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Nic Laycock
Managing Director, Amos Laycock Consulting
With over 35 years experience in learning as practitioner, manager, and consultant, Nic Laycock is passionate about applying technology to learning. Nic believes social learning is the key to Smart Working in business improvement. Convinced about how social media empowers learning, he is an active Tweeter, writer, and blogger about aspects of online communities in the workplace. Now living and working back in the U.K., Nic spent the 17 years prior to 2009 in South Africa and he has worked in many industries and on five continents. Nic is a former winner of the U.K. National Training Award.
Latest from Nic Laycock
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EMEA Reporter: Disruptive Forces Challenge Organizational Training Models
When a military man talks about disruption in any context it is a good idea to listen! Meet Garry Hearn, until recently the man in charge of designing and organizing learning strategy for British military units covering 44,000 service personnel.
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EMEA Reporter: On the INHOPE Network, eLearning Helps in Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse
The Internet has its good side, but unfortunately it also has its evil side: the victimization of children. Fortunately, there is an international network of hotlines, set up in cooperation with law enforcement agencies, to rapidly identify and remove child-abuse material from the Internet. eLearning plays an important part in this effort. In this article you’ll meet one of the key players.
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EMEA Reporter: What’s Changing in Learning? For Most of Us, Not Much!
There is firm evidence from the last three years that learning innovation, done well, is delivering real returns. L&D leaders around the world who have become more business savvy and have embraced alignment have reaped huge dividends for their work. Find out what the research says about the factors that make the difference!
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EMEA Reporter: Are Learning and HR Partners? Or Eternal Enemies?
As a learning professional, how do you view HR? David Wilson has spent 18 years watching how the relationship works and has come to some thought-provoking conclusions. Learn about how David is bridging the gap between the US and EMEA when it comes to research about learning, talent management, and HR.
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EMEA Reporter: eSafety, a Responsibility for the eLearning Community
Although IT departments have for years served as watchdogs over organizational cybersecurity, eLearning has often been relatively unconcerned with online safety and security, apart from passwords. However, in Europe this is changing, and it is also time for the rest of the world to take action. Here are some thoughts on this important area.
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EMEA Reporter: Julian Stodd on the Rise of Social Authority
In the new ecosystems of the Social Age, many, if not most, of the paradigms that used to shape and regulate the workplace have become redundant. Read about Julian Stodd’s view of the new, fluid, unexpected environment!
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EMEA Reporter: Nokia’s Rebirth Accelerated by eLearning
Over the last two years, Nokia Networks (formerly Nokia Solutions and Networks) has changed ownership, changed its name (twice), and struggled with turnaround as they dealt with serious changes in their competitive situation. And they are succeeding, in part thanks to imaginative use of eLearning that supported company leadership in leading change. Read about it here!
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EMEA Reporter: Transforming Disaster Response Through eLearning
DisasterReady.org is a newcomer to the global aid effort, born out of the need to rapidly train aid workers being deployed to the Pakistan floods of 2010. Today, over 40,000 aid workers from 190 countries have accessed the DisasterReady.org learning portal to enhance their preparedness for whatever assignment comes next. Meet the Director of this amazing three-person organization.
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EMEA Reporter: It’s Really All About Communication
A recent international survey of learning and business professionals reveals that 90 percent consider foreign language skills of high importance for global business success. Yet 41 percent of those responding believe that lack of foreign language skills—particularly in English—is hampering communication across borders in their organizations. Here is what one German company is doing about that.
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EMEA Reporter: Mobile in Action—a High-end Case Study
Germany’s KWS has taken a new leap into the future, aiming to bring mobile delivery of highly complex power plant operator training into the workplace and beyond—into 24/7 access for employees. Here’s the story, and an interview with the developer behind it all.