I ran a contentjam session last week for a group of local government LD people. There was some brilliant output, but as I was talking through what we do I still found some ‘old fashioned’ thinking. My favourite is to ask who has management induction training for new to the organisation managers; these people have… Read More Development ≠ Training
This is the last piece in the series of posts about how we’re transforming our learning function. My apologies for the delay in getting it out – it fell off my radar. To bring you up to speed, we’re attempting a new way of creating L&D support at my workplace, using a format that we’ve developed over… Read More Improve your learning experiences
I managed to get sucked into a conversation on Twitter the other day (how does that keep happening?). It had started with a conversation about curation and had meandered, as all the best Twitter conversations do, onto whether a motivated employee will wait for L&D to provide curated content. My belief is that the motivated… Read More Don’t want to; Can’t make me!
This is a swift post. It has pace and speed. It is hasty; a quick fix. We’re often asked to help people learn quickly but do we consider cadence? We are handed a deadline but do we break down the steps : into a rate that people want? into the rate we want? into the… Read More Pace of learning
I’ve read a few pieces this week that are reaffirming my thoughts that L&D has to change. Firstly, this article by Barry Sampson at Onlignment is great as it stresses the need for L&D to partner up with business. I saw Barry present at an event last year and our thoughts are in parallel –… Read More Change or die
Lost and Desperate 