Yesterday I wrote about the need to shift to demand-led approaches which respond to the three A’s of learning – Awareness, Acquisition, and Application. Serendipitously, I was reading a chapter six in The Productivity Agenda paper which was released yesterday as part of National Productivity Week in the UK. The chapter is about skills for… Read More Design for productivity
I’ve written four or five times about the need to critically assess our learning support across these three specific lenses: I am constantly reminded how learning and development seems to think that acquisition is the most critical element. Most people, most of the time, don’t need to learn new things; yes it’s a sweeping generalisation… Read More Design for demand
they only have degrees of success. We tried out a Learning Chat Live on Friday and it was either: A complete nightmare. People couldn’t see messages, there was no direction, chat was lost, comments were difficult to see, people were in the wrong place, and some people never got in the event. Or: It was… Read More Pilots don’t fail
My name isn’t especially difficult to pronounce – I do hear different variations occasionally, most usually my forename being shortened to Andy*. There are now countless tools to help people pronounce names correctly; LinkedIn has an option to upload a recording and I recently found Namedrop where you can upload a recording which anyone can… Read More What’s in a name?
I’m pulling together a dozen ideas to produce some workshop material next year about improving evaluation practice in learning and development – keep looking out for it early next year. One area I’ve been focusing on has been bias. There isn’t bias in data per se, just bias in what’s collected, when, how, why, who… Read More Bias in data
Lost and Desperate 