Read the small print
Often you are limited to getting your career history and relevance for a job onto 2 sides of A4. Knowing what to leave out can be tough and it’s easy to go onto 3 or 4 sides. Easier to do if you make the text size 8.
Join our community
Please stop sending me requests describing your new disruptive innovation with these 4 statements: We’ve got this technology you’ll be interested in. We’ve got these members who you might know. We talk about this stuff that we know you know. We’re different to every other community you’re a member of. I usually ask the following… Read More Join our community
The Ultimate Awkward Question
I saw the TUAQ for digital services in government. The TUAQ that Learning and Development need to ask is ‘How much do you really want your business to change?’ It’s not just about people, skills, behaviours or attitudes. Pull one of those levers you’re going to impact strategy, aims, culture, processes, systems, relationships and performance.… Read More The Ultimate Awkward Question
Where are the women?
Manel: a panel of experts or participants, for example on a TV quiz show or at a conference, that consists of men only. I saw this tweet the other day: Just what we need, another predominately white manel selling their books via an event. Since I have an interest in the opportunities for women speakers,… Read More Where are the women?
Fail to prepare
If you STILL need to be told what to do to pivot your learning function, have a look at this by the RSA. In a work context, recognising learning wherever it happens means not counting just your classes. Learning is the work. The counting should be the performance improvement. Building relationships to make learning connected,… Read More Fail to prepare
Lost and Desperate 