Originally posted on Flip Chart Fairy Tales:
At the Resolution Foundation’s pay event last week, someone asked a question about immigration. Alison Wolf was leaving but, just as she was on her way out she remarked that, while immigration might not have had an impact on wages, it has reduced the amount of training given by employers.…
I had to pause and bite my tongue this week. In my haste to deliver I’d forgotten how to debate effectively and broke one of these rules. Reading Donald Taylor’s succinct post recently made me realise that these rules need to be more well known. 1. Thou shall not attack a person’s character but the… Read More The Ten Commandments of Rational Debate
I used to work in for the fire brigade but I didn’t ever put out fires. People would still make suggestive comments about uniforms, poles and helmets. Really? I used to work as a butcher and my girlfriend at the time was a vegetarian. ‘How does that work then?’ people would ask. They seemed to assume… Read More Really?
This post follows the #ldinsight chat from the 6 March 2015. The chat ebbed and flowed as the best ones do and I was prompted to post the following: #LDInsight A L&D professional will know when e-learning should be used, integrated, avoided etc. Different skill and attitude required. — Andrew Jacobs (@AndrewJacobsLD) March 6, 2015… Read More Whose job is it anyway?
I’ve written about labels before and have noticed this week that there seems to be a storm brewing about a current fashionable label – disruption. I’m not sure if it’s a wave of ‘anti-disruption’ forming or people struggling to define what we believe to be right or wrong as Sukhvinder Pabial so eloquently put yesterday. I occasionally… Read More Just the way you are
Lost and Desperate 