Mike Nicol Email & Phone Number

After two years freelancing as an Instructional Designer with Strategy to Revenue they have offered me a 'permanent' position with them that reflects our mutual trust and responsibility. My life seems to have a lot of chapters lately!

Remote

Strategy to Revenue Ltd provides strategic consultation and sales execution programs, enabling businesses to accelerate sales and channel performance, onboarding productivity, and marketing impact. Phew!They’re also a really nice bunch of people. You should look them up :)

Global

Still developing innovative learning for Xerox globally whilst waiting for my role to be ‘transitioned’ offshore to Bangalore in January 2021.

Global

As per the previous developer role only now serving a global audience. Working within the Managed Document Services team my projects now reach a worldwide audience. The role has also opened up many opportunities to work with other global teams and technologies.

Europe

Developing learning interventions for deployment across Xerox Europe from initial concept, through design and story boarding, to finished formal, virtual, or experiential learning event. We are trying to reinforce the 70:20:10 learning model within Xerox and change preconceptions about training, producing bite-sized learning that is available at the point of need and in a variety of formats.This can be challenging, and sometimes frustrating, but ultimately very rewarding. The use of interactive video is particularly exciting and a field I am keen to explore more fully.There are additional challenges around making the learning truly multi-purpose, whereby a Trainer can deliver the content in the traditional classroom way, but that same content can be used in a virtual class or as self paced learning on an individual's iPad (other tablets are available). Being innovative can mean some deliverables are less than perfect, but the way people consume information is constantly changing and it is critical that training changes too. An old Chinese curse says "May you live in interesting times" ... well, curse or not, these are certainly interesting times in Learning and Talent Development!

Wokefield Park, Berkshire

Running face-to-face training events for Xerox Pre and Post Sales Analysts on print engines, Digital Front Ends (RIPs), and software solutions, with a specialisation in Colour Theory and Colour Management. Also part of the 'Learning 2.0 Champions' who spearheaded the new Virtual Classroom way of delivering training. Although at the time this felt hugely novel and innovative the new ways we get learning out there makes it clear that VCs were just the start of a seismic shift in the way we deliver learning within xerox.

Woking And Manchester

Providing technical and colour management expertise to the Sales teams on our print devices, controllers, and software solutions.

London, United Kingdom

An assortment of IT roles from Junior Operator through to Technical Support Consultant via Programmer and EDI Manager. This was for a variety of companies in London and the South East including an extended period as a Contract Technical Programmer. Unless there are still companies out there running ICL VME Mainframes with punched card input and reel-to-reel data storage this era is probably irrelevant, however I do like to be thorough in my work profile. Would you like to hear about my previous jobs as a paper boy, sprout picker, or potato chipper?

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