I heard a term from Dr David Love at the Autumn Forum that I rather liked. Faux work. It’s used to describe people using AI to correspond with each other, producing emails, reports and responses that give the appearance of work without necessarily achieving very much. Then I read a piece last week by Alf… Read More Meat Proxy, Faux Work
Almost five years ago I completed a speed awareness course and wrote about it. Last week I had to do another one. My first post was positive; I thought facilitating that course must be one of the tougher jobs in learning. Ten people who would have preferred not to be there were brought together because… Read More Less speed, less haste
Seth Godin recently asked: why open a bookshop when people already have libraries, Amazon, and booksellers they trust? We build infrastructure because it feels like progress. Because we can point to it. Because it proves we’re serious. But the infrastructure itself isn’t the asset. The trust and attention you earn is the asset. In L&D,… Read More The Bookshop Problem
I made an error with yesterday’s post – it didn’t schedule properly and although it appeared on LinkedIn, wasn’t pushed to inboxes or my blog site. This is an ongoing list of errors I’ve made which includes misspellings, image issues, and formatting problems. They haven’t met my high standards and could, arguably, be called performance… Read More Training need?
There is an “Engagement Meter” in Adobe Connect which you can use to test the “engagement” of people in the session. It’s not, of course measuring anything like that; it’s counting how many people have the Adobe window active and then offering a percentage based on the number of people, the time they’ve been there,… Read More Engagement meters