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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.

Learning Awards

It was the LPI Learning Awards last night. I won. Twice. Gold as part of the team from the Dept of Health and Social Care (DHSC) delivering Lateral Flow Testing training. Bronze for Learning Professional of the Year setting up my business, podcast, daily blogs, writing a book on performance consulting for the Charity Learning… Read More Learning Awards

February 18, 2022February 18, 2022 andrewjacobslnd2 Comments

Get with it grand-dad

I read this article last week about how someone had developed a way to tap into Zoom’s “Breakout Rooms” API to create speed networking online. My immediate reaction was that this was cheesy, exploitative, wrong, and unworkable. One small problem – I hadn’t even read the article at this point. Why did I react like… Read More Get with it grand-dad

February 17, 2022February 11, 2022 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

999

999 is the emergency number for the UK. It’s also the number of this blog posts on my blog – some 999 blog posts have, over a dozen years or so, been written, edited, and published. It feels like it’s important somehow. I don’t quite know why though. Tomorrow we enter a new millennium of… Read More 999

February 16, 2022February 16, 2022 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

Test yourself

I missed the story earlier in the year about ByteDance, the Chinese internet company which owns TikTok, eliminated its Talent Development team in December. Thanks to Kate Graham for reminding me about it. If you work in Learning you need to be afraid. A look at some of the choice phrases the company used to… Read More Test yourself

February 15, 2022February 16, 2022 andrewjacobslnd1 Comment

Optimal learnplace

I saw an article from the Harvard Business Review last week trying to frame the argument around what the optimal workplace would look like. Do we ask what the optimal learnplace might be? And wouldn’t the answer be ‘it depends’?

February 14, 2022February 10, 2022 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

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