Five tips for building connection in digital learning
It’s Learning at Work Week and this year’stheme Get Connected reminds us just how essential social...
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Five Years On: Learning to Respond to Domestic Abuse in a Post-COVID World
At the height of the pandemic, Desq began working with Somerset Council to develop training on how...
Story Board - March 2025
Welcome to the latest edition of Story Board - the all things L&D newsletter from Desq. This...
Creating the right conditions for compliance training
All the compliance training in the world can’t compensate for a corporate culture that doesn’t...
Making the best of blended
The Office for National Statistics has just published data stating 26% of UK workers are blending...
Is it even possible to learn diversity, equity and inclusion?
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is a familiar feature of workplace training, often promising...
Good workplace DEI is hard. How can L&D help?
We might still be committed to the idea of diversity, equity and inclusion, but we’re finally...
Making learning at work pay
But a few years back, when we thought about how we (Desq) learn at work, we decided it was time to...
Digital learning still has a ‘click’ problem. How can we get over it?
Perhaps it’s a hangover from the early days of e-learning that clicking to reveal content is still...
5 questions L&D teams should be asking their digital learning designers
Commissioning learning design can be tricky – there’s an ever-changing world of technical...
Successful onboarding is a branded experience
I’m new to digital learning. I’ve spent 20 years in brand strategy, design and language, digging...
How gemba shines a light on our clients’ worlds … And enables learner-centred design
The Japanese practice of ‘gemba’ was popularised by Toyota. There, managers would walk the shop...
Is scrolling a vibe killer?
It’s second nature to scroll. Whether we’re browsing social or skim-reading news articles,...