I was chairing a Learning Technologies webinar last week (please come along – they’re good fun) and a question was asked by the presenters: How much of your current learning catalogue do you think gets used? Answers ranged from 10% to 80%. One person didn’t know; someone else said 80%. Others landed at 40% and… Read More Catalogue or Capability
In 2014 I wrote my most read blog post. It was a response to a post on TeachThought that set out 50 radical ideas to change education. Back then, the tone was disruption, and the point was to challenge the factory model of L&D and call time on the assumptions that held it in place.… Read More 50 More Big Ideas
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