I’ll keep calling it out. Last week I saw an event later this year with a genuinely balanced speaker lineup. But they’re promoting their podcast alongside it, so I had a look. Eight episodes of one-to-one interviews with eight guests. Here’s the diversity breakdown: Or to put it plainly: all men. All white. All but… Read More You keep doing it…
I’ve been against video podcasts for ages; the editing, production, and distribution all take more than an audio-only podcast. But. There is a significant move towards video podcasts now and an expectation that video needs to be part of the offer. This means a big change in a lot of the work that I might… Read More Pushing back
I heard a CEO the other day, in a corporate video, say: “Strategy without impact is a piece of paper.” Fair enough. But if measuring impact isn’t written into the strategy from the start, the strategy was never serious. Most organisations plan the intervention, but nobody plans the evidence. If you didn’t design for evidence… Read More Impact doesn’t measure itself
It’s in your search engine. Your word processor. Your browser. Your grammar checker. Your research platform. You didn’t choose to work in an AI-enabled environment – opening your laptop put you in it. So when a contract, partner, client, or associate says, “no AI,” what does that mean? It’s not about workflow – you might… Read More I didn’t use AI
I posted yesterday about the shift from studio to system in L&D. That post diagnosed the problem; this post attempts to respond to it. If the organisation is already producing learning without you, the answer is not to compete with it, ignore it or drag everything back into the formal offer. The answer is to… Read More Learning Reality: Six Shifts from Studio to System
Lost and Desperate 