Simon Greany

What are the secret ingredients for a healthy culture? How should you be designing compliance learning? What does a CEO look for in a successful L&D team? And finally… How can the challenge culture help transform your organization? We took a slightly different approach to Learning at Large this week, speaking with Nigel Travis, Executive […]

How do you socialize learning design methodologies to get the support you need from your business? How should you approach deploying learning across multiple languages and cultures? How can you spot exceptional learning designers at an interview? And what does it take to engage salespeople with learning? We’ve pulled out five top takeaways from Simon’s […]

How can up-skilling your workforce help keep up with change? Why does digital learning need a change of pace? How you can use xAPI to build new insights into performance? and mostly importantly… What do Happy Days and Game of Thrones have to do with eLearning design? These are the all-important questions answered by Jon […]

How can ‘performance adjacent learning’ contribute to learner retention? Why are nuance and complexity essential to gathering performance metrics? How do you keep up with best practice? We’ve pulled out the 4 top takeaways from Simon’s conversation with Karen Hebert-Maccaro, Chief Learning Experience Officer at O’Reilly Media, who supports over 2.5 million technical specialists worldwide.  […]

With learning design at its heart, this episode is useful for: practitioners looking to build a team that will make a real business impact, designers wanting to create effective, user-friendly learning experiences, and learning leaders looking to make the most out of learning curation. This week, we’re lucky to have two guests from Aviva – […]

What does a bottom-up approach for delivering learning look like? Which types of learning experience build better engagement? How do you benchmark the effectiveness of your learning strategy? In this episode, Nick Shackleton-Jones puts his theories into the context of an L&D leader, with practical guidance and real-world stories. We’ve pulled out the 6 top […]

How do you build high performing teams? How can a digital environment keep learners progressing? What is psychological safety? And how can organizational values trickle down to something meaningful at a team level? We’ve pulled out 8 key takeaways from Simon’s conversation with Tom Marsden, CEO of technology company Saberr. About Saberr Saberr enables entire […]

How can you demonstrate business value early on to control groups? How do you identify the right business problems to solve? How do you decentralize learning and development to support a more scalable learning culture? Lars Hyland, Chief Learning Officer at Totara Learning answers these questions and more – check out our 5 key takeaways […]

What simple changes can improve user experience? What does a successful learning culture look like?  How can giving permission to learn prompt cultural and organizational development? In this episode of the Learning at Large podcast, Simon spoke to Sam Taylor – a learning leader for nearly 20 years. We’ve pulled out the 6 top takeaways […]

How do you convert emotion into actions? How can the power of storytelling help people learn? How can you get people to get into a mindset where they’re prepared to take action on something they care about? We’ve pulled out the 6 top takeaways from Simon’s conversation with Daniel Hunter, Global Training Manager at 350.org.  […]

We talked about What CLOs can learn from product designers? How can you show the value of L&D by linking it to business impact? How do you build a successful learning culture? In this episode of the Learning at Large podcast, I talk to Paul Goundry, Head of Learning at Utility Warehouse, who shares a […]

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We are on a mission to promote learning design techniques that work. In this series of articles, we share insights from the data we’ve collected from thousands of elearning projects, to help boost your elearning strategy. Here, we help you calculate the real cost of your elearning, whether you produce it in-house or outsource it, […]

We’ve looked at the cost of learning time, and now we are turning to the optimal length of a piece of elearning. Should it be short and sweet, or in-depth and involved? Of course it depends on the type of content, context and audience. However, there are some rules of thumb you can apply to […]

Personalization is a big buzzword in L&D, and so it should be. Target your learners with specific content and support to help them move from A to B, in their context. This way you’re not only being more efficient with their time, but you’re more likely to see results. With smart analytics, you can then […]

We’re all about empowering teams to create better learning, quickly. While we’ve always provided a range of layouts and interactions that work across all devices, we’ve now gone a step further. With our new Layout Designer, you can now create pages however you want. And, no, you don’t need to be able to code. You […]

Make sure your learning venture is meeting learner and business needs by giving its production the right start. In this article, we share five tips to help you get to the heart of the problem you’re trying to fix and ensure your learning projects stay relevant. Our recent Elucidat articles provide guides on smartening up […]

Have you considered reshaping your elearning production process to support modern learning principles? In this article, we’ll explore how collaborative technology can remove crucial barriers that are holding back – and slowing down – your elearning process. How can you take the best of collaborative working practices and reshape your elearning production process so that it […]

Is your standard elearning process working smart enough to support modern learning? In this article, we share three common process pitfalls and explain why they may be holding you back from creating smart elearning. In our new guide on how to use smarter processes, we pose two questions. Does the common elearning development process best meet your […]

Are you using old, inefficient elearning authoring processes? In this article, Simon Greany will explain why modern elearning requires you to use smarter processes. Online, mobile, and technology-enabled learning is set to keep rising as 53% of corporate learning and development (L&D) teams plan to increase their investment in digital learning this year. And it’s no wonder […]