I was never much good at painting when I was younger. I can always describe the idea of what I wanted to create but couldn’t make the pen, pencil, brush, charcoal etc do what I wanted it to do. In my minds eye at least, it was the next Mona Lisa. In reality it was… Read More Learning by numbers
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 ran a contentjam session last week for a group of local government LD people. There was some brilliant output, but as I was talking through what we do I still found some ‘old fashioned’ thinking. My favourite is to ask who has management induction training for new to the organisation managers; these people have… Read More Development ≠ Training
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!
This is a swift post. It has pace and speed. It is hasty; a quick fix. We’re often asked to help people learn quickly but do we consider cadence? We are handed a deadline but do we break down the steps : into a rate that people want? into the rate we want? into the… Read More Pace of learning
Lost and Desperate 