I was looking through a report which had surveyed 2,100 professionals within the marketing, creative, technology, beauty, fashion, and retail sectors across the US, Canada, and the UK. Their four main barriers the respondents reported which limited upskilling were: If you work in the learning function creating harder, better, faster, stronger, isn’t necessarily going to… Read More Barriers to upskilling
I’ve been hearing more noise recently about returning to the office. The pressure being put on people to return to the workplace is increasing significantly, although the research tells us return to office mandates impact performance negatively and demotivate employees. I’m hearing lots of organisations selling it as people wanting to get back together for… Read More The return
I ask people this a lot and hear regularly about the intention to do so but less of the actions which make it happen. I’ve said before many times that the way we work has changed and workplace learning needs to reflect these changes. That means adopting modern learning practices and recognising we need to… Read More Are you proving impact?
Easy question:On a scale from 0 to 10, how good is your learning and development function right now? Tougher question:What do you need to move up that scale by one point? Toughest question:Why don’t you?
When I worked in local government, we were faced with some really tough financial decisions and these fed through to the learning function. We decided to withdraw refreshments from face to face courses and the money saved was the equivalent of 0.6 FTE. What was the value we created by taking refreshments away? The downside… Read More True value
Lost and Desperate 