Learning at Work Week is a good moment to celebrate what works. It is also a chance to ask what commissioners could do better, starting with a question that rarely appears in procurement: who is actually doing the delivery? Much public sector learning is delivered through a chain of primes, specialist partners and associates. That… Read More The associate question nobody is asking
In 2014 I wrote my most read blog post. It was a response to a post on TeachThought that set out 50 radical ideas to change education. Back then, the tone was disruption, and the point was to challenge the factory model of L&D and call time on the assumptions that held it in place.… Read More 50 More Big Ideas
Laura Overton has been doing serious L&D research for 20 years. so when she says a study matters, I pay attention. The CIPD is repeating its L&D research. and this time they’ve done something different. Instead of asking one part of the system what it thinks, they’re asking everyone with a stake in how learning… Read More Do This Today
An oxymoron is a combination of contradictory or incongruous words. My favourite exemplar is this: The military intelligenceTwo words combined that can’t make sense Megadeth – Hangar 18 I saw an L&D oxymoron the other week, mandatory engagement. Really? Can you mandate that people are engaged? A few more I discovered: Some are just sloppy… Read More Oxymoron
If you tell people they have to “access it through the portal”, you’re setting a very high bar. A portal is an escape to another world, a place where time and space shift and where wondrous things happen. If it takes me to an e-learning course, I will judge you harshly.
Lost and Desperate 