I get really fed up with all the talk and so little real action around lifelong learning.

For me, learning is a skilled and individual process, and if I have one driving ambition in life it is

to encourage more people to take true responsibility for their own learning.

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Train the Trainer workshop outline

Behavioural learning objectives and indicative content questions for a one day event

Train the Trainer programme

The detailed programme for the above event.

30 point learning diagnostic

I will get this up to 50 soon, but there is enough here to work with - help yourself...

10 principles of adult learning

This list by Sylvia Downs is wonderfully powerful and concise. I really like this.

100 things I have learned about learning and learners

This is a rather raw list of notes made whilst keeping a learning log. That said, it will be real use to anyone who really wants to learn more about learning.

A learning log sheet

I have kept a hand-written record of my personal development since February 1987 - long before

ever hearing of lifelong learning or continuous professional development. This is the simple format

I still use, over 1200 entries, and well over 950,000 words later.

How I use my learning log

A one page, list of seventeen ways I have put my learning log to use.

25 point handout for short CPD sessions

Typically a short 45 minute or so session, so a lot to get through!

A list of the 65 Learning and development Powerpoint slides by title

All 65 slides summarised - whether you want them as slides or not there is a lot of resource here

Go to my new look online shop and access online all 900 in 19 sets .

Nine generalisations around learning from work

An activity I use to stir up debate during workshops with a lifelong learning theme. Feel free to download and use or modify.

50 tips for learning loggers

Here are some hints and tips I'd have found useful when I started my learning log in February 1987.

Eight key learning skills article  

Published in Training Officer, April 1998, inspired in no small part by observing the development of

my young son Rory.

Learning quotes that make me think

I read a lot around learning issues, and these are a few quotes that I use as prompts to generate thinking and I always hope, application of new ideas.

Article: Resolve to Learn

A short one pager for People Management - published January 2001.

Workshop Outline: Learning from work

Practical approaches to lifelong learning and CPD.

Learning bibliography

This bibliography will be supplemented soon with dozens of other articles.

Leslie Rae's seven levels of interest in our own development

An excellent and challenging way to approach learning motivation.

Four Problems with development

Here is a short article I have had published in a lot of sources, that focuses on just four reasons why so much of the investment in people in the work-place is a waste...so work on these four!