I am regularly asked for advice from people about developing their career, practice, profession, etc. I understand why people ask; I appear to know what I’m talking about and am readily accessible by email, LinkedIn and other social channels. My answer, however, for pretty much everyone is I don’t know. I don’t know your context,… Read More What do I need to know?
I was at an event recently and a speaker was late so was asked to do a 20 minute slot, unscripted, no props/slides etc. I spoke, of course, about organisational learning and design. If it happened to you, what could you do a tight 20 on?
Just a reminder for people who don’t seem to get the thinking about learning culture in the workplace. YOU. CAN’T. CHANGE. A. WORKPLACE. LEARNING. CULTURE. JUST. BY. ADDING. A. NEW. LEARNING. PLATFORM. You have to change all of these and a few more: Attitudes, behaviours, groupthink, systems, aims, structures, skills, objectives, skills, strategies, processes, tactics,… Read More A reminder about culture
I don’t have green fingers; everything I grow tends to die through over or under watering. I’m always amazed when something I see re-growth in the Spring from a lifeless Winter. What makes this work is hard pruning, i.e. cutting back to create space for regrowth. Knowing what to cut, when and why is the… Read More Cutting back hard
Over the long Bank Holiday weekend in the UK there’s a tradition for some radio stations to play their ultimate 500 tracks. One channel was doing it over this weekend; I know this only because I was in the car on Friday afternoon and heard it announced on the car radio. The only time I… Read More Listen to the radio
Lost and Desperate 