Is it me or is there an excessive use of similes in training? My current favourite, following this good piece by Mark Sheppard, is to find the ‘learning is like…’ examples on the web. A quick search found that learning is like: Babysitting – “it interrupts what you are doing and tosses toys at you and needs… Read More Learning is like…
I saw this article on Teach Thought last week and thought it was worth consideration from a workplace learning perspective. What ideas do we cling to in LD that don’t do us any favours? Let’s look at the 7 in the Teach Thought article. Physical to Digital One of the saddest sights recently was at… Read More 7 shifts you need to make in your Workplace L&D
This is the last piece in the series of posts about how we’re transforming our learning function. My apologies for the delay in getting it out – it fell off my radar. To bring you up to speed, we’re attempting a new way of creating L&D support at my workplace, using a format that we’ve developed over… Read More Improve your learning experiences
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. Last time I wrote about a model that we’d been working on as we searched for a different way to do what we do. As Napoleon Hill… Read More Starting point
Earlier this week I explained how we’d been looking for inspiration to find an alternative way to deliver our service faced with a significant reduction in resources. I went back through the presentation that Charles Jennings produced for Trainingzone Live. What struck me most that day was the obvious conflict between what I’d always been… Read More Sustain/Disrupt Learn
Lost and Desperate 