There was a superb paper produced this week which drew on a 2024 survey of more than 9,000 workers across nine countries. In it, it finds that more workers report potential benefits from new technologies like robots and AI for their safety and comfort at work, their pay, and their autonomy on the job, than… Read More AI vs employee
There seems to be a lack of self-awareness in the LinkedIn marketing world. Finding my email and sending me a cold message about how you will help me generate leads isn’t going to land well. If that’s the approach you’re recommending, it will annoy more people than it gains. If that’s not the approach you… Read More Self-aware
The carrot for learning shouldn’t be a certificate, accreditation, or approval. The stick for learning shouldn’t be mandated completion or 100% pass marks. Help people understand their own motivations for wanting to learn and their limits which will stop them starting or continuing. Blunt tools do no favours for participants, or the people wielding them.
Jargon has become an unfortunate staple in L&D. Acronyms are thrown around with reckless abandon – ROI, LMS, etc., Amidst the three-letter acronyms, a new breed of buzzwords has emerged, each weirder than the last. I thought I’d come up with some more trendy lingo and glib phrases. Let’s just run them up the flagpole… Read More What we need is more jargon
Just telling people about how they can do their work better doesn’t necessarily mean they either a) want to know about it, b) hear about it, or c) want to change the way they do it. It’s a recurrent conversation in the world of learning where we are still pushing, selling from what a supply.… Read More A need doesn’t mean a demand
Lost and Desperate 