I saw Don Taylor’s post last week about the fears people are expressing about AI and its impact on L&D. I’m keen to see the next Global Sentiment Survey results when they’re published, but I think we still don’t understand the underlying strategic problem we are failing to address. AI skill acquisition is not a… Read More Category Error
Sometimes the chance to catch up with people is too good to miss. An afternoon at the World of Learning and then a face-to-face catch-up with a colleague, friend and mentor can really satisfy the soul. I mentioned cognitive overload last week; planning time in to properly engage with people is so much more valuable… Read More Face to Face
Seth Godin recently asked: why open a bookshop when people already have libraries, Amazon, and booksellers they trust? We build infrastructure because it feels like progress. Because we can point to it. Because it proves we’re serious. But the infrastructure itself isn’t the asset. The trust and attention you earn is the asset. In L&D,… Read More The Bookshop Problem
One day last week I spent fourteen hours working. In front of screens for pretty much the entire day, I was researching, writing, calculating and completing spreadsheets, reports and producing charts and analysis. I was in a happy place and didn’t realise the time that passed. When you’re in that Csíkszentmihályi flow state, you miss… Read More Doing nothing
The problem with curating content for people is that they always want something extra and something different. So we find three versions of a video, four handouts, and six links. Soon your audience will have so much choice they won’t know what to use. Recommendations are worthless because things can’t be found. Make sure you… Read More Too much choice
Lost and Desperate 