Here’s a question to start with: What is a Skills-First Organisation? The reason for asking is that, with the fascination with reskilling and upskilling and a focus on skills in the workplace, I’ve not seen a really useful explanation for what this means. It appears to be – in some cases – simply as a… Read More Skills, first
I’m doing a really interesting webinar with David Wentworth of Schoox on Thursday of this week, looking at how far we’ve moved from Training to Learning to Development. Some of the questions I’ve been thinking about include: What do you want to know? There are half a dozen topics we can walk through but YOU… Read More The D bit of L&D
The move to people ‘pulling’ the content they want and need to learn and do is pretty much embedded now – at least for the socially engaged L&D people. Yet here I am, every day, pushing content out. Putting bits and pieces of learning thoughts focused on the things I want to write about. I’ve… Read More On demand
Apparently, January is one of the times when there is a job search surge. Like the rush to make New Year’s resolutions and go to the gym, people use the start of the year as a cue for self-improvement. I don’t think we should put a specific date aside to do it, but the people… Read More New Year, New Job
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
Lost and Desperate 