I posted yesterday about the shift from studio to system in L&D. That post diagnosed the problem; this post attempts to respond to it. If the organisation is already producing learning without you, the answer is not to compete with it, ignore it or drag everything back into the formal offer. The answer is to… Read More Learning Reality: Six Shifts from Studio to System
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