50 More Big Ideas

In 2014 I wrote my most read blog post. It was a response to a post on TeachThought that set out 50 radical ideas to change education. Back then, the tone was disruption, and the point was to challenge the factory model of L&D and call time on the assumptions that held it in place.… Read More 50 More Big Ideas

No money

I get it – we ARE being asked to do more with less. Budgets are being reviewed and L&D are expected to produce scalable content at lower cost. It’s no wonder people are being attracted to Large Language Models and other AI tools which can produce content at pace. A few weeks ago someone mentioned… Read More No money

Smaller than micro

Micro learning is dead – I saw someone writing about nano learning recently. I’ve decided this is still too large an amount and people want even less so we’re going to go smaller and are delighted to confirm we’re going to be producing pico-learning. Whereas a nano is one billionth of a unit, we’ll be… Read More Smaller than micro

Performance focus

I was at a football match last night. At the end of the game I commented to my son how poorly I thought one player had performed. A mix of bad passes, mistakes and poor decision making contributed to my assessment. A chap walking in front of us suggested the opposite Andy that the player… Read More Performance focus

Over qualified

I was re-reading the CIPD 2023 Good Work Index the other day and noticed a couple of interesting data points. The first one is that almost a third of the people surveyed (over 5 thousand) felt they were overqualified for their job. The second point was that the same proportion of people felt they can… Read More Over qualified