I saw a post by Donald H Taylor on LinkedIn the other day where he invited comments on how a new learning leader might approach their role: You’re new in post as a head of L&D. Your boss gives you one week to submit a strategy and a detailed annual budget. What should you do?… Read More How do you start?
In a tweet yesterday from the Learning Live event in London, the following was on a slide: 89% do not find it easy to demonstrate Return on Learning Investment. Learning Live London 14 September 2022 This should be learning’s number 1 priority. Evaluation isn’t easy but there’s almost nothing in the learning field to make… Read More Prove your worth
Complicated challenges are rarely solved with simple solutions. On the occasions they are, it’s likely that someone has done the heavy thinking – creative and critical thought – to understand the relationship between the different elements of the problem. The smart learning people will know there isn’t a simple solution to every problem. Don’t be… Read More Simplicity
I was reading an article the other day which started referencing the famous Confucius quote: I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius Except Confucius didn’t say it – the wording has been misattributed to him. A similar phrase was first noted by Xunzi and it looks… Read More Who said…
While I was away I realised the problem so many learning teams have with social learning. They want to regulate the learning part when it’s the social part which drives it. But you can’t regulate the social bit without becoming the social police. Learning people then spend more energy on limiting the learning bit in… Read More The problem with social learning
Lost and Desperate 