I was speaking with a group of apprentices the other day and we were discussing some of my previous jobs. My career path hasn’t been straight as an arrow (whose has?) but they were interested in one of my first roles, that of a trainee butcher. It was hard work with long hours but immensely… Read More Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker…
This post is being published as I’m speaking at the CIPD Annual Conference under the title “Advancing L&D to Create the Learning Practitioners of the Future”. It’s a long title which can be summarised in a few words: If we fail to change we die My session is co-delivered, brief, and focused, containing less in terms of content… Read More Advancing L and D
This is the next weekly blog post from my Learning Live session a short while ago. The session was about developing smaller, more workable ideas under the banner of my 50 big ideas. This post, like the others, is a stream of consciousness – I’m writing this post whilst looking at the output from the… Read More Eliminate educational language
This post is the first of the 50 small ideas from my session at Learning Live last week. If you’ve not seen about the session, you may wish to have a read of a summary of the event here before continuing. It’s also definitely worth your time reading from a participant perspective too. Number 11 of… Read More Make learning resources entirely visible
I delivered a session at Learning Live this week which (I hope) wasn’t the traditional curate’s egg – partly bad with some redeeming features. It seemed well received based on the Twitter backchannel and kind people I respect said very humbling things to me. I wanted the session to be different and used a 20/20/20 split;… Read More Curate’s Egg
Lost and Desperate 