Paul Matthews
Paul Matthews

Member Since: 26th Jul 2011
Long before Paul became sought after as an expert in the area of informal learning and workplace performance support, he grew up on a farm in New Zealand. His practical approach typifies the well-known Kiwi can-do attitude and focus on solutions that actually work. Leaving the farm behind, he travelled the world and gained valuable experience working in many industries and in many countries.
After working in a number of corporate organisations and setting up People Alchemy in 1999, Paul decided to distil some of his knowledge into his first book. In 2013, he wrote Informal Learning at Work: How to Boost Performance in Tough Times. The aim of the book is to help learning and development professionals manage the critical shift in the way organisations need to cater for the learning needs of their employees.
Following the success of the first book, in 2014 he penned Capability at Work: How to Solve the Performance Puzzle which explores the root causes of peoples’ poor performance and how to seize the opportunity of the changing nature of L&D.
Managing Director People Alchemy Ltd
29th Nov 2019
Informal learning: critically important, but neglected
Informal learning is a big thing now in learning and development. The 70:20:10 model, and others, tells us that informal learning is vastly...
Training
4th Jul 2019
Learning transfer: why L&D cannot beat the system and effect change through training alone
An unhelpful myth that high-performing organisations are simply made up of talented individuals is preventing L&D from better...
Talent
17th Oct 2018
Learning transfer: the difficulty with creating new habits
Why is it so hard to form good habits and behaviours? L&D expert Paul Matthews provides some insight in the excerpt below from his...
Talent
4th Jun 2014
Tasking for learning
Setting tasks in the learning process is fundamental to any coaching or mentoring process, says Paul Matthews. I have seen people get into...
Coaching
7th Apr 2014
Practical questions you can use for ROI thinking
Paul Matthews takes a practical approach to this month's theme. Perhaps it is because people don’t know any other way. Perhaps it is...
Coaching
8th May 2013
Do we have a leadership issue?
Paul Matthews thinks the solution might be right in front of us. The question was not unusual. In fact I have heard it many times before in...
Culture
18th Mar 2013
Compelling evidence for informal learning
Paul Matthews tells the community why informal learning is so important. The other day I was chatting with a senior learning and...
Strategy
16th Jan 2013
The future of training is not training
It's not about training, it's about capability management, says Paul Matthews. It’s that time of year when people think about what the...
Strategy
21st Nov 2012
Why are soft skills important?
How are you feeling today? Paul Matthews explores the link between emotion and soft skills. We start learning soft skills from almost the...
Talent
31st Oct 2012
Learning is the key to successful OD
Think you know the secret to effective OD? Paul Matthews has one simple philosophy to get you on the right track. What is Organisational...
Strategy