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Connection in a disconnected world: why learning experiences matter more than ever
I was in conversation with a long-time friend of RSVP Design last week, discussing the present state of workplace training; we'll be heading out to Washington DC for the ATD Exhibition this week and I was wondering what I might expect. Part of her response really stuck with me and I've thought about it a number of times since:
"We've never had a ...
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Practicing Before the Pressure: Building Negotiation Skills that Stick
The literature of Leadership Development has many advocates for an approach characterised as ‘learning on the job’. Strong voices that tell us that the best way for leaders to hone their skills is through the visceral, first-hand practice of leadership itself. I’ve got some sympathy for this viewpoint, there are some parts of leadership ...
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Are you developing teams beyond a culture of blame?
Even a cursory browse through the huge volume of literature about great teams will reveal that there's an understandable interest in how they just seem to 'get it right'. There often follows a prescription to help other teams follow that path to success. We read about aligning individual contribution, solution-focused communication, building a team...
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Do you focus on what you’ve learned, rather than what you’ve achieved?
I was challenged by a friend recently; she was making the point that we routinely ask clients to represent the complexities of situation or organisation in a way that reduces them to banal simplicity. What she asked me to do was to capture my life as it is today in a single representational diagram. I made several starts, only to abandon an attempt...
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DON'T invest in learning (invest in behaviour-change instead)
I know I've written about this before, but it's important and it keeps coming up in conversations I have with L+D people so I feel it would be timely to ask a few questions about how learning in organisations is understood. As you'll know I'm a specialist in experiential approaches to learning, so I'm going to look at the subject from that ...
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Our Approach
We offer dialogue and partnership with every client to ensure that the training products and learning design services they purchase from RSVP Design offer the best response to their personal, and organisational development needs.
What informs our work?
We have a close working relationship with many people and institutions around the world who are at the cutting edge of research into learning. Our understanding of what makes learning stick is built into the DNA of every product and process we deliver. We have more than 30 years experience in designing and delivering experiential learning - whether commercial products for sale, or using our understanding of what works to create effective and engaging learning inputs.
Our Approach to Training Tools
After many years of working inside of client organisations we recognise that there are some learning and development needs that will always be present when people need to work together to deliver a target. These recurring needs are what many of our training tools are designed to deliver. However as every organisation is unique we design our training tools to be versatile and adaptable to the particular circumstances, of where and when they are used. We don’t rely on expert facilitation, but we ensure that with a bit of familiarity, our tools will be effective in the hands of any line manager or L&D professional. If you need a particular training tool to meet a particular learning outcome, we will design it for you.
Our Approach to Learning Design
Our approach to learning design is always customer-led. We are proud of our expertise in the field of learning but acknowledge that our clients know their own organisations better than us. This allows us to practice true partnership working, rather than just preaching its benefits. We do not adhere to any particular model or source of learning content, but will consider any method or approach that, in our professional opinion, will deliver the learning objectives that underpin our contract with a client. At the heart of our work you will always find experiential learning approaches, because we believe that these approaches massively increase the potential for people to learn.