I like Faith No More. They’re a great band and their version of the Commodores classic is a masterclass in how to create a cover version. It’s close enough to the original to sound familiar but different enough to distinguish itself. My excuse for shoehorning my favourite band into yet another post is purely because… Read More Easy like Sunday morning
I wrote a few weeks ago about the manager with the underperforming staff member in a performing team. I suggested looking at 6 principles of influence as suggested by Robert Cialdini. Let’s look at each of them in turn from a LD perspective: Reciprocity I’ve written before about the provision mentality with LD and we see a… Read More Persuade me
I saw this article on Teach Thought last week and thought it was worth consideration from a workplace learning perspective. What ideas do we cling to in LD that don’t do us any favours? Let’s look at the 7 in the Teach Thought article. Physical to Digital One of the saddest sights recently was at… Read More 7 shifts you need to make in your Workplace L&D
I managed to get sucked into a conversation on Twitter the other day (how does that keep happening?). It had started with a conversation about curation and had meandered, as all the best Twitter conversations do, onto whether a motivated employee will wait for L&D to provide curated content. My belief is that the motivated… Read More Don’t want to; Can’t make me!
I used to work for the London Fire Brigade in L&D. I had a great time there and learnt an awful lot about managing speculation, decision making and leadership. I was reminded of my time there by two incidents this week. Firstly I bumped into one of my old colleagues. I literally bumped into them… Read More In a former life