I like to try and disrupt where I spot an opportunity. Not for its own sake but to find better, cheaper, quicker, kinder, etc. One thing I’ve been keen to do is to find ways to disrupt the way learning and development people get into the profession and start their early years. There is a… Read More Disrupting
Elon Musk bought Twitter the other day and then received an email saying he had to do a mandatory management course. The man who now owns the company received an automated email telling him he had to complete training within 30 days. I have no opinion on Musk or his purchase. I do, however, think… Read More New Manager Induction
Someone asked me recently if I did ‘that training thing’. As someone outside of the LnD field I thought it’d be good to find out what they thought about learning. They’re a skill worker, i.e. travel to a place to work to carry out a form of service/production, so impacted by the pandemic and lockdown.… Read More That training thing
The training professional will work within a frame; the dots will be numbered and completed in an order. The learning professional will recognise that one frame isn’t enough; there are likely to be multiple frames, multiple shapes and unnumbered dots. There’s nothing wrong by doing training. Don’t call it learning though unless you’re willing to… Read More Framing the solution
Someone asked me the other day if writing a blog post a day means I give lots of stuff away for free. The answer is ‘probably’. If someone wanted to go through all my blog posts and assemble them into a more understandable order then they’re welcome to do so (with attribution of course). I… Read More Freebies
Lost and Desperate 