Learning is often asked to focus on on a thing which isn’t working. Stop and zoom out. How is this thing connected? What are the relationships it has with other parts of the business, processes, and activity. Zoom out again. How will a lever moved here, create a change elsewhere? What effects are you going… Read More Zooming out
I’ve just read a piece about how AI tools are supporting volume recruitment. These tools can evaluate candidate submissions and identify the high scorers really quickly to allow you to move onto the next phase of the process. This is people as data. There is no nuance. The people who game the system will get… Read More Pause and think
A friend of mine is a grandparent of a 3-year old. They were playing ‘shop’ the other day and at the point when they came to the sale my friend got confused. Rather than getting coins out their purse, their grand child got their toy mobile out, tapped the till and made a beep noise.… Read More 3 years is a long time
I’ve been looking at resources which organisations provide as part of their induction and onboarding processes. Thank you to the people who sent them to me – very much appreciated. Everything seems to come in the following forms: The topics are also any permutation of the fourteen or so below: If you’ve taken time to… Read More More stuff but different
Someone commented to me recently how they didn’t feel they had networks or communities to learn with. In a relatively large organisation, they were part of many teams and groups but they didn’t feel they were learning. We talked this through and reframed the question to find out the networks and communities they learnt from.… Read More Building relationships to learn
Lost and Desperate 