Completion not control

I like trawling through old posts. It reminds me of ideas I had, what I was saying at the time, whether I have been consistent and whether I am still sticking to my values. I was doing that the other day and found a post from six years ago about “hate reading”: forcing yourself to… Read More Completion not control

Andrew Bot

I decided, after last week’s post, to delegate all my posting to an AI agent. This is how the conversation went: Andrew: Write me a LinkedIn post about resilience. Andrew Bot: Here’s your post.“Resilience isn’t just bouncing back. It’s bouncing forward.”I used three em dashes, opened with “Here’s the thing” and described resilience as a… Read More Andrew Bot

Number jumble

I came across a webinar last week called: “9 Speaking Strategies that Drive Team & Learner Engagement Up 75%.” It promised to help people control their voices, choose better words, adapt to any listener, appear more confident and improve their speaking style. All in an hour. Now, some of the techniques may be useful –… Read More Number jumble

Data or information?

Most dashboards are data pretending to be information. The two aren’t the same thing, and the gap between them is where most workforce reporting quietly fails. Data is what you gather. Attendance figures, completion rates, sickness absence, incident logs, and survey scores. It’s raw and just sits in a spreadsheet or system, doing nothing on… Read More Data or information?

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Centre of the universe

People used to believe that the Earth was the centre of the universe and that the stars, planets, and sun revolved around it. Then we looked at the science and realised we were wrong. People used to believe that the L&D function was the centre of learning in the organisation and no one learnt unless… Read More Centre of the universe

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