I posted 50 more big ideas for L&D on Wednesday morning. By the afternoon, the latest research from Stanford and the Hoover Institution landed in my inbox. I wasn’t expecting vindication. But here we are. The Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes has been running monthly since 2020. With over 200,000 observations, the May 2026… Read More Data catch up
Job titles will often tell you what the organisation thinks the work is. I came across a role titled Learning and Development Consultant. That signals something specific: Diagnosis, advisory work, shaping demand, and owning outcomes beyond activity. The job description told a different story. Build content, run the LMS, translate briefs into modules, fix user… Read More Doing what?
I saw an interesting question last week – how do you use AI tools? I’ve been writing about them for a while and am helping organisations understand their use in their learning, so here’s what I do. Firstly, they’re not novelties. I try and avoid using them for facile and superficial elements of my work… Read More Using AI Deliberately
I loved this quote recently: “At an event, if you just stand near me long enough, eventually I’m going to turn around and talk to you, too.” Morgan Burns, founder of the brand agency Purple Unicorn Networking, connecting, and extroversion don’t have to be difficult; just be present with people around you.
Taste is what other people notice when your work has a spine. In L&D, we mistake activity for perspective. We curate playlists, facilitate workshops, and design experiences and then wonder why our work feels forgettable. Here’s what’s missing: conviction about how people actually get better at work. A point of view isn’t “people learn differently”… Read More Point of View