Just a reminder for people who don’t seem to get the thinking about learning culture in the workplace. YOU. CAN’T. CHANGE. A. WORKPLACE. LEARNING. CULTURE. JUST. BY. ADDING. A. NEW. LEARNING. PLATFORM. You have to change all of these and a few more: Attitudes, behaviours, groupthink, systems, aims, structures, skills, objectives, skills, strategies, processes, tactics,… Read More A reminder about culture
I put a post out yesterday about the cutting back people have to make. It came from a germ of an idea I had about learning and budgets some time ago and was first drafted some time back. How long ago? 11 years. Sometimes an idea takes its time and finds its natural place to… Read More It takes its time
I don’t have green fingers; everything I grow tends to die through over or under watering. I’m always amazed when something I see re-growth in the Spring from a lifeless Winter. What makes this work is hard pruning, i.e. cutting back to create space for regrowth. Knowing what to cut, when and why is the… Read More Cutting back hard
Over the long Bank Holiday weekend in the UK there’s a tradition for some radio stations to play their ultimate 500 tracks. One channel was doing it over this weekend; I know this only because I was in the car on Friday afternoon and heard it announced on the car radio. The only time I… Read More Listen to the radio
My company sponsors a player at Queens Park Rangers and, as part of that activity, we got to visit the training ground yesterday. It has state of the art facilities but the key element for me was the image attached. It doesn’t matter how good you are, how skilled you are, how talented you are.… Read More Putting a shift in
Lost and Desperate 