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Welcome to the Learning Pool Blog - feel free to subscribe for free updates by RSS or email. Thanks for visiting.The National Association of Local Councils (NALC) is, in partnership with its national stakeholders, updating the existing training strategy for local (parish and town) councils and wants your views!
The survey forms a pivotal element of the National Training Strategy (NTS) [...]
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The C’llr. 10 Conference is the first ever major national conference specifically for councillors and Learning Pool will be there!
Organised by the Local Government Information Unit, producers of Cllr Magazine, in conjunction with Ingenium Strategic Events, Cllr 10 will be held at The Emirates Stadium, London N5 on 4th February 2010.
Learning Pool are among the [...]
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Things can get a little hectic working on the administration for Learning Pool. So I’ve been on the lookout for some simple apps to help me manage my time and become more productive.
Here are a few of the best I’ve come across so far and they’re all free!
1. Google Calendar - Everybody needs a good diary [...]
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On Monday 25th January, Paul McElvaney, Director of Learning Pool and Alison Stott, Project Manager at Essex Strategic HR will be hosting an online hotseat on the commissioning of Open, Distance and E-learning.
This will be taking place in the Leadership Development Community of Practice, using the IDeA’s CoP platform. You need to register with the [...]
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I hope you all had a lovely Christmas break.
Isn’t it nice to meet up with your family during the festive break, share stories and talk about traditions, some of which you inherit and some that you create for yourselves as your life moves on?
After Christmas dinner in our house this year we were talking and I began to [...]
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With the 2010 conference season just around the corner and job stability uncertain for some now could be a great time for brushing up your networking skills.
If you’re the shy and retiring type like some of the team at Learning Pool (ahem) take a look at these top five killer networking questions below and then [...]
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With interest in Dave Briggs‘ free Twitter: A Quick Start Guide for Those In and Around Government reaching all four corners of the world, we thought we’d ask those who downloaded it what they thought.
Freshness, quality and layout of the content of the Twitter Guide were all big hits with the downloaders. So much so, that over 90% would recommend [...]
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