Broken promises
L&D vendor webinars promise outcome-led learning, then subject us to hour-long platform demos nobody asked for. We’d never design learning like that for our people, so why do we accept being sold to that way?
Category: Learning
Performance first
Reading a survey from Personio and HR Grapevine last week, this result confirms what many suspect: This single line exposes the L&D profession’s measurement crisis. When leadership rarely asks about learning effectiveness, and HR finds it among the hardest metrics to report on, we’ve created a perfect storm of irrelevance. Nobody’s asking because nobody expects… Read More Performance first
Collaboration theatre
Collaboration theatre…saying we’re collaborating, labelling it, everyone pretending we’re collaborating but we’re all just doing our own thing. L&D sees collaboration theatre more clearly than most. We sit across teams and see where work joins up and where it doesn’t. Worst of all, we’re often asked to “support collaboration” without anyone changing the conditions required… Read More Collaboration theatre
Someone else’s problem
If nobody owns AI in learning, AI owns your learners. Earlier this week I showed you structural exclusion in a music festival lineup: 70% male headliners across five years. Small decisions repeated over time created a big pattern. The same thing is now happening with AI in European workplaces, especially financial services, where small procurement… Read More Someone else’s problem
New ideas
When Led Zeppelin first performed Stairway to Heaven, the audience reaction wasn’t what you’d expect: “They were all bored to tears waiting to hear something they knew” John Paul Jones It takes a LONG time for people to realise what you’re doing is different, unique, and challenging the norms. New ideas might not be good… Read More New ideas
Lost and Desperate 