While I was away I realised the problem so many learning teams have with social learning. They want to regulate the learning part when it’s the social part which drives it. But you can’t regulate the social bit without becoming the social police. Learning people then spend more energy on limiting the learning bit in… Read More The problem with social learning
If you were offered a place on a webinar called ‘the importance of strategic finance in your learning function’ would you say attend?* Learning seems to want to market, communicate, and use technology to improve customer service and people experience. We are happy to learn what marketing, comms, IT, customer service and HR do and… Read More The importance of strategic finance in your learning function
People rarely WANT to do an online compliance course so making it brighter, clickier, with bold colours and cartoons just infantilises it more.
If I was being asked to build a learning team from scratch, my criteria would be very different to what they were a few years ago. Some of the skills I’d expect now would include at least the list below. Digital skills – not just competent at Microsoft but across Google, Slack, Discord. Design skills… Read More Wanted
You’ve crafted the content, formed a compelling and creative call to action and prepared an engaging schedule of emails to connect people to your learning offer. There are so many fails in this notice. Notwithstanding the server problems which are causing the issue, a clip art header leading an instruction to ‘please read’ lacks urgency… Read More We’ve communicated
Lost and Desperate 