At Go1 we're passionate about bringing the learning community together so that we can, collectively, address workplace learning challenges and share transformative learning experiences to help each other grow. Our meetups are for learning and development professionals who want to discuss best practices, strategies, and innovation in learning design, delivery and instructional technology.

We're very excited to announce our first meetups of 2019!

Please RSVP to reserve your free ticket here:

We will be bringing to you, Australia's best in learning and technology to speak about why HR & L&D managers should learn leadership skills in order to influence, impact and engage staff learning - how you can create a culture of learning.

We'll be holding the meetups in Brisbane on the 21th of February, Melbourne on the 26th of February, and Sydney on the 28th of February. All of them will run between 6pm and 8:00pm. 

Watch this space to find out who our presenters will be!

Our speakers will be holding an interactive conversation that will allow you to be involved in the conversation and walk away from this meetup with some solutions that you can start applying in your workplace straight away!

We're looking forward to seeing you all there!

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Learning and Technology Meetup: Taking the Lead in Learning at Work

We're very excited to announce our first Melbourne Learning and Technology Meetup and our second Brisbane Meetup!

To end the year on a high we're bringing you Australia's best in learning and technology to speak about Content Curation vs Content Creation and which is the better option. We'll be holding the meetup in Melbourne on the 5 December and again in Brisbane on the 11 December. Both meetings will run between 6pm and 8:30pm, and we will have food and drinks for all attendees.

How social and workforce trends influence whether trainers choose to create vs curate training

Simple ways curation can be used to enhance training

What the future of content curation will look like (AI/ machine learning)

Scott Cooper, VP of Marketing at Go1 and author of A Guide to Better eLearning
and
Jason Wong, Learning and Development Consultant at Pentana Solutions

Scott Cooper is VP of Marketing at Go1.com, an online training platform for businesses to train staff, the author of A Guide to Better eLearning and founder of learning newsletter OnlineLearningWeekly.com. The Brisbane start-up, Go1.com, has offices in the US, South Africa, Vietnam, the UK and Malaysia.

As a Learning and Development Business Partner for Pentana Solutions, Jason Wong has extensive experience working for larger organisations, in a regulated industry. He believes that the correct approach to designing any induction or introductory learning solution should begin with the learner’s need at front-of-mind and believes a Learning Management System is a necessity, not an option, assisting in the facilitation of learning and compliance to achieve the right outcomes.

Vu Tran, Co founder and CGO of Go1
and
Heidi Mayhew-Sanders, Director, Human Resources at Bentleys (QLD) Pty Ltd 

Vu Tran is the co-founder and head of growth at Go1.com, the world’s largest onboarding, compliance and professional development platform. Vu has a passion for improving the world through helping companies grow talent and provide better staff training using the best technology.

With over 20 years’ experience in Human Resources both in Australia and internationally, predominantly in the Financial and Professional Services space, Heidi has led the HR division at Bentleys QLD to successfully deliver tangible results for the firm. Over the past few years, Heidi and the team have focused on building a robust and sustainable learning and development program. Heidi is particularly passionate about promoting a culture of knowledge sharing in the firm, and is constantly looking for innovative ways to capture the firm’s knowledge capital.

For more insights, subscribe to the Go1 newsletter to stay on top of all the latest L&D trends. Or, you can book a demo today to find out how Go1 can help with your team’s learning needs.

Content: Curation vs creation - Which is better? - Go1

Learning and Technology Meetup: Content Curation vs Content Creation - Which is Better?

In collaboration with Blue Ocean Academy™, Go1 is proud to announce that we will be facilitating the first official Blue Ocean Explorer™ Workshop within Australia which is set to be held from January 16 – 18, 2019 in Sydney, Australia.

Learn the underlying blue ocean concepts through a pre-workshop online Blue Ocean 101™ course, at your own convenience, anytime and anywhere.

Learn to apply these blue ocean concepts and methodologies during the three-day workshop, which will be led by world-class blue ocean practitioners, who have more than 15 years of global experience. Follow a step-by-step and collaborative process to create your own blue ocean move through the online creative workspace - Blue Ocean Studio™.

At the end of the workshop, you and your team will have an executable blue print and will have achieved a collective buy-in for this blue ocean move.

You will be awarded a Certificate of Completion for successfully completing your pre-workshop self-directed online Blue Ocean 101™ course, as well as a Certificate of Achievement for successfully creating your first blue ocean move during the three-day workshop.

Upon completing Blue Ocean Explorer™, you will be invited to become a member of our Blue Ocean Community™, a global network of blue ocean practitioners.

The Blue Ocean Explorer™ also includes pre-workshop preparation consisting of a self-paced online course Blue Ocean 101™, which is part of the Blue Ocean Studio™, and which will take you through the underlying concepts and principles behind the blue ocean tools and frameworks.

The Blue Ocean Explorer™ is conducted via onsite and online guidance through the use of the Blue Ocean Studio™ and is facilitated by expert blue ocean practitioners. The workshop will comprise of a maximum of 25 participants divided into groups of 5 on average.

Blue Ocean Studio™ is an online, interactive and collaborative workspace where you will gain practical experience in applying the concepts of Blue Ocean Shift™.  Through a step-by-step guided process, using all the blue ocean tools and frameworks you can create and collaborate with your team, anytime and anywhere. Blue Ocean Studio™ offers you a transformative way to collaborate with your team and win collective buying for implementation as you formulate your blue ocean ideas.

A full record of your project work will be available for download from your interactive Studio and you may also continue to use your Blue Ocean Studio™ after the workshop for as long as your subscription is valid.

The workshop will be led and facilitated by one of the leading global blue ocean practitioners, who on average have 15 years of industry experience.

How much is the participation fee for the Blue Ocean Explorer™?

The workshop participation fee is USD 2,850 per participant which includes a three-month subscription for the Blue Ocean Studio™ and Blue Ocean 101™ course. Details of Blue Ocean Studio™ and Blue Ocean 101™ course are available under their respective product pages.

For corporate packages, please support@go1.com for more information.

How can Blue Ocean Explorer™ meet my company’s specific needs?

If you and your company have specific needs, Blue Ocean Explorer™ can be customized to meet your requirements,and can also be delivered in-house at your preferred designated venue upon request. Email us at support@go1.com find out more.

Chart your market-creating blue ocean move with Blue Ocean Explorer™. This event is by invitation only.

Blue Ocean Shift™ is a roadmap that will move you, your team, and your organization to new heights of confidence, market creation and growth.

Whether you are a cash-strapped start-up or large, established company, non-profit or national government, you can SHIFT from cutthroat markets – red oceans – to wide-open new markets – or blue oceans of uncontested market space – by following a simple five-step process that brings your people along so they own and drive the process.

Blue Ocean Shift is the indispensable and much-anticipated follow up to Blue Ocean Strategy, the classic and global bestseller by world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. Blue Ocean Shift is the New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller.

Exclusive Blue Ocean Explorer™ Workshop in collaboration with Go1 (by invitation only)

The Go1 team is proud to announce that our amazing customers and partners have won six awards at the 2018 LearnX Impact Awards! The prestigious awards highlight the impact of Go1’s eLearning solutions for our customers and partners and proves eLearning can deliver fantastic results for businesses.

LearnX Live Summit & Awards Show was held on Tuesday 30th October at the Melbourne Convention Centre. The awards are an annual event run by the LearnX Foundation; a not-for-profit organisation which recognises the exceptional impact of innovative workforce learning, technology and performance. The event attracts the leading learning and training industry organisations in Australia.

Congratulations to our award-winning customers and partners:

Best Deployment Learning Management Solution:

The Law Society of NSW – Platinum winners

There’s more where this came from - Go1 is excited about the eLearning projects our team are helping to develop for our customers and partners now and in the future!

Go1 customers and partners make an impact at the 2018 LearnX Impact Awards

Fresh from his appearance on SBS TV, Go1's head of growth and co-founder, Vu Tran, will be presenting at the LearnX learning leaders’ summit in Melbourne on Oct 30 from 12:45-1:45pm.

Vu recently featured on SBS (see below) who followed his inspirational journey, from being the son of refugees who fled Vietnam to a doctor in Australia and co-founder of Go1.

GO1 Featured on SBS Small Business Secrets

At LearnX, Vu will be talking about Training: Curation vs Creation

This session will help participants understand:

How social and workforce trends influence whether trainers chose to create vs curate training

LearnX will be held at the Melbourne Convention Centre on Tuesday, 30th October, 2018.

Drop by the Go1 booth to meet the team and learn more about what we are working on.

Go1’s Vu Tran presenting at LearnX in Melbourne

Go1 is excited to announce that we will be at world-leading learning and development conference, DevLearn, in Las Vegas from 24-26 October.

Come and meet the Go1 team where you can:

Learn about accessing 5,000 courses in one subscription through Go1 Premium.

Meet Scott Cooper, our VP of Marketing, and get a signed copy of his book, A Guide to Better e-learning.

Sign up for a Go1 demo and get a showbag.

We’ll be at DevLearn alongside our partners from Totara Learning, a leading open source learning technology software provider, and EdCast, AI-powered knowledge cloud for discovery, management and learning.

Get in touch if you'd like to arrange a meeting at DevLearn.

We’re pleased to announce that Go1 will be at Xerocon 2018. Go1 will be a silver exhibitor at Xerocon, which is running on September 5th and 6th at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre.

Go1 will be at Xerocon to promote our partnership with Xero, and the Go1 referral partner program. If you are a member of the Xero Partner Network and interested in becoming a Go1 referral partner, visit our booth (number 30) next to the Mini Theatre at Xerocon to find out more information.

By joining Go1's Partner Program, Xero Partners can refer their small-to-medium-sized clients to Go1's platform and content library, helping ensure their clients meet their compliance training needs, reducing risk at the workplace. Thanks to a partnership between both organisations, the clients Xero Partners refer to Go1 will be able to receive 5 FREE courses on the go1.com learning platform and access a user integration that syncs user details between Xero and Go1.

If you want to find out more about how easy it is to get started as a referral partner, jump onto www.go1.com/xero or we will see you at Xerocon!

At Go1 we believe in bringing the learning community together so that we can all share our knowledge and help everyone to improve the way that they learn, and train their team. To support this we are very excited to announce our first Brisbane Learning & Technology Meetup this month!

Our first meeting will be taking place on July 18 in the Go1 Fortitude Valley offices between 6pm and 8pm, and we will have food and drinks for all attendees.

We have some great events planned for the future, but we wanted to kick things off by getting some of Brisbane's best learning content creators down to speak about how they go about creating effective learning content.

Jacque Lachmund, CEO of Australia CEO Challenge
and
Schalk Pienaar, CEO of Croomo and Clui

Jacque Lachmund is the CEO of Australia CEO Challenge which provides Workplace Domestic and Family Violence Training. Jacque is extremely passionate about educating and supporting businesses to make workplaces safe environments, where conversations about Domestic and Family Violence can take place, without creating further stigma, shame and fear. Jacque will be speaking about providing training on sensitive topics in the workplace.

As Croomo and Clui’s CEO, Schalk is a strong advocate of innovation and is focused on carving a new path in an exciting landscape that is reshaping business and enterprise training delivery. Schalk will be speaking about best practices for creating a more engaging training experience, and what you can start doing today to improve the way you deliver your learning content.

Both of our speakers will be holding an interactive conversation that will allow you to be involved in the conversation and walk away from this meetup with some solutions that you start applying in your workplace straight away!

Go1 to host first Brisbane Learning and Technology Meetup

This week, Go1 hosted the first WomenHack event in Brisbane and we had an unforgettable and fun night!

The exclusive WomenHack event focuses on connecting talented female software engineers, UI/UX designers, and product managers with opportunities at tech companies around the world. At Go1, we believe it is important to empower women working in traditionally male-dominated industries, such as the tech and startup industries and we are always keen to talk to them about our opportunities at Go1.

Around 50 talented women joined Go1 and other attending companies to get to know each other better over wine and canapes. The atmosphere was relaxed and very inspiring as a diverse group of women exchanged experiences, interests and their diverse reasons for attending the event.

View all of the photos from WomenHack Brisbane here

The event itself was opened with a keynote speech by Go1’s Head of Product Liz Hardie. Liz has held a number of senior roles in the Product world and has been a role model to many aspiring and successful women in Brisbane. 

Here at Go1, we have been working proactively on initiatives to increase our number of female employees and we are very proud to have managed to increase the total number of female employees by 11% within the last 5 months. At present, 30% of our total workforce is made up of women and we will continue to increase the number to be part of female success stories. The Go1 Product team is a pioneer in this regard with 62% of the team made up of women and 33% from a non-English speaking background.

After the opening keynotes, it was time for the ‘speed dating’ part of the night - every employer and female attendee had five minutes for a meaningful conversation.  

It was absolutely fascinating to learn more about everyone’s background and interesting experiences to date. Sometimes we got caught up talking about our passions outside work or what we are looking for in an employer. The five minutes were up far too quickly but hopefully, this was only the first chat of many to come!

For more insights, be sure to subscribe to the Go1 newsletter to stay on top of all the latest L&D trends. Or, you can book a demo today to find out how Go1 can help with your team’s learning needs.

Next month, Go1 is hosting WomenHack’s Brisbane event, and we’re very proud to be involved in such a great initiative.

WomenHack is a community that aims to empower women in tech by facilitating access and transparency in the industry. The global initiative aims at bridging the IT gender gap and giving women additional opportunities to succeed in tech.

At Go1, we believe it’s important to empower women working in traditionally male-dominated industries, such as the tech and startup industries.

In both of these areas, there has long been an imbalance of gender, with the number of male employees outweighing women. Like the founders of WomenHack, we believe tech companies must take positive action to address this gender imbalance.

That’s why we’re so pleased to be working with WomenHack to host this event – and encourage you to get involved!

The WomenHack events are invite-only recruiting events, focused on connecting top female software engineers, UI/UX designers, and product managers with opportunities at tech companies around the world.

Attendees can expect to meet up to twenty companies in two hours, through rapid five-minute interviews in a pressure-free, fun environment. This way, you’ll get the chance to meet with the top tech companies in your city – but more importantly, the top tech companies that believe in diversity and are committed to advancing women in the workplace.

Host and sponsors will also present five-minute keynotes at the beginning of the event, to address the women in tech community and share more about their gender diversity initiatives and efforts as an organisation.

Fiona Lau, WomenHack’s Manager of Strategic Partnerships & Global Growth, says that women in tech, itself, is a pretty niche market – so the organisation tends to invite a good mix of candidates with varied backgrounds.

“We target mid-career women in tech who are developers, product managers, and UI/UX designers with at least an average of three to six years of experience. We definitely do see some women in tech in different specialisations, from testers to security to marketing/sales as well as junior talents … since we're in the business of enabling women in tech and giving them access to opportunities, we try to be as open and accessible to all.”

The WomenHack Brisbane event is taking place on Tuesday June 19th, from 7:00pm to 9:30pm.

As WomenHack says, whether you are actively looking for your next challenge, or are curious about the hiring landscape, attending these events can help you gain an understanding of the market dynamics and see which companies will fit your requirements and support the growth of your career.

If you’re an employer, register for WomenHack here.

If you’re a job seeker or attendee, register for WomenHack here.

Use the promotional code "ALLACCESS" for discounted tickets!

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