As I tell guests when we record, Women Talking About Learning is probably my favourite thing to do in L&D. Hearing smart women say smart things is always an opportunity worth seizing, more so when the guests are new. Twice a year we open the podcast up for new guests. This is one of those… Read More Have your say
Every month I send a newsletter called Llarn Lens. It isn’t a digest of LinkedIn posts or a sales email. It’s where I step back and connect the ideas emerging from consultancy, public sector work, research, podcast conversations and the questions organisations are wrestling with. The July edition landed in subscribers’ inboxes this morning. This… Read More Catching up?
I’ll not be watching the England World Cup semi-final on Wednesday. Not because I don’t want to but because I’ll be watching System of a Down live for the first time. I’ll be with my eldest son, and we could have swerved the gig to watch the game, but he’s not really a football fan;… Read More Your priorities
That’s the number of unread newsletters, webinar invites, updates, and reminders sent as marketing in my inbox. I separate them with a cool filter so I look at them last, at the end of the day, and usually delete them unread. I didn’t today and had a brief look through them, not for any reason… Read More 57
About a year ago I wrote about my fear that Skills England might end up too education-first and not enough performance-first. The latest changes are a reminder that apprenticeships are now being shaped by a more centralised funding system, not just by organisational need. Two things changed, and they are not the same thing. Skills… Read More Apprenticeships Are Not the Whole Plan