I wrote a few weeks ago about the manager with the underperforming staff member in a performing team. I suggested looking at 6 principles of influence as suggested by Robert Cialdini. Let’s look at each of them in turn from a LD perspective: Reciprocity I’ve written before about the provision mentality with LD and we see a… Read More Persuade me
I saw this article on Teach Thought last week and thought it was worth consideration from a workplace learning perspective. What ideas do we cling to in LD that don’t do us any favours? Let’s look at the 7 in the Teach Thought article. Physical to Digital One of the saddest sights recently was at… Read More 7 shifts you need to make in your Workplace L&D
I ran a contentjam session last week for a group of local government LD people. There was some brilliant output, but as I was talking through what we do I still found some ‘old fashioned’ thinking. My favourite is to ask who has management induction training for new to the organisation managers; these people have… Read More Development ≠ Training
This is the last piece in the series of posts about how we’re transforming our learning function. My apologies for the delay in getting it out – it fell off my radar. To bring you up to speed, we’re attempting a new way of creating L&D support at my workplace, using a format that we’ve developed over… Read More Improve your learning experiences
I managed to get sucked into a conversation on Twitter the other day (how does that keep happening?). It had started with a conversation about curation and had meandered, as all the best Twitter conversations do, onto whether a motivated employee will wait for L&D to provide curated content. My belief is that the motivated… Read More Don’t want to; Can’t make me!
Lost and Desperate 