Culture shocks

I was working with a group last week and mentioned how the last decade has thrown up three substantial shocks to society, the economy and the workplace. In 2016, the UK voted for Brexit and began three years of debate about what would happen with work. In 2019 and 2020, Covid changed where we worked… Read More Culture shocks

What’s really changing?

It’s Day 4 of the Learnign Technologies Autumn Forum today. Day 3 kept coming back to the same question: is AI changing L&D, or just helping us do familiar things faster? Lori Niles-Hofmann talked about moving beyond the course towards orchestration, connecting data, systems, content, practice and business need. Noorie Sazen argued for preparing people… Read More What’s really changing?

“How do we tender for this?”

I saw a post about a public-sector training framework in my feed recently, and it got well over a hundred comments. I read them all, and it’s left me feeling a bit dismayed. Firstly, most of the comments were tags: “thought of you”, “one for us?”. That’s fair enough – that’s how LinkedIn works. But… Read More “How do we tender for this?”

Beyond content

Today is day 3 of the Learning Technologies Autumn Forum. What was interesting was how day 2 came back to the same issue from three quite different directions: content isn’t the hard bit. Lavinia Mehedintu used behavioural science to look beyond capability to the conditions that allow behaviour to change and argued for L&D to… Read More Beyond content

More about capability

Back in June 2022, I wrote about a definition of capability that I’ve used for years. Capability = Capacity + Ability Where capacity is the space to perform and ability is the skill to perform. My argument then was that developing people’s skills wasn’t enough. The environment they work in, the relationships they depend on… Read More More about capability