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Lost and Desperate

Random ramblings that might, or might not, relate to training, learning, development, and management

999

999 is the emergency number for the UK. It’s also the number of this blog posts on my blog – some 999 blog posts have, over a dozen years or so, been written, edited, and published. It feels like it’s important somehow. I don’t quite know why though. Tomorrow we enter a new millennium of… Read More 999

February 16, 2022February 16, 2022 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

Test yourself

I missed the story earlier in the year about ByteDance, the Chinese internet company which owns TikTok, eliminated its Talent Development team in December. Thanks to Kate Graham for reminding me about it. If you work in Learning you need to be afraid. A look at some of the choice phrases the company used to… Read More Test yourself

February 15, 2022February 16, 2022 andrewjacobslnd1 Comment

Optimal learnplace

I saw an article from the Harvard Business Review last week trying to frame the argument around what the optimal workplace would look like. Do we ask what the optimal learnplace might be? And wouldn’t the answer be ‘it depends’?

February 14, 2022February 10, 2022 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

Sound and vision

I got a couple of things wrong over the last few days. These included scheduling blog posts at the wrong time and recording audio with the wrong microphone. They’re not fatal errors, and easily fixed. What I don’t do is pretend they haven’t happened. Showing my working matters to me for a few reasons. Firstly,… Read More Sound and vision

February 11, 2022February 7, 2022 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

Pictures

Pictures paint a thousand words which is why I choose images to go on my blog posts on my website. When I copy those posts to LinkedIn I never bother with the images yet the posts on LinkedIn get read many more times. Do images really matter if it’s a short piece of content?

February 10, 2022February 4, 2022 andrewjacobslndLeave a comment

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