Waltham Forest Council issued my wife a PCN for entering a School Streets zone. She had a valid permit, and their own system confirmation said so. I submitted formal representations to the published email address within the statutory window and attached the valid permit. I didn’t get an acknowledgement, so I chased, but still nothing.… Read More Something personal
Ask an L&D team what a training programme costs, and you will get an answer. Room hire, facilitator day rates, licence fees, and content development time. Some teams will go further: hours away from desks, travel, and internal coordination. That is useful. It is also incomplete in ways that matter. The costs L&D can see… Read More Cost of learning
I have written about this before; I have clinical anxiety that is managed with medication and CBT, but it’s still there. It doesn’t go away, and it’s part of who I am. I had a conversation recently that reminded me why I post about this. Because people look at me and don’t see it. They… Read More Fine Is Complicated
Job titles will often tell you what the organisation thinks the work is. I came across a role titled Learning and Development Consultant. That signals something specific: Diagnosis, advisory work, shaping demand, and owning outcomes beyond activity. The job description told a different story. Build content, run the LMS, translate briefs into modules, fix user… Read More Doing what?
You can prepare for everything: the slides, the mic, the sound, the room, the speakers, the notes, and the images. And then, midway through the session, you lose power for a fraction of a second, and you disappear. You can always prepare, but some things will always trip you up. The response isn’t to prepare… Read More Preparation
Lost and Desperate 