This week has felt like working in some kind of mission control. Multiple screens, multiple remote groups, and issues that need dealing with immediately. Nothing life or death, but things that have a big impact on the people involved. When something went wrong, someone noticed and sorted it within minutes. Leave it an hour, and… Read More Mission Control
There was a TV series on the BBC over the summer called Race Against the Tide. It was a six-part competition, pairing novice sculptors with professional artists. They had six hours to build enormous sand sculptures before the incoming North Sea tide washed them away. The state of L&D feels a bit like this. The… Read More Race against the tide
I’m a fan of GIFs. They’re mostly low bandwidth, can demonstrate a series of screenshots with added text, and sometimes work just as well as a video. I’ve used one in learning, for example, to show people how to log into an HR platform and register sickness absence. It was shared more than 1,000 times… Read More Giffage
I was working through a tender last week from a public body with the usual stack of documents. The insurance section asked for employer’s liability at £10m, public liability at £5m and professional indemnity at £1m. Pass/fail. We don’t have employer’s liability insurance because we don’t employ anyone. Llarn is two directors and a pool… Read More Ask the question
One of the posts I put out on LinkedIn last week did nothing. Very few views and almost no engagement. Another was seen by 30+ people every minute in the first hour and then…nothing. A third post was quiet for a couple of days and then ended up with many thousands of views. The numbers… Read More Watching numbers