Good news stories

I saw an excellent post on LinkedIn last week by Joan Keevill. She was right to bemoan the lack of performance consulting in the workplace and the fixation on content from Learning and Development professionals. My own response rests on four facets I’ve written about before: This is what my definition of capability is about;… Read More Good news stories

It’s not you, it’s the job

I’ve mentioned before that we focus too much on ability in learning and development. Our brief is set to the skills where people can develop but we don’t work with businesses to change the nature and design of the job enough to build capacity. Maybe it’s being noticed now. I saw Gartner’s Top 5 HR… Read More It’s not you, it’s the job

Understanding capacity

I have been having conversations for a few weeks now with people and finding the definition of Capability = Capacity + Ability is being seen as more and more relevant. I ask people what capacity they have to perform, i.e. the space to operate differently and I hear back a lot about workloads. I hear… Read More Understanding capacity

Furiously editing

I have a commitment with myself to publish a new blog post every day. This commitment isn’t excessive but takes a small amount of time to produce the post. What I’d forgotten until recently was how much longer I needed to spend on editing. In the last month, almost 1 in 3 posts have had… Read More Furiously editing

Train the what?

I was reading a discussion on a forum the other day about what content you’d include on a train the trainer face to face session. It says much about how my thinking has changed about workplace learning that my immediate thought was to wonder what you’d include in a classroom setting that you couldn’t help the attendee… Read More Train the what?