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		<title>The best learning experience I ever had - John Costello</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Costello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Trainers Kit Bag: Our next guest post comes from John Costello. John is CTO of careergro, the social development planning tool for employees and you can follow him on Twitter here. John&#8217;s learning experience has a sporting context but more arm power and less horse power&#8230; I recently had a learning experience in which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careergro.com&#038;blog=31399884&#038;post=740&#038;subd=careergro&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Career development from the bottom up &#8211; Talk to Organisational Psychologists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 12:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Costello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the Division of Work &#38; Organisational Psychology (DWOP) of The Irish Psychological Society invited me to talk on the topic of career development. It was one of the first really fine evenings of the summer and I was a bit concerned about whether or not we would get an audience.  It turned out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careergro.com&#038;blog=31399884&#038;post=667&#038;subd=careergro&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The social enterprise, more equal or more successful?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Costello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I attended the connectingHR unconference on the theme of ‘The Power of a Socially Engaged Organisation’.  Many things were discussed (See here, here, here, here, here and here.), but the question that I want to focus on is: what is the case for social media tools in the enterprise? Democratic work place Miranda Ash [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careergro.com&#038;blog=31399884&#038;post=625&#038;subd=careergro&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The new psychological contract</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Sorohan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the CIPD, the traditional employee psychological contract is generally described as an offer of commitment by the employee in return for job security provided by the employer  &#8211; or in some cases the legendary &#8216;job for life&#8217;.  An employee joined an organisation and stayed for many years, working his or her way up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careergro.com&#038;blog=31399884&#038;post=617&#038;subd=careergro&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can social engagement reduce the risk of losing face and boost performance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 13:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Costello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been reluctant to seek assistance from someone inside your organisation, perhaps afraid of losing face because you need help? High performers communicate with their colleagues In a series of experiments, MIT Professor Tom Allen1 found that people are more likely to look outside their own organisation for ideas, while at the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careergro.com&#038;blog=31399884&#038;post=590&#038;subd=careergro&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning in the woods</title>
		<link>http://blog.careergro.com/2012/04/30/learning-in-the-woods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Costello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I attended the L&#38;D Connect Unconference and met lots of people interested in a conversation about learning and development (L&#38;D). Please have a look at this video by Martin Couzins and this storify by Ian Pettigrew from the event. One of the people I met was Flora Marriott who wrote this post on what she&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careergro.com&#038;blog=31399884&#038;post=568&#038;subd=careergro&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Personal experience of becoming a learning organisation</title>
		<link>http://blog.careergro.com/2012/04/19/personal-experience-of-becoming-a-learning-organisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Sorohan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the case studies to be presented at the forthcoming CIPD HRD 2012 conference and exhibition on Learning and Organisational Development (April 25 &#38; 26, London) is titled: ‘Becoming a Learning Organisation’. The study is a joint presentation by Andy Holmes of Ernst &#38; Young and Andy Doyle of ITV, see: http://www.cipd.co.uk/cande/hrd/conference/_SeminarDetails.htm?guid={77E19A2D-8172-41B9-8EDD-57CC8B94848C} Their presentation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careergro.com&#038;blog=31399884&#038;post=538&#038;subd=careergro&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Current best practices in employee development and innovations to look forward to</title>
		<link>http://blog.careergro.com/2012/04/12/current-best-practices-in-employee-development-and-some-promised-innovations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Cunningham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the case studies to be presented at the forthcoming CIPD HRD 2012 conference and exhibition on Learning and Organisational Development (April 25 &#38; 26, London) is titled: &#8216;Creating a leading organisation through innovative people development&#8217;. The study is a joint presentation by British Airways and the London Organising Committee of the Olypmic and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careergro.com&#038;blog=31399884&#038;post=531&#038;subd=careergro&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Performance Management v Career Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Sorohan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I listened in to a HR seminar given by Mike McDermott from HumanR yesterday and it answered a very fundamental question for me: what should drive learning and development in a knowledge sector organisation, performance management or career development? Mike described how performance management up until the turn of the century was based on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careergro.com&#038;blog=31399884&#038;post=519&#038;subd=careergro&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Harford&#8217;s &#8216;Adapt &#8211; Why Success Always Starts With Failure&#8217; &#8211; How are businesses putting it into practice?</title>
		<link>http://blog.careergro.com/2012/04/03/adapt-why-success-always-starts-with-failure-what-does-it-mean-for-your-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Cunningham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading Tim Harford&#8217;s latest book: &#8216;Adapt &#8211; Why Success Always Starts With Failure&#8217;. Harford is a smart man, as befits a leader writer for the Financial Times and a successful author of popular economics books. He has a particular gift for putting us in our comfort zone by first describing situations we are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.careergro.com&#038;blog=31399884&#038;post=491&#038;subd=careergro&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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