I posted yesterday about the shift from studio to system in L&D. That post diagnosed the problem; this post attempts to respond to it. If the organisation is already producing learning without you, the answer is not to compete with it, ignore it or drag everything back into the formal offer. The answer is to… Read More Learning Reality: Six Shifts from Studio to System
TV used to be built around exclusivity. Stars, studios, big budgets, broadcast slots, production crews and commissioning decisions. If you wanted to appear on screen, someone had to let you in. Now much of TV is reality-driven. People spend more time watching other people live, compete, react, explain, perform and document themselves in entertaining ways.… Read More Learning Reality
This week has been interesting. Delivery and design, coupled with an urgent tender activity. We often forget to build space into our calendars for urgency; this came up in a conversation when I realised that being busy is meaningless if it’s just making more stuff which doesn’t move you commercially. I’m not sure what this… Read More Building space
One of the useful things about conversation is not just the chance to share ideas but also the space to shape them. A conversation this week helped me refine something I’ve been noticing for a while. When people tell me they want to start a podcast, a bit of discussion usually reveals they have three… Read More Product or Business
Learning at Work Week is a good moment to celebrate what works. It is also a chance to ask what commissioners could do better, starting with a question that rarely appears in procurement: who is actually doing the delivery? Much public sector learning is delivered through a chain of primes, specialist partners and associates. That… Read More The associate question nobody is asking