I’ve been sitting with a pattern I’m seeing more clearly recently, and it’s in the ‘leadership’ space. Organisations aren’t saying leadership development is pointless; they’re saying something more uncomfortable. Their previous attempts haven’t really landed. Not because the programmes were badly designed. Not because people didn’t try.But because leadership development quietly drifted into something fragmented,… Read More Leadership as Practice
Educational Measurement (Fifth Edition), edited by Educational Measurement and produced by the National Council on Measurement in Education, is out at the end of February. It pulls together current research and guidance across the full measurement landscape. Validity. Reliability. Fairness. Interpretation. Consequences. The chapters are written by people who have spent decades arguing about this… Read More Learning, Measured Seriously
To draw a conclusion. Without evidence, it’s a guess.
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
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?
Lost and Desperate 