Ian Gibbs
Optimising Your Learning: Three Essential Concepts to Bear In Mind
Whether you're studying for exams, learning new skills for your career, or simply broadening your knowledge, learning is an essential...
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Ian Gibbs
The Learnability Man
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Ian Gibbs
- Mar 8
- 3 min
The Biggest Mistakes Networkers Make & How to Avoid Them
I recently interviewed David Rigby, managing director of Smart Coaching and Training who reminded me of the important part networking...
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Ian Gibbs
- Feb 26
- 3 min
5 Key Strategies (and Questions) to Enhance Your Career
Whether it’s more responsibility, more money or just a better office, professional development is essential for anyone who wants to...
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Ian Gibbs
- Feb 24
- 3 min
Why Your Brain Goes Fuzzy
You might not be familiar with Cognitive Load Theory but you’re very familiar with its practical effects. Cognitive Load Theory (CLT)...
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Ian Gibbs
- Feb 22
- 2 min
Is Confirmation Bias Stopping You Getting Promoted?
How often do you use cognitive biases and how much are they limiting you? Cognitive biases are like shortcuts our brain takes when we're...
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Ian Gibbs
- Feb 21
- 2 min
Key Learning Techniques #5: Social Learning
One of the 4 cornerstones of Learning Clubs is Social Learning - the way we acquire new behaviours, attitudes, and values by 'using' the...
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Ian Gibbs
- Feb 19
- 2 min
Key Learning Techniques #4: Action Learning
I'm not the only person who believes there is room for improving regarding the way we learn. In the 1940s, ex-Olympic athlete and...
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Ian Gibbs
- Feb 8
- 1 min
Feedback
We can learn a lot from feedback. It can help us adjust and advance quickly to get to where we want to be. But most people (including...
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Ian Gibbs
- Dec 18, 2022
- 2 min
Keeping Your New Ideas Out Of The Box
Whenever we go on holiday to the seaside, my kids will usually come across interesting shells on the beach which are picked up and...
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Ian Gibbs
- Nov 20, 2022
- 2 min
My son did it and I’m proud of him.
I finally succumbed to my children’s pleadings and gave them a phone each, but, much to their disapproval, with parental control. This...
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Ian Gibbs
- Nov 3, 2022
- 2 min
The Obvious and Not-so-Obvious Responsibilities of Being a Learning Club Member
When you attend a company training day, what are your responsibilities? Turn up? Pay attention? Take notes? Try to glean something...
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Ian Gibbs
- Nov 1, 2022
- 3 min
7 reasons why Learning Clubs work
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...
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Ian Gibbs
- Oct 25, 2022
- 4 min
A Surprisingly Difficult Question
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...
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Ian Gibbs
- Apr 16, 2022
- 3 min
Student Tip 2: Don’t Do What You’re Told
Washing machines are great, aren’t they? You choose the temperature, duration and spin-speed and, all being well, that’s what your...
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Ian Gibbs
- Apr 16, 2022
- 3 min
Student Tip 1: Own It
I used to have a classmate who could have won the Olympics at inventing excuses. Every single problem he had was somebody else’s fault....
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Ian Gibbs
- Apr 3, 2022
- 3 min
Which Of These 5 Lifelong Learners Are You?
Lifelong Learning is in fashion. And why not? There’s something deeply satisfying about looking back and seeing how much you’ve...
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Ian Gibbs
- Mar 29, 2022
- 2 min
Key Learning Techniques #3: Dual Coding
How good are you at drawing? Does your attempt at a horse look like… well, a horse? Or does it look more like a pig having a bad day?...
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Ian Gibbs
- Mar 28, 2022
- 3 min
Key Learning Techniques #2: The Feynman Technique
In the mid-twentieth century, Richard Feynman was one of those rare theoretical physicists who was not only very knowledgeable of his...
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Ian Gibbs
- Mar 25, 2022
- 2 min
Key Learning Techniques #1: The Ebbinghaus Method
Until someone invents a way to download knowledge directly into our brains Matrix-style (I know Kung Fu) I’m relieved to say that the...
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Ian Gibbs
- Mar 24, 2022
- 3 min
5 Ways to Start Strengthening Your Understanding of New Ideas
We all know that practice makes perfect. But when practice isn’t an option, a good alternative is to vocalise. Whether you’re interested...
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