I receive somewhere in the region of 400 emails a week trying to get me to buy training. I received one this week that somehow slipped through my junk filter and I was going to delete it but it promised me a very different learning experience so I read through it to find out what… Read More Buy, buy, buy!
Is it me or is there an excessive use of similes in training? My current favourite, following this good piece by Mark Sheppard, is to find the ‘learning is like…’ examples on the web. A quick search found that learning is like: Babysitting – “it interrupts what you are doing and tosses toys at you and needs… Read More Learning is like…
I was never much good at painting when I was younger. I can always describe the idea of what I wanted to create but couldn’t make the pen, pencil, brush, charcoal etc do what I wanted it to do. In my minds eye at least, it was the next Mona Lisa. In reality it was… Read More Learning by numbers
I wrote a few weeks ago about the manager with the underperforming staff member in a performing team. I suggested looking at 6 principles of influence as suggested by Robert Cialdini. Let’s look at each of them in turn from a LD perspective: Reciprocity I’ve written before about the provision mentality with LD and we see a… Read More Persuade me
I saw this article on Teach Thought last week and thought it was worth consideration from a workplace learning perspective. What ideas do we cling to in LD that don’t do us any favours? Let’s look at the 7 in the Teach Thought article. Physical to Digital One of the saddest sights recently was at… Read More 7 shifts you need to make in your Workplace L&D
Lost and Desperate 