People who know about innovation in learning know what needs to be said. People who don’t know about innovation in learning are lost in a sea of competing views. There are silos between providers and practitioners. It feels like the inability of the industry to paint a compelling portrait of what innovation looks like has… Read More Learning innovation is trapped in an echo chamber
I caught Will Self 0on the radio the other day commenting on a creative writing MA. He used an interesting phrase when describing our connected world, that we’ve turned some learning into a giant quilting exercise where people comment on each other’s content. If you’re creating a quilt of knowledge or experience, that’s great, but… Read More Mutuality
Some time ago I wrote about barriers to innovation and had some focused discussions, particularly offline, with people who agreed with the sentiment but felt that the status quo of how L&D was set up would slow, limit, and even prevent innovation. 5 years later, we need to ask if there is anything limiting innovation… Read More If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old
I saw a tweet by Nick Ribeiro the other day which prompted this blog post. I realised that I’ve been saying moving from shopkeeper to engineer this for a few years but haven’t necessarily explained it fully or my thinking behind it. I first thought about the relationship between retail and learning a few years… Read More Shopkeeper to Engineer
I wrote last time about the session which I was going to run at the CIPD L&D Show in Olympia. I admitted that I wasn’t sure how it would run and only had the first 30-40 minutes clear in my head. So I dove into the topic and asked a ton of questions of the… Read More Mirror mirror, on the wall
Lost and Desperate 