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Lost and Desperate

Random ramblings that might, or might not, relate to training, learning, development, and management

Category: Learning

Follow through

I get really frustrated when I see stuff like this: “The Premier League strongly condemns any form of abuse or violence against women and girls and takes these issues extremely seriously.” A Premier League spokesperson The frustration comes from lots of things – how we got into this state, why we have to have separate… Read More Follow through

February 21, 2022February 19, 2022 andrewjacobslnd2 Comments

Get with it grand-dad

I read this article last week about how someone had developed a way to tap into Zoom’s “Breakout Rooms” API to create speed networking online. My immediate reaction was that this was cheesy, exploitative, wrong, and unworkable. One small problem – I hadn’t even read the article at this point. Why did I react like… Read More Get with it grand-dad

February 17, 2022February 11, 2022 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

Test yourself

I missed the story earlier in the year about ByteDance, the Chinese internet company which owns TikTok, eliminated its Talent Development team in December. Thanks to Kate Graham for reminding me about it. If you work in Learning you need to be afraid. A look at some of the choice phrases the company used to… Read More Test yourself

February 15, 2022February 16, 2022 andrewjacobslnd1 Comment

Optimal learnplace

I saw an article from the Harvard Business Review last week trying to frame the argument around what the optimal workplace would look like. Do we ask what the optimal learnplace might be? And wouldn’t the answer be ‘it depends’?

February 14, 2022February 10, 2022 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

Sound and vision

I got a couple of things wrong over the last few days. These included scheduling blog posts at the wrong time and recording audio with the wrong microphone. They’re not fatal errors, and easily fixed. What I don’t do is pretend they haven’t happened. Showing my working matters to me for a few reasons. Firstly,… Read More Sound and vision

February 11, 2022February 7, 2022 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

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