I love a football analogy and saw a perfect one last week. The manager of my team – Marti Cifuentes – was asked about employing a left footed centre back in the right back position. The player involved – Jimmy- is tall and not what you consider a typical right back to be. When talking… Read More People development and performance as modern football
As the conference season starts warming up, here’s another gentle poke at some of the things which irk me about learning and development and work in general. Full disclosure – I KNOW all these can apply to me and am happy to be challenged over all of them 🤓. The sage. All knowing, their slides… Read More What grinds my gears – experts
I was really interested in a post from Martin Couzins last week. Talking about L&D’s voice and how it’s heard, he pointed out the following: The learning profession has traditionally suffered with voice – a lack of it. There have been so many reports over the years (a repeated theme in the Towards Maturity reports,… Read More Voice and noise
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
Lost and Desperate 