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Lost and Desperate

Random ramblings that might, or might not, relate to training, learning, development, and management

Category: Measurement

Trend setting

For the last four and a half years we have produced a weekly list where we thank people who have influenced our thinking, work, and activity. It’s a simple activity; recognising the people who have engaged shows we’re taking note and publicly expressing appreciation. What I didn’t realise was how much of a ‘thing’ it… Read More Trend setting

March 21, 2025March 19, 2025 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

Exponents

I’ve spoken about the Power of 10 before; it’s an approach to looking at performance 10 days, weeks, and months after a learning intervention to begin to recognise where patterns are forming and how learning impacts. I’m delighted to have the opportunity to speak again about this in April this year with Watershed. We’ll be… Read More Exponents

March 3, 2025February 25, 2025 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

What’s hot?

Every year Don Taylor’s L&D Global Sentiment Survey polls L&D professionals to gauge which trends and topics they believe will be “hot” in the coming year. It has since become a widely recognised benchmark for global L&D sentiment. This year, over 3,000 people from 90+ countries took part in the survey. They come from various… Read More What’s hot?

February 21, 2025February 19, 2025 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

Knowledge transferred

Earlier in the week I wrote about how I was struggling with the term knowledge transfer. The post was recognised with loads of replies that have prompted further thinking from me. Firstly, we the replies confirmed we don’t appear to have a consistent definition of what we mean by the term. If we can’t describe… Read More Knowledge transferred

February 7, 2025February 6, 2025 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

Vanity metrics

As part of the work I’m doing on Proving Impact, I’m having lots of conversations with people in lots of organisations about the data they collect. One thing that pretty much everyone has is a post event evaluation form. The name varies but they are, in almost all cases, a happy sheet. They collect great… Read More Vanity metrics

January 29, 2025January 28, 2025 andrewjacobslnd2 Comments

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