I was looking through a report which had surveyed 2,100 professionals within the marketing, creative, technology, beauty, fashion, and retail sectors across the US, Canada, and the UK. Their four main barriers the respondents reported which limited upskilling were: If you work in the learning function creating harder, better, faster, stronger, isn’t necessarily going to… Read More Barriers to upskilling
When I worked in local government, we were faced with some really tough financial decisions and these fed through to the learning function. We decided to withdraw refreshments from face to face courses and the money saved was the equivalent of 0.6 FTE. What was the value we created by taking refreshments away? The downside… Read More True value
I see (and read) dozens of reports, surveys, and white papers every week. As I mentioned recently, these can say one thing or the complete opposite. I tend to be a bit sceptical though and will, where possible, look to the source data. This is where digging down and looking at the stories behind the… Read More The germ of truth
I’m at the Future of Learning and Work Event at Palexpo in Geneva for a couple of days. It’s French speaking event (je parle un petit peu du Francais) with some English speaking sessions. I’m keen to see what’s being exhibited and how the future of work and learning are interpreted by the exhibitors and… Read More Somewhere new
The post in question was the telegraph pole up my road. One Friday a couple of weeks ago our internet connection just died. A quick check outside and the fibre cable to our house was hanging from the house as engineers had cut the cable at the post to remove and replace the telegraph pole.… Read More A post about a post
Lost and Desperate 