Looking back at 2025, I am highlighting the posts that have garnered the most comments and views on LinkedIn as well as my personal favourites. Today it’s the posts which people have commented on and shared the most. At number five was the callout to the Third Sector for guests on the Women Talking About… Read More Top 5 comments
Occasionally you have a conversation and think nothing of it. For the person you’re speaking with, though, it’s a deep and meaningful interaction for them which they’ll remember for days, weeks, or even years later. Don’t diminish your impact and the effects that you can – and do – create.
Reading a survey from Personio and HR Grapevine last week, this result confirms what many suspect: This single line exposes the L&D profession’s measurement crisis. When leadership rarely asks about learning effectiveness, and HR finds it among the hardest metrics to report on, we’ve created a perfect storm of irrelevance. Nobody’s asking because nobody expects… Read More Performance first
Apparently the new playbook is: “Don’t do the hard work of strategy. Just rebrand your favourite tools and policies as one.” Somehow: Calling something a strategy doesn’t make it one – please note the people who published a new strategy last week. It landed in my inbox and it was underwhelming in the extreme. If… Read More Strategy (Sponsored by…)
Collaboration theatre…saying we’re collaborating, labelling it, everyone pretending we’re collaborating but we’re all just doing our own thing. L&D sees collaboration theatre more clearly than most. We sit across teams and see where work joins up and where it doesn’t. Worst of all, we’re often asked to “support collaboration” without anyone changing the conditions required… Read More Collaboration theatre
Lost and Desperate 