Every organisation I work with wants better visibility of skills. That’s the right call – workforce planners can’t plan against roles that no longer describe the work. Reward teams can’t price capability they can’t see. L&D can’t target investment against a workforce it has never properly mapped. Something has changed in how work gets done,… Read More Skills visibility
I was looking at Gartner’s new HR Strategy on a Page template. It is tidy; it separates the current state, future state, assumptions and initiatives. It asks HR leaders to identify business scenarios before developing the strategy. Then the business largely disappears. The final page asks for four to seven metrics describing the current and… Read More Free from Business
Ten years ago, I wrote a post about things I had overheard, read or been prompted to think about. I asked: Wouldn’t it be a ‘good’ idea if we stopped worrying about seats at tables?I still hear this conversation ten years later. L&D still talks about getting a seat at the table as though influence… Read More Ten years later…
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?