I was out and about yesterday. Firstly, I went to the The CPD & Retrain Expo at the Excel. Having the chance to see what people outside my usual circles think about learning, development, training, coaching etc. was illuminating. Most interesting was chatting with other attendees and getting a sense of how far corporate learning… Read More Learning hangover
I was reading the latest WFH research data from the U.S. Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes at Stanford earlier this week. It shows that about 25% of all paid workdays in the US are now done from home, and employer plans have settled at around 1.4 days per week as standard. I’m doing some… Read More REALLY modern learning
Seth Godin writes about landlords and tenants. Tenants trade labour. Landlords build assets that grow when they’re not in the room. Most of my work has been rented out: consulting hours, delivery, presence, etc.. But the shift is happening. Podcasts, frameworks, the podcast learning festival, a new book outline I’m working on. These are assets.… Read More More landlord, less tenant
Seth Godin recently wrote about “ghost cities” – systems that still stand, still run, still look like infrastructure, but no longer hold real life. In workplace learning, the ghost city isn’t the LMS or the framework itself.It’s the assumptions they were built on: Those assumptions haven’t been true for years and this is why clarity… Read More Ghost infrastructure
I’ve been speaking with a lot of people recently across HR, OD, L&D and consultancy. Senior and experienced people who have led real change and real work. The same patterns keep coming up: This isn’t about capability and it isn’t that the work has disappeared but the context has changed. I’ve said this before but… Read More Strategic Ambiguity
Lost and Desperate 