I used to work for the London Fire Brigade in L&D. I had a great time there and learnt an awful lot about managing speculation, decision making and leadership. I was reminded of my time there by two incidents this week. Firstly I bumped into one of my old colleagues. I literally bumped into them… Read More In a former life
There was a great question on Twitter from Mark Britz the other day: L&D – want to be seen as a separate function of your business? Keep referring to ppl as attendees & learners. Everyone else says employee Why do we use the word learner? Is it to demonstrate our expertise? I had a similar… Read More Who do you work with?
I was reading a discussion on a forum the other day about what content you’d include on a train the trainer face to face session. It says much about how my thinking has changed about workplace learning that my immediate thought was to wonder what you’d include in a classroom setting that you couldn’t help the attendee… Read More Train the what?
I’ve seen some rubbish presentations with PowerPoint. I mean some absolute horrors, almost as bad as some of these. Apparently, lots of us are poor at using Powerpoint. It has become synonymous with dry, lecture style content, wordy slides and crass images. Confession time – how many of you reading this blog post still create slides like… Read More All Present! And correct.
Earlier this week I explained how we’d been looking for inspiration to find an alternative way to deliver our service faced with a significant reduction in resources. I went back through the presentation that Charles Jennings produced for Trainingzone Live. What struck me most that day was the obvious conflict between what I’d always been… Read More Sustain/Disrupt Learn
Lost and Desperate 