Joining instructions
You WILL be at THIS place at THIS time for THIS duration with THESE people. You WILL START at this time and FINISH at this time. The term instruction feels very order-like. Are LnD also expecting people to be followers?
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.
Top Trumps
Top Trumps is a card game I played in the 70s. I had different sets – sports cars, warships, etc – and remember playing for hours at a time, trying to work out the strategies to beat the deck. I think we spend a bit of time in LnD trying to equalise our Top Trumps… Read More Top Trumps
Learning costs
You’ve factored in the cost of design and product. The delivery, publishing, printing, and communication costs. Hosting costs, both physical and digital are included. That 30-minute e-learning module has a direct cost of several thousand pounds. Budget approved. That 30-minute module deployed to an employee group of 25k people will be 12,500 hours. Using the… Read More Learning costs
Boggabri Library
Boggabri Library is part of Central Northern Regional Library in Boggabri, a small town in north-western New South Wales, Australia. It is open every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday and offers a range of services and resources for all ages including books, magazines, DVD’s,CD’s and newspapers. E-books, e-audio, e-magazines and legal music downloads are also all… Read More Boggabri Library
Developing leadership capability
I was thinking about the time, energy and effort we put into making people more effective leaders. People have made careers out of it although it seems – to me at least – like Mexican food. Helen Amery called it out the other day as a volume issue. Wouldn’t it be simpler to just make… Read More Developing leadership capability
Lost and Desperate 