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Martin Couzins

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Martin is an experienced business-to-business journalist who has spent many years covering the HR and L&D sectors. As well as writing and curating content on these topics, he runs Massive Open Online Courses through MOOC Pro as well as a digital content and communications agency Itsdevelopmental.

    • Blended learning
    • e-learning
    • Learning & development

    Learning Technologies 2016: Five ways to improve L&D

    by Martin Couzins 10 Feb 2016
    by Martin Couzins 10 Feb 2016

    “If you could start a new L&D function from scratch, with all the tools available to you now, what would...

    • HR strategy

    CIPD 2015: Eleven things you missed in Manchester

    by Martin Couzins 11 Nov 2015
    by Martin Couzins 11 Nov 2015

    Thousands of HR professionals travelled to the CIPD’s Annual Conference and Exhibition last week. The event focused on future HR...

    • Military
    • Coaching and mentoring
    • Learning & development

    World of Learning: time to focus on learners’ needs

    by Martin Couzins 6 Oct 2015
    by Martin Couzins 6 Oct 2015

    Last week’s World of Learning Conference focused strongly on the ways organisations can facilitate it, and how to pass control...

    • e-learning
    • Learning & development

    CIPD Learning and Development Show: L&D must be more agile

    by Martin Couzins 28 May 2015
    by Martin Couzins 28 May 2015

    Facing a volatile, fast-changing environment means learning and development (L&D) professionals need to limber up and be able to offer...

    • Blended learning
    • Career development
    • e-learning

    Learning Technologies 2015: L&D has to “undo educational damage”

    by Martin Couzins 20 Feb 2015
    by Martin Couzins 20 Feb 2015

    The technology of today has completely transformed how employees access information and how they use it. But the technology of...

    • Business performance
    • CIPD
    • Early careers

    CIPD Manchester 2014: changing perspectives

    by Martin Couzins 10 Nov 2014
    by Martin Couzins 10 Nov 2014

    Key lessons for employers to take away from last week's CIPD annual conference in Manchester highlighted by Martin Couzins...

    • e-learning
    • Learning & development

    World of Learning 2014: innovation is what you need

    by Martin Couzins 9 Oct 2014
    by Martin Couzins 9 Oct 2014

    Martin Couzins reports on last week’s World of Learning 2014 conference in Birmingham, where innovation and future trends in learning...

    • Learning & development
    • Onboarding

    Opening up to MOOCs: opportunities for L&D

    by Martin Couzins 2 May 2014
    by Martin Couzins 2 May 2014

    Learning and development (L&D) is awash with acronyms and now there’s a new one on the block, the MOOC –...

    • Apprenticeships
    • HR software
    • e-learning

    Learning Technologies 2014: Eight key trends for learning and development

    by Martin Couzins 10 Feb 2014
    by Martin Couzins 10 Feb 2014

    Anyone attending last week’s Learning Technologies exhibition will have been encouraged by the buzz surrounding the event. Martin Couzins returns...

    • Change management
    • CIPD
    • Employee engagement

    CIPD 2013 highlights: Unilever, Facebook and HMRC

    by Martin Couzins 11 Nov 2013
    by Martin Couzins 11 Nov 2013

    HR professionals from Facebook, Unilever, HM Revenue & Customs and Cafcass all had something to say at the 2013 CIPD conference - Martin Couzins reports

    • CIPD

    CIPD 2013: HR at an inflection point, says Peter Cheese

    by Martin Couzins 6 Nov 2013
    by Martin Couzins 6 Nov 2013

    HR needs a new way of thinking to shape the business agenda of the future, according to Chartered Institute of...

    • HR strategy
    • e-learning
    • Learning & development

    Lessons in L&D: World of Learning 2013

    by Martin Couzins 8 Oct 2013
    by Martin Couzins 8 Oct 2013

    Should you use your own staff or third parties to train employees? Does learning and development (L&D) work better outside...

    • Economics, government & business
    • Public sector
    • HR strategy

    Workforce strategy key for public-sector HR

    by Martin Couzins 25 Apr 2013
    by Martin Couzins 25 Apr 2013

    The way local government manages its services continues to be challenged by austerity, but public-sector HR professionals are perfectly placed...

    • HR software
    • Latest News
    • Learning & development

    HR Tech Europe: Big data will enable HR to make better decisions

    by Martin Couzins 4 Apr 2013
    by Martin Couzins 4 Apr 2013

    As HR software systems improve, so does HR’s ability to use data more effectively. Martin Couzins reports from HR Tech’s...

    • Learning & development

    What’s working in L&D: quick-fire links

    by Martin Couzins 8 May 2012
    by Martin Couzins 8 May 2012

    In recent weeks, two of the biggest professional bodies for learning and development (L&D) specialists have released their annual surveys...

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