I was thinking about conversations recently and how I might blog about its impact on how dialogue fails… I know what you mean, I was talking to someone the other day and they didn’t seem to listen to anything I was saying, they just wanted to put their point across. they had all these theories… Read More I don’t want to talk about it
Strange isn’t it…I wrote last month about why I won’t join the CIPD and the blog had its busiest day since I took the mickey out of formal training sessions last year. To save you reading the post again, my concern is that the CIPD isn’t relevant to learning and development professionals. It seems that… Read More Roll out a barrel…
I read a thoughtful post by Dan Slee last month about why he won’t join a professional body; in his case it was the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. It was quite a telling post as it fell hot on the heels of the CIPD’s HRD 2013 event and I had a few members of my… Read More Why I won’t join the CIPD
I receive somewhere in the region of 400 emails a week trying to get me to buy training. I received one this week that somehow slipped through my junk filter and I was going to delete it but it promised me a very different learning experience so I read through it to find out what… Read More Buy, buy, buy!
Is it me or is there an excessive use of similes in training? My current favourite, following this good piece by Mark Sheppard, is to find the ‘learning is like…’ examples on the web. A quick search found that learning is like: Babysitting – “it interrupts what you are doing and tosses toys at you and needs… Read More Learning is like…
Lost and Desperate 