Hacking away

I collect new stories and content through a RSS aggregator and have a specific search term, “hack”. I get about 25 stories a week about hacks. These range from white hat attacks on systems, to cleaning and household tips, to leadership approaches and personal habits. I have a bit of a problem with the word… Read More Hacking away

Time and space

Apparently, people don’t have time and space to learn at work. I don’t think this is fully describing the problem. People are learning through every mistake they make, in every conversation they have, in every process they finish. They’re learning from everything they read, hear and watch. They’re learning from the reactions and emotions they… Read More Time and space

Expectations

People will have a perception of you and this will feed into their expectations of what you are able to do. You can approach this from one of three ways: Choose 1 and you’ll remain a shopkeeper, providing stuff that people have on their shopping list. If that’s your model, then embrace it but don’t… Read More Expectations

Modernist

Just under a year ago I asked what modern learning is and got plenty of thoughtful and informed responses. Here’s a list I’ve been pondering since then: Is your learning ‘modern’?

Serendipity

I wrote about selling earlier this week. I met with a group of L&D people earlier this week at #LnDCoWork. We were talking with Michelle Parry-Slater after a reading from the second edition of her book. We were discussing how L&D is moving/needs to move (delete as appropriate) and I mentioned how we don’t see… Read More Serendipity