular dialogue with many of our customers, but every now and again we step back and look at the big picture, and there’s none bigger than the World Economic Forum’s ‘... Read more...

      We’re often asked about the benefits of including a strong experiential activity component in a programme of learning, to the extent that I have an answer that will usually sell the idea, even to the most sceptical:“Why choose to focus 100% of your available learning time on what you, and the participants, probably know ... Read more...

                                It seems that, after several apparent false-starts, a great number of us are returning to predominantly face-to-face learning events. This is both welcome and long-anticipated- even those most committed to virtual learning... Read more...

I took some valuable time out last week to think about how best I can contribute to RSVP Design’s work, and that period of reflection led to some interesting insights about the new(?) skills that leaders are going to need to deploy if they are to continue to be effective. And, by implication, how we develop candidates into leadership roles. My ... Read more...

                              In recent weeks I’ve had some pretty low-energy conversations with people working in organisations. It could be the political climate, it could be the time of year, it could be the weather… I’m not going to try to interpret ... Read more...

                        I’m a runner. Being a runner is a key element of my identity, it’s been part of who I am for as long as I can remember and it’s never been more important than it has over the past couple of years. No matter what restrictions we’ve lived under, no... Read more...

This is the third in a series of linked pieces about the deployment of Experiential Learning “in the workflow”. In the previous two pieces I’ve demonstrated why this is not a viable proposition: If it’s happening in a way that fits any definition of ‘learning in the workflow’ it isn’t experiential learning. If it fits any ... Read more...

In our October blog I talked about the features that allow us to recognise whether a learning environment can authentically be recognised as Experiential Learning. This definition largely depends on whether we can recognise David Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle (ELT) as the core model being utilised. “The ELT is usually represented as a ... Read more...

It’s clear that the past couple of years have been a massive challenge to anybody tasked with delivering learning to either adults or young people. To those of us who have a belief in, and commitment to, experiential learning, this challenge has been both interesting and somewhat divisive. There are practitioners who have become even more ... Read more...