Ian Gibbs
The Learnability Man

I finally succumbed to my children’s pleadings and gave them a phone each, but, much to their disapproval, with parental control. This...

When you attend a company training day, what are your responsibilities? Turn up? Pay attention? Take notes? Try to glean something...

One of the ways I help my clients is by helping them set up their own Learning Clubs. A Learning Club is a small group of people who...

What would be the best investment of your time to get better at what you do? What would give your performance the best ROI? The biggest...

One of the most annoying questions you get asked when you get home from school is “What did you do today?” Answering this question...

As well as personal learning strategies, I also help people with their public speaking. It’s a useful skill. Giving a presentation to a...

There’s a guy on YouTube called Mike Boyd. Look him up. He’s great. He learns stuff. Not German or Geography but fun stuff like...

What micro-skill have you recently added to your toolbox? By ‘micro-skill’, I mean a small action that forms part of a larger skill set....

Why is it so easy to spend a few hours playing Call of Duty, Minecraft or Fortnite and yet so difficult to grind out thirty minutes of...

You’ve just seen in the previous tip that if you explain something to someone else, it helps you understand it better. You could even go...

A teacher once did an experiment with two groups of students. She gave the same homework to both groups but with one important...

Remember those children’s story books you had read to you when you were little? You know, the ones with all the pictures. Have you ever...

There’s a man called David Allen. Lots of people think he’s a productivity guru—a man who knows how to get things done. But when asked...

Maybe you already know this game, but an entertaining way to pass the time on a long journey is to play ‘Things you can do with...’. It...

You probably already know what flashcards are: small rectangular cards with the stuff you want to learn written on the back and some sort...

I’m sure you’re already very familiar with prizes and punishments at school—especially the punishments. But the reason why your teachers...

We are all creatures of habit, and this includes you, too. By this I mean that you tend to do the same thing in the same way every time...

When you were at primary, your time was very much decided by your teachers at school and your parents at home. But as you start thinking...

In Tip 9 we looked at not worrying about making mistakes. In Tip 10 we looked at learning from the mistakes we do make. But in this Bonus...

Having said in the previous blog that making mistakes is good, I think we both know that if you keep making a pig’s ear out of your...