Change is here. I was really interested in Don Taylor’s post the other day where he says: The way we do our work in L&D is changing, too. We are seen – and still largely see ourselves – as the providers of training. There is nothing wrong with training, but it is rapidly becoming a… Read More Change isn’t coming
I was chatting with someone recently and asked them just how much it cost them to attract new buyers for their products. They weren’t completely sure because it is, for them, a sunk cost. Employees have been engaged, products developed, marketing designed and enabled, and advertising bought and paid for. The cost is there and… Read More Cost of business
I was on a bus last week in central London; top deck, front seat, driver’s side, i.e. the BEST seat. We passed a building which was having work done on it. I didn’t recognise it at first since the netting and covering used to protect the public from the four or five storeys of work… Read More Covering up
I see a lot of people in L&D talk about pathways and journeys. It’s a useful analogy since it suggests a starting point, end point, and milestones. Regretfully, it is often represented as a literal path or road. This simplifies the progress into a two dimensional experience. A learning pathway isn’t linear in plan, but… Read More Dimension Learning
I’ve talked about learning is like Mexican food before; it contains the same core ingredients that are added in differing quantities and then folded differently. We cook it differently and present it as something new. Adding 10% to the list price of course. While tacos, burritos, and enchiladas might be the global face of Mexican… Read More More folding
Lost and Desperate 