I’m not a fan of large companies who, when selling me a service, tell me they’re ‘working with’ me. They’re not. If I pay for a service they’re working for me. This is where there needs to be a shift in learning and development. I’ve got bored of talking about moving from a shopkeeper to… Read More With you
Make a note, the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is roughly 20.1 miles per hour. We’ll come back to this shortly. I have been discussing evaluation for AGES now and am regularly brought back to the fact that we are asked to assess learning through quizzes. I’m working on some evaluation activity and we’re… Read More Quiz time
I was working on a public sector tender last week. I’ll be working on another one this week for a different organisation for something completely different. Each of them will take tens of hours to complete, and there is nil guarantee we’ll get the work from it. What matters is that, by spending so much… Read More Tenders? Chicken
I was reading a report which Martin Couzins identified the other week. In the 2024 LearnOps Trends & Insights Report, the authors – Cognota – highlight a growing emphasis on aligning L&D strategies with organisational objectives. Alignment doesn’t equal integration, which is here I think L&D should be in terms of business, but if this… Read More Alignment & integration
I was listening to the comedian Ade Edmondson the other day. He was talking about not knowing the rules of comedy and how to do it when he was put on the television. Most of us didn’t really know what we were doing so commitment was the only thing we had. Ade Edmondson When you’re… Read More Commitment
Lost and Desperate 