Giving everyone a chance to succeed

We all know that social change happens when people have the resources to succeed, and that’s what’s driving our member organizations to deliver learning to their staff. The LINGOs Learning Platform (LLP) makes it simple for any organization to manage their staff’s learning. However, most organizations depend on the help of people who may not be working for the organization, but in some way, help the organization to achieve their mission. The LLP can be used to reach those learners.

Recently, I had a chance to hear from LINGOs members who have been offering courses to an external audience including partners, fellows, interns and others. Their testimonies are truly inspiring and get to heart of what LINGOs is all about – delivering the right training to the right people at the right time.

Five ways to embed Learning in your organization

 

The year is now in full swing and I’m really excited about the learning innovations that LINGOs has in store, but then I’m a Learning and Development professional – and perhaps you are too! What we really need is for people across our organizations to get excited about using learning to make a bigger impact.

In this blog I’ll be sharing five ways to make learning relevant to your whole organization. With increasing pressures on funding and a greater scrutiny on performance, many support functions are coming under the microscope. Information systems, finance, legal, HR and Learning all need to deliver clear and sustainable value or they will be given a mandate to change, be eliminated or be outsourced.

PM4NGOs and APMG announce the recipient of the 2016 Alan Harpham Award

This is a guest post by PM4NGOs

The Alan Harpham Award honors and recognizes an individual with distinguished actions in promoting the professionalization of project management in the international development and humanitarian sectors. The selected winner demonstrates not only leadership in advocating for project management professionalization within the sector but also in making it available to those who are most in need and to a range of stakeholders in the sector such as community-based organizations or local NGOs. The award is named in honor of Alan Harpham, former Board Member of PM4NGOs and Chairman of APMG, and a global citizen dedicated to making this sector and community a better place.

Three things I have learned in the last three years of “rolling-out” the Introduction to Child Centered Community Development (CCCD) Module

This post was originally published on Plan Academy and written by Pedrito Sandy M. Fortuna, Regional CCCD Specialist, Plan International in Asia Region.

I have been facilitating and co-facilitating, both online and blended face-to-face, one of the Plan Academy’s flagship modules on Introduction to Child Centered Community Development. Although the list of things I have learned over the past three years can go on and on, there are three important lessons that stand out when looking at Plan’s development approach.

PMD Pro Flex – The Reality

A guest post by John Cropper, Director of Capacity Building Solutions at LINGOs.

In September, we launched our first pilot of PMD Pro Flex – a self-paced, facilitated, moderated, virtual and social way to learn PMD Pro. What’s happened since then?

Designing eLearning Courses with Localization in Mind

A guest post by Ingenuiti, a LINGOs partner.

Do you design or create training content or eLearning courses for an organization that operates globally? If you think your content will reach a global audience, you should consider integrating localization as part of your development process. Training has its greatest impact when it is provided in the learner’s native language. If you are a writer or instructional designer and have never considered localization in the planning and creation phase of content development, while it might seem daunting at first, this once dreaded task can be simplified with proper preparation and strategy.

Driving learner engagement by making L&D a core priority

As we step into the end of the year, most of us will begin reflecting on the hard work we’ve been putting into driving learning and development in our organizations over the last ten months. Not only does this set the tone of our strategy for next year, but it also forces us to ask ourselves some important questions. How do we get more staff enrolled in courses on our LMS? How can we improve the online learning experience? What kind of new courses can we offer to motivate them to want to continue their learning journey?

Together with Humanitarian Leadership Academy, we’re bringing professional Project Management to all Humanitarians

This post was originally published on Humanitarian Leadership Academy’s blog.

The PMDPro Starter Toolkit is a mobile responsive website that has been created by LINGOs, working together with Plan International, PM4NGOs and the Humanitarian Leadership Academy. It aims to extend access to the tools and techniques of professional project management to small national and local NGOs.

A new way to learn PMD Pro

A guest post by John Cropper, Director of Capacity Building Solutions

How do you help people doing good to do it better? This has always been one of the main challenges with training NGOs in project management. Most NGO staff working on projects work long days and often long nights. They spend a lot of time in communities, on the road and in difficult and often hard to access locations. In addition, they often have to respond to multiple and often unpredictable demands ranging from humanitarian crises to unplanned visits from HQ or donors. It is like juggling but with an ever varying number of balls in the air at the same time.

Five trends transforming the employee experience at INGOs

Trendy and arguably even “shiny object” HR policies in the private sector, especially tech firms, grab a lot of headlines. So, when I read this blog post about how “HR Mavericks” were abolishing HR departments and replacing them with an Employee Experience department, I wanted to know what some of the INGOs’ more innovative HR leaders thought about the concept. Rest assured there is a lot going on to transform HR in our sector, with a focus on making sure that the right people are in place at the right time and aligned with the mission and values to be effective from day one.