The Gallup State of the Global Workplace 2025 report came out recently and there was one headline which stood out to me: Manager engagement has dropped from 30% to 27%. That’s not just a wobble, it’s a trend. Even more telling: younger and female managers are bearing the brunt of the disengagement. The people we… Read More The Manager Problem
One of the principles in our approach to evaluation is to look at an event, learning activity, course, class, etc and, after 10 days, ask ‘so what?’. It’s 10 days since the Learning Technologies Exhibition and Conference and, after a period of reflection, these are the elements I’ve picked out as ‘so what’ moments. From… Read More 10 days
It feels like these is a disconnect between talent and learning. Not so much that they aren’t in the same place and playing the same game, but more the lack of explicit connection, and implicit overlap between the two. I was speaking with someone recently about the shopkeeper to engineer analogy – learning needs to… Read More Talent and Learning
I made an error with yesterday’s post – it didn’t schedule properly and although it appeared on LinkedIn, wasn’t pushed to inboxes or my blog site. This is an ongoing list of errors I’ve made which includes misspellings, image issues, and formatting problems. They haven’t met my high standards and could, arguably, be called performance… Read More Training need?
There were a few stories from presenters at LT UK last week. They all had impact – they’re relational and people can look at them and place themselves into the situation. The ones which resonated with me created a space, and filled it with detail. This means numbers, data, and quantitative information. There were a few… Read More Storytellers
Lost and Desperate 