Recently I had the opportunity to view and access a new cloud-based Onboarding Module launched by Cognology. My video review of this module can be viewed below: I was impressed with the module mainly due to its ease of use and flexibility. The ability for the new hire to work through their Onboarding process in a […]

Welcome to my blog on this exciting occasion where I wish to make a very special announcement. I am pleased to announce to all of you that as of Monday 5th September 2016, LearnKotch Consulting, my freelance learning and performance consulting business will come to an end as I move into a full-time Learning Solutions […]

You know what they say – “It’s not what you know but who you know.” Well, this applies to finding your next role. Whether you have been recently retrenched, coming back into the workforce after a long spell away or simply looking for a career change, networking is a skill you need to develop and […]

The last few months of the year are always exciting for me, it means Christmas is around the corner and everyone is in a good mood. It is also a time of the year when a number of L&D reports are published – and boy I love a good report! I was fortunate enough to read a […]

Here we are – on the eve of the next group match between Wales and we are looking good, but my focus is not that much on the future but on the past. It all started with this tweet: An then I got a reaction – which of course I was after ! You see, […]

Over the last number of months I have been actively involved with the Learning and Performance Institute  (LPI) in the UK.  They were one of the initial groups to embrace me and support me in my journey as a L&D consultant. As I have said in the past and more recently in my guest blog on New […]

So I am on Twitter one evening and participating in what I class (aside from #Ozlearn) one of the best weekly tweet chats on L&D – #LDinsight and I see a tweet from Andrew Jacobs discussing the skills of L&D and some comments made about eLearning: And so I responded: After a brief discussion with Andrew, we […]

This is a copy of the blog post I wrote for Feb 12th 2015 #NZLEAD tweet chat. Even though it has a HR flavour the concepts discussed are relevant to L&D as well. ========================================================================= Recently I participated in a tweet chat #LDINSIGHT on what ways can L&D show value to the business: https://storify.com/liammoore/in-what-ways-can-l-and-d-show-the-value-of-l-and-d This got […]

In late 2014 I was asked to do a Q&A response for the Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) as part of a new series they were launching on their new Learning Professional Network site.  Due to some strange IT issues, my response was not able to be received by the LPI, thus I have decided to post this Q&A on […]

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,200 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 37 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the […]

This blog post has been written for me by one of the Secret Santa elves… # 5 Things I Learned in 2014 “Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” ―Brad Paisley Well another year is coming to a close. There were ups and there were downs. There […]

Hi and welcome to my blog. Firstly this post is dedicated to my beautiful family who have shown me the ability to strive through adversity and to maintain my smile and sense of belief – no matter what hurdles and obstacles are placed before me ! So here we are – my first book review on my blog […]

We have the honour of welcoming Charles Jennings, Director – Internet Time Alliance to our #OZlearn Tweet Chat on Tuesday 11 November 2014 at 8:00 p.m. (AESDT) 9:00 a.m. (GMT). In preparation for this chat, Charles has written the following blog. Please take time to read this blog post from Charles in preparation for our chat. No […]

Hi and welcome to my blog. After a recent exhausting Five Day Work Out Loud Blogging exercise I took a break but I am now back…. Firstly though I do wish to thank every single one of you who either read, commented and supported my recent Work Out Loud blogging – your comments and wishes have spurred […]

Well if you are reading this, you will know that I have made it ! Starting as a challenge on an #Ozlearn tweet chat and putting into reality this week, I never really thought I had it in me, but as true L&D Professional I persevered and here I am (and in one piece). In […]

Well here we are – Day 4 – and the end is near… Today I have been inspired by a twitter conversation with a fellow HR professional I met on Twitter via the recent AHRI National Conference:  Malcolm Pascoe (@malpascoe). This interaction combined with my reading of Jonathan Kettleborough’s recent blog post on changing the name of […]

Hi all – welcome to Day 3 and I am half way there… Today I had the privilege (yes it is a great privilege) to meet up with my Third Place group. It is so great to be part of such a diverse bunch of people, yet we all have one thing in common – we […]

Welcome to Day 2. As the blog heading says, my blog is L&D from a different perspective. What does that mean – well that means telling it as it is. Classic case in point – everyone has jumped on the MOOC bandwagon, we have cMOOCs, xMoocs, SPOOCS, SPOCS – now really this has gone too far […]

Well here we are – its Monday and my commitment to a blog a day, as part of Work Out Loud initiative from Ozlearn, has commenced. Now I am new to blogging so I have not yet mastered the art of links to twitter handles, tweets, other blogs and all that fancy stuff – so what you […]

Gee it has been a while since I last blogged and I have so much to say and write about – but I have to resist the temptation and “Practice what I Preach”. A number of things have irked me this week but then again a number of other things have inspired me – so […]

Over the last few days I have received notifications of new blogs posted by various L&D professionals. As I opened one after the other I noticed a very alarming trend. We are in L&D and we advocate short sharp bits of information for our learners.  We tell our designers that people should not be made to read longer than […]

This month #ozlearn is discussing the benefits of benchmarking and I am proud to host a blog post by Laura Overton (Managing Director of Towards Maturity) to discuss how we can realise the potential of online learning Please join us on Tuesday  8 July at 8:00 p.m. (AEST) or 11:00 a.m. (BST) via our Ozlearn tweet […]

I have been following the conversation by @cpappas 10 Advantages to Becoming an eLearning Freelancer: http://elearningindustry.com/10-advantages-becoming-elearning-freelancer and the follow up rebuttal post by Jason Fletcher on the ELNet Site: http://elnet.com.au/index.php/news/blog/entry/10-disadvantages-of-being-an-e-learning-consultant And I realised one thing: How great and liberating it feels to be free. Yes Mr. Fletcher I do my own cleaning, my own accounts and I […]

If anyone ever questions the power of Twitter, well listen to this story. Travelling from Canberra to Melbourne last night – plane lands and taxing to gate.  Plane is at gate and we are told we are able to use our phones. I do as all others do and get my bag down from the […]

Well after years of talking about it and promising to do it I have finally taken the plunge. Thanks to all my PLN for their support and encouragement in getting me to here. Over the next few blogs I will be referring to them personally. What can you expect on LearnKotch blog – well if […]