I was talking about mastery with someone recently. It’s one of the three elements in Dan Pink’s Drive, and they asked a very reasonable question. How do you become a master of something? I’m not sure you ever fully do. For many things, mastery isn’t a destination. It’s a direction. It starts with noticing what… Read More On Mastery
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