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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.

Ownership and accountability

Asking someone to do something to help you is a powerful question, particularly if you’re in a hierarchical position of perceived power. If you hand the same person the problem and your support to help them solve it, you hand them the power.

January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

What’s the best learning platform?

I quite like the phone but you can’t beat a space to chat at work. Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram seem pretty popular and open to most. Internet message boards and networks like Yammer have been around for a while and still have regular users. Radio listeners are up. Podcasts are the new radio. What about… Read More What’s the best learning platform?

January 16, 2019January 16, 2019 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

Pilots don’t fail

I don’t mean pilots in the Checklist Manifesto sense. I mean pilots as small group projects which can be used as experiments, tests, and hacks. They work to small scale and pilots don’t fail; they just have different degrees of success. Pilot everything. In different places, at different times, with different people. Use the data… Read More Pilots don’t fail

January 15, 2019January 14, 2019 andrewjacobslnd2 Comments

Let me just record that

The date of the webinar is in your calendar. You’ve looked at the cover notes and are keen to join it. 5 minutes before the event, you’re called into an urgent activity so miss the start. When you sort the immediate issue, you’ve missed half so you decide to watch the recording. But you never… Read More Let me just record that

January 14, 2019January 10, 2019 andrewjacobslnd2 Comments

The new normal

When I was a kid, the thought of jetpacks, flying cars, and video communicators being available in the future was a tantalising and encouraging fantasy. Now that we’re IN my future, one out of three isn’t too great I’d guess. The future was framed as the fantastic; there would be technology to ease everything we did.… Read More The new normal

January 11, 2019January 9, 2019 andrewjacobslnd2 Comments

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