Democratisation of Learning In a presentation recently a learned scholar dropped the phrase a true “Democratisation of Learning”. I wanted to better understand the expression’s application from an academic perspective and how it applied to the work I was presenting. Firstly the term it is not the study of Democracy but instead the principles of democracy as applied to learning. …
Building FOTS solutions which integrate with operations has direct influence on your profits. If you need a quick reminder of what FOTS or Feet on the Street is, you can start here. What solution works best for your business and where to start? Approaching a build can be challenging but having built numerous solutions here are the major considerations …
Recruitment is one of the oldest roles in business since the dawn of time. So how does modern technology and tools help optimise and enhance the process? Looking at each of the separate steps within just the Hire stage alone, this article suggests some tools which could help refine your business approach to recruitment. Business solutions should change to fit …
Empathy is the single most important skill of customer care and the single hardest ability to learn. How do you imbue your team with empathy? “I understand how you’re feeling.” “Do you? Do you really?” Defined as the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the …
Pretraining is a departure from standard HR practices which greatly enhances the recruitment process. So how do you implement Pretraining for your business? Usually associated with Psychology, pretraining is training which takes place prior to another activity, specifically in advance of an experiment or test. When used in the context of HR it means to train someone before they are …
Parent-child relationships, one to many relationships and foreign keys are the basics of databases. What are they and how are they useful? Technically those names all represent the same thing yet why so many names? This article looks from a business perspective at the power of this concept and how it can be harnessed. Whilst a very early concept …
Exploration is the action of exploring an unfamiliar area. Yet is there really anywhere left to explore? Oh yes there is you just haven’t gone there yet! Ever think, I’m bored? As part of staving off “the boredom of repetition” we are encouraged to “try new things”. Yet given global transport, global knowledge and all the information in the world is …
Standard measures are internationally approved amounts and counts to help countries inter-operate. Yet for programmers they pose massive challenges. This article looks at some of the most common measures and how they pose challenges when internationally used. Based on over a decade of writing systems for international use here are some of the primary challenges I’ve encountered and how I …
Voting psychology or “voting behaviour” has an influence in business as much as politics. So as a manager should you ever allow things go to a vote? Following the recent political elections globally it is evident that voting brings out the strongest of emotions in people. So how as a leader do you consider your team’s feedback and opinions without …
jQuery is a JavaScript library which can be included in web pages to make JavaScript programming on the page easier. Do you need it? Is it worth it? This article presents an introduction and “both sides of the aisle” view of the technology and what it can provide. Often programmers can include libraries “for the sake of it” which leads …
