I used to work for the London Fire Brigade in L&D. I had a great time there and learnt an awful lot about managing speculation, decision making and leadership. I was reminded of my time there by two incidents this week. Firstly I bumped into one of my old colleagues. I literally bumped into them… Read More In a former life
Hi everyone, and welcome to the blog in 2013. Before we start, I’ve a couple of announcements to make and then we can get on with the raffle and the free bar. Firstly, thanks for reading and contributing to this blog, particularly over the last 4 or 5 months – it’s been a real blast… Read More Ice Ice Baby…
I’ve written previously about how we’re modelling our offer. The next stage of that offer falls into learning activities that are formal and disruptive. The most common question I get asked about this blog is why it’s called Lost and Desperate. As I’ve posted before this is called lost and desperate as a reflection of the people… Read More Yes, reinvent the wheel
I’m doing an activity with a team in a few weeks that is partly based on the McKinsey 7S framework. I like the way it can analyse core aspects of change but feel it is a little complex; Staff, Style, and Shared Values can be summarised as Culture. Additionally, there is no direct link between systems and skills… Read More Structuring your approach
I was reading a discussion on a forum the other day about what content you’d include on a train the trainer face to face session. It says much about how my thinking has changed about workplace learning that my immediate thought was to wonder what you’d include in a classroom setting that you couldn’t help the attendee… Read More Train the what?
Lost and Desperate 