TV used to be built around exclusivity. Stars, studios, big budgets, broadcast slots, production crews and commissioning decisions. If you wanted to appear on screen, someone had to let you in. Now much of TV is reality-driven. People spend more time watching other people live, compete, react, explain, perform and document themselves in entertaining ways.… Read More Learning Reality
I was chairing a Learning Technologies webinar last week (please come along – they’re good fun) and a question was asked by the presenters: How much of your current learning catalogue do you think gets used? Answers ranged from 10% to 80%. One person didn’t know; someone else said 80%. Others landed at 40% and… Read More Catalogue or Capability
Listening to a podcast the other week, I heard two quotes that work in the L&D space. These were conversations with actors describing their craft. The first was: Ready, Fire, Aim. The world of L&D feels a bit like that sometimes. We fire first, then draw the target around whatever results we can find afterwards.… Read More Two quotes
I wrote yesterday about the Cost Centre Trap and how L&D is missing the mark in many ways. It did feel like a rant, and I realised that we don’t necessarily need more noise but a bit more signal. I saw Gartner has published their 2026 CHRO Future of Work trends and it sharpened my… Read More The Operating Shift
Are L&D leaders doing good work but still being treated as a cost centre? Candice Mitchell asked me this question recently, and the honest answer is often yes. But that is not the most interesting part of the question. The more important question is this: why does the profession keep expecting respect for work that… Read More Cost Centre Trap
Lost and Desperate 