Be under on illusions, the supply side model of learning and development is declining at an ever quickening rate. People want to choose for themselves, at a time and pace that suits them. For example, the latest data about audio listening in the US has just come out. The demand for ‘linear’ services – over… Read More The age of personalisation
Chatting about personalisation recently and someone told me that listening to a podcast through their headphones was the best experience. Their argument was that this method was an individual encounter with the speakers and more akin to social than consumption. You need to consider this in your design about this when you’re developing support for… Read More Hey, listen to this
I was speaking with some people yesterday and someone mentioned that the word role was difficult to categorise. The people they work with might have a number of roles and, depending on their activity in the day/week/month, might be all, some, or none of them. When we’re building our talent pipelines, if we think only… Read More Roles v Skills
Looking at data around the effectiveness of learning, I’m always drawn to the point where people are asked how they felt the training/learning/event was and are asked to score it on a simple 1-6, or worse, 1-5 scale. How can you say what something is like when you don’t have a comparator? We could be… Read More How’s that?
I’ve noticed recently my keyword soft blocking of marketing emails has been bypassed. For the people who don’t know, you first set up a folder called ‘Unsubscribe’ in your inbox. You then set a rule that any email with ‘subscribe’ or ‘unsubscribe’ in the body should be sent automatically into that folder. By bypassing the… Read More Workaround
Lost and Desperate 