Seth Godin’s blog post yesterday got me thinking about the placebo effect of training courses. We’re asked to run courses because ‘they work’. Is it the course which is really working or the effect of making the attention of someone, bringing them outside of their work environment, to discuss, reflect and ideate amongst themselves?
If you could add just one more thing to your presentation, your blog post, your article, your interview, what would it be? Is it really going to make that big a difference? If you could take one thing out to make it easier for the person reading, listening, or watching go down that route. People’s… Read More More or less
In 2 years time, AI will change the world. 2 years ago, I wrote this blog post. My spellcheck still can’t correct the word ‘next’. The spellcheck is stupid. It’s not AI because it’s just following a process and can’t understand my writing’s tone, purpose, audience, etc. 2022 – I won’t hold my breath.
I was talking to someone at Learning Technologies yesterday about language. It was in the lunchtime session being run by Christine Locher about values. I mentioned to the person with me that I thought they had integrity; their view was that they were authentic. Does language like this matter? Maybe not now but the next… Read More Authentic language
When you ‘do’ comms are you really communicating? This thread on Twitter last week made me think about how we’re communicating our work. I’d guess every team, behind every single poster on the doctor’s wall, were able to tick off the comms on their implementation plan (as Elaine suggests). Doing a poster, lost in the… Read More Comms
Lost and Desperate 