The track called Slide by the Goo Goo Dolls was one of the first tunes that my son learnt to play on the guitar. He found a set of guitar tabs (pictorial representations of the chords) and taught himself. If someone hadn’t put the tabs online he’d not have learnt it. Now you can watch… Read More Why don’t you slide…
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 read a thoughtful post by Dan Slee last month about why he won’t join a professional body; in his case it was the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. It was quite a telling post as it fell hot on the heels of the CIPD’s HRD 2013 event and I had a few members of my… Read More Why I won’t join the CIPD
I receive somewhere in the region of 400 emails a week trying to get me to buy training. I received one this week that somehow slipped through my junk filter and I was going to delete it but it promised me a very different learning experience so I read through it to find out what… Read More Buy, buy, buy!
Is it me or is there an excessive use of similes in training? My current favourite, following this good piece by Mark Sheppard, is to find the ‘learning is like…’ examples on the web. A quick search found that learning is like: Babysitting – “it interrupts what you are doing and tosses toys at you and needs… Read More Learning is like…