I wrote the other day about how I was going to be presenting to a group of other L&D professionals; we really engaged with the group and I think it went well (see above). There were 3 key themes we wanted to address. Changing the trainer mindset We were incredibly lucky to have Barry Sampson… Read More Reflecting on a presentation
This week I’ll be co-facilitating a session on this subject with the fabulous Naureen Wilson for Learning Pool. Our audience is a group of other L&D practitioners and the crux of the session is to highlight how (and why) we need to be supporting learners in pulling learning, rather than us in L&D constantly pushing content. I’m really looking forward to… Read More Changing the Learner Mindset
A good track on their best album by my favourite band (Brixton 10 June 2009 will live long in the memory) and entirely appropriate this week for two reasons. Reason 1 It’s good news – I have had Google Chrome installed on my work PC. i was ridiculously excited by this earlier in the… Read More A Small Victory
New year, new learning strategy to come. I’ll post about that later this year but thought the story of a quick 1-1 coaching activity this week might be of interest. A manager mentioned to me that they were struggling with time management activities (remember this post) and asked if I had any resources I could let them… Read More You can’t do it all
I began putting this post together last week after I’d had a conversation with a colleague elsewhere in the organisation. They were bemoaning the fact that our work PCs still used IE6 (stop laughing at the back) when there was Firefox, Chrome, even IE9 to use in its place. So, I work for an organisation… Read More Innovation has nothing to do with how many dollars you have
Lost and Desperate 