Yesterday I wrote about the need to shift to demand-led approaches which respond to the three A’s of learning – Awareness, Acquisition, and Application. Serendipitously, I was reading a chapter six in The Productivity Agenda paper which was released yesterday as part of National Productivity Week in the UK. The chapter is about skills for… Read More Design for productivity
I’ve written four or five times about the need to critically assess our learning support across these three specific lenses: I am constantly reminded how learning and development seems to think that acquisition is the most critical element. Most people, most of the time, don’t need to learn new things; yes it’s a sweeping generalisation… Read More Design for demand
they only have degrees of success. We tried out a Learning Chat Live on Friday and it was either: A complete nightmare. People couldn’t see messages, there was no direction, chat was lost, comments were difficult to see, people were in the wrong place, and some people never got in the event. Or: It was… Read More Pilots don’t fail
I’m pulling together a dozen ideas to produce some workshop material next year about improving evaluation practice in learning and development – keep looking out for it early next year. One area I’ve been focusing on has been bias. There isn’t bias in data per se, just bias in what’s collected, when, how, why, who… Read More Bias in data
I’ve been working with a few organisations recently where an interesting situation is coming up more and more. My approach to development has, for some time now, been about self-determined learning with individuals finding the skills they need to improve their work and perform better. This approach, enabling people the space to learn is a… Read More Professional bodies
Lost and Desperate 