The CIPD has launched a new Learning and Development Network, and I’m supporting it as a ‘Champion’. I hate that word, btw – it implies I’ve beaten other people to earn the right to cll myself that. What I’m more interested in is getting into the actual detail of the work with other L&D people.… Read More Room for Unfinished Thinking
Engagement? Down. Post views? Down. Connections? Superficial and dissonant. So let’s get an LLM to write a post for me*, make it look like it’s MY expertise and launch it into the sewer of LI, hoping someone will read it, nod sagely, and think, ‘I really need to speak to Andrew.’ I’m reading SO MUCH… Read More Need to speak to Andrew
If you went to Loftus Road any time between the 1950s and the 1990s, you knew Daphne Biggs. She was secretary of the Supporters’ Club, she helped out as a commercial assistant, and if something needed doing at QPR, Daphne did it. Nobody appointed her a legend. She just became one, the way people do… Read More Corporate memory
Asked why he wrote songs, the musician Randy Newman replied: It’s how I judge myself If you ask me why I write posts, the answer is similar.
Dr Phil Hardman’s latest analysis is fascinating: in her sample of 379 UK/US L&D job ads (June–August 2026), only 1% were junior roles. That’s because AI now drafts lessons, quizzes and videos. Humans are hired – if at all – to specify, judge and measure. Outside L&D, the same is happening – PwC’s 2026 barometer… Read More A new ladder