In a corporate setting we do not always have the luxury of focusing enough time on research and learning new creative solutions..often due to tight deadlines. So, I find myself often researching new creative ideas and solutions "off the clock."

One advantage that I have found working on a corporate training team is that others on the team will share research and creative solutions they have found. This allows for a lot of learning development opportunities. In fact, recently we have started having "development meetings" in which each person on the training team has facilitated presentations on their particular expertise. I provided a 3-hour long overview on online learning (including "what's next in online learning"), a team-mate provided PowerPoint training in a computer lab, and next week we have a team-mate providing a "conducting webinars" workshop.

So, when budgets are too tight for conferences and workloads are heavy we are still able to continue our development.