Ask an L&D team what a training programme costs, and you will get an answer. Room hire, facilitator day rates, licence fees, and content development time. Some teams will go further: hours away from desks, travel, and internal coordination. That is useful. It is also incomplete in ways that matter. The costs L&D can see… Read More Cost of learning
Employee engagement stats are everywhere right now. Gallup says engaged teams are 23% more productive. while LinkedIn says development opportunities are the #1 driver of engagement. Thirst and Deloitte say clear career paths and reskilling boost it by 37%. L&D takes the hint and builds more personalised paths, more AI‑assisted upskilling, and more micro‑learning to… Read More The wrong target
We talk about data constantly and understand it poorly. Not technically but culturally. Alf Rehn wrote about this recently. Data is “recorded difference fixed for operational use. ” Tree rings, cuneiform tablets, your postcode, your browsing history, the gap where your medical record should be. That last one is the point. The gap is also… Read More Data Is a Decision
Educational Measurement (Fifth Edition), edited by Educational Measurement and produced by the National Council on Measurement in Education, is out at the end of February. It pulls together current research and guidance across the full measurement landscape. Validity. Reliability. Fairness. Interpretation. Consequences. The chapters are written by people who have spent decades arguing about this… Read More Learning, Measured Seriously
Reading a survey from Personio and HR Grapevine last week, this result confirms what many suspect: This single line exposes the L&D profession’s measurement crisis. When leadership rarely asks about learning effectiveness, and HR finds it among the hardest metrics to report on, we’ve created a perfect storm of irrelevance. Nobody’s asking because nobody expects… Read More Performance first