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Category: Learning
Three conversations
As I crawled towards the end of 2025, the hope of 2026 kept me going. I opened my laptop last week, and January abruptly arrived with the usual noise: new plans, new expectations, and a rush to make the year look bigger than the last. Rather than joining that noise, I think L&D teams would… Read More Three conversations
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?
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
Lost and Desperate 