Yesterday was the Podcast Learning Festival, and it was brilliant. Thank you to everyone who spoke, chaired, contributed, engaged, and took part in the conversations. It was the proudest I have felt of the learning profession in a long time. There was a hum all day. A constant, building, room-filling hum of conversation that didn’t… Read More A Community Moment
Today is the day of the Podcast Learning Festival. It is the first full event I’ve ever produced, the first I’ve chaired fully, and the first I’ve charged people for. Here goes.
Build a learning culture.You can’t – it exists already in your organisation. You can create nudges to move towards the culture you want but you can’t build/create/design it. Make people learn.You can’t. Learning is voluntary and contextual. You can create conditions and relevance, but you can’t force the process or people into the process; this… Read More How do I?
I saw a great post from Seth Godin last week – it was about him playing a word game and being disincentivised to play it because he could see how he ranked against the other people playing. We forget that gamification needs to be opted in; people won’t compete just because you say so. It’s… Read More Competitive learning
The L&D Global Sentiment Survey 2026 came out last week and massive respect to Donald H. Taylor yet again for wrangling 3,797 replies across 105 countries and 13 years of data. The headline is that AI interest has peaked, but for me the real story sits underneath. Practitioners are writing more than ever about their… Read More The BYOAI Trap
Lost and Desperate 