I saw a post about a public-sector training framework in my feed recently, and it got well over a hundred comments. I read them all, and it’s left me feeling a bit dismayed. Firstly, most of the comments were tags: “thought of you”, “one for us?”. That’s fair enough – that’s how LinkedIn works. But… Read More “How do we tender for this?”
Today is day 3 of the Learning Technologies Autumn Forum. What was interesting was how day 2 came back to the same issue from three quite different directions: content isn’t the hard bit. Lavinia Mehedintu used behavioural science to look beyond capability to the conditions that allow behaviour to change and argued for L&D to… Read More Beyond content
Back in June 2022, I wrote about a definition of capability that I’ve used for years. Capability = Capacity + Ability Where capacity is the space to perform and ability is the skill to perform. My argument then was that developing people’s skills wasn’t enough. The environment they work in, the relationships they depend on… Read More More about capability
Back in 2012, Seth Godin wrote about confusing correlation with causation. When lots of people are carrying umbrellas, it’s raining. So if you want to make it rain, give everyone an umbrella. Preferably a black one. Fourteen years later, it feels rather relevant to L&D and AI. People are using AI because it’s available, built… Read More Everyone’s got an umbrella
The first three sessions of the Learning Technologies Autumn Forum were on Tuesday, and despite very different starting points, I kept hearing versions of the same argument. L&D needs to get closer to performance. David Wilson from Fosway challenged the continued fixation with products and delivery. Chris Dawes at Tesco talked with Udemy about what… Read More What is happening?