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The Learnability Man
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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...

Ian Gibbs
Oct 25, 20224 min read
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Adding to Your Micro-skill Toolbox
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....

Ian Gibbs
Oct 13, 20221 min read
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An Alternative To Knowledge vs Skills?
What do you see in the photo? • A standard LEGO brick? • 2.5 grams of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene? • A painful experience for bare...

Ian Gibbs
Apr 7, 20222 min read
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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...

Ian Gibbs
Apr 3, 20223 min read
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7 Ways To Ruin A Learning Club
It was Denis Waitley who said “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour,...

Ian Gibbs
Mar 23, 20223 min read
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3 Examples of Learning Clubs
If you’re not familiar with Learning Clubs, the concept can seem a bit nebulous. In an attempt to rectify this, here are 3 examples that...

Ian Gibbs
Mar 22, 20225 min read
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8 Tips For Starting A Learning Club
I wouldn’t say that all companies should have a learning club. But I would say that everyone should be a member of one. A learning club...

Ian Gibbs
Mar 21, 20222 min read
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7 Benefits of Learning Clubs
You know there are things you could do better. But there never seems to be the opportunity, the motivation or the pressure to do...

Ian Gibbs
Mar 18, 20223 min read
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Why Organisational Learning Doesn’t Work For Everyone
Organisational Learning is the process of creating, retaining, and transferring knowledge within an organisation so that the organisation...

Ian Gibbs
Mar 17, 20222 min read
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3 Ways To Improve Attitudes to Training
I have 9 year-old twins. They are definitely not identical. One is introvert, the other extrovert. One likes chocolate and broccoli, the...

Ian Gibbs
Mar 15, 20223 min read
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3 Ways to Avoid The Emperor’s Training Day
We learn by doing something new... and then practising it, often. There’s a lot more detail that can be added, but essentially if we want...

Ian Gibbs
Mar 14, 20222 min read
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Why You Need A Personal Learning Strategy (Part 2 of 4)
(This blog is a continuation of Part 1) In Part 2, we look at the first half of what makes up a PLS. There are four parts to a Personal...

Ian Gibbs
Mar 9, 20223 min read
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Why You Need A Personal Learning Strategy (Part 1 of 4)
At the end of last year, I decided to launch my own podcast: The Learnability Show. The only problem was I had no idea how to do it. I...

Ian Gibbs
Mar 8, 20222 min read
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Why Learning is counterintuitive
If you give a class of students (let’s call them Class A) a chapter to study for three days in a row, by the end of Day 3, their attitude...

Ian Gibbs
Mar 2, 20222 min read
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