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Lost and Desperate

Random ramblings that might, or might not, relate to training, learning, development, and management

Author: andrewjacobslnd

An L&D Manager, determined that Learning and Development should be an integral part of business activity. Too often managers ask for training as an afterthought, and, since L&D haven't been involved in the design, it fails. Let's get L&D included as an intrinsic part of business practice; we need to demonstrate its value, successes, and how it adds to the business performance.

Was it you?

If you’re going to use Chat GPT, Bard, and other LLM when you’re creating blog posts, at least acknowledge when you have. There’s someone I know professionally who seems to be using these tools for pretty much every post they make on LinkedIn now. How do we know? There are sentences of standard length, grammar,… Read More Was it you?

October 23, 2023October 22, 2023 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

Over qualified

I was re-reading the CIPD 2023 Good Work Index the other day and noticed a couple of interesting data points. The first one is that almost a third of the people surveyed (over 5 thousand) felt they were overqualified for their job. The second point was that the same proportion of people felt they can… Read More Over qualified

October 20, 2023October 20, 2023 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

Taking credit

A thought experiment: Someone learns something at work and the learning function don’t get credit for it. Does it matter? And if it does, who to?

October 19, 2023October 16, 2023 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

Producers vs Thinkers

I saw this excellent quote the other day: We used the word producer to describe the student who was only interested in getting right answers, and who made more or less uncritical use of rules and formulae to get them; we called thinker the student who tried to think about the meaning, the reality, of whatever it was he… Read More Producers vs Thinkers

October 18, 2023October 17, 2023 andrewjacobslnd2 Comments

Tacit knowledge

I hear a lot about tacit knowledge; knowledge which is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalising it. It’s our knowledge which is rooted in personal experiences, hands-on practice, context, intuition, and insights. How are you differentiating between that and cognitive bias? If you’re supporting people in the… Read More Tacit knowledge

October 17, 2023October 16, 2023 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

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