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Change or die
I’ve read a few pieces this week that are reaffirming my thoughts that L&D has to change. Firstly, this article by Barry Sampson at Onlignment is great as it stresses […]
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6 common uses of technology
So, you know when you have an idea for a post and then TeachThought do it. And then Rob Hubbard does it. That. But I’m doing it anyway, especially as […]
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Pace of learning
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 […]
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Don’t want to; Can’t make me!
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 […]
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Development ≠ Training
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 […]
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7 shifts you need to make in your Workplace L&D
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 […]
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Learning by numbers
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, […]
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Learning is like…
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 […]
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Buy, buy, buy!
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 […]
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Why I won’t join the CIPD
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 […]
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Easy like Sunday morning
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 […]
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Why don’t you slide…
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 […]
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Nothing to see here
This blog post doesn’t exist. It wasn’t written and timed to be published. It wasn’t made public, categorised or tagged. The picture above exists but isn’t stored and published as […]
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Practice makes perfect
I saw some brilliant football the other week. Being a QPR fan means this doesn’t happen often; the football I’m referring to was my son’s team, whilst in a training […]
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What comes first…chicken or egg?
I had a new experience the other week, I went to the Nando’s restaurant chain for the first time. I checked their website to see how to order in their […]
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Wipe Out
One of the benefits of being part of a wider L&D community is the opportunity to talk through different aspects of our profession with so many different people. I had […]
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What has the business ever done for us?
The interior of a training room. A darkened room with a very conspiratorial atmosphere. Learning and development people are seated around a number of tables. Francis is standing by a flipchart,...
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Zombie L an D
It all started in a quiet suburban street on a typical Monday evening. My wife was telling me about a course she had been on that day. An education consultant who […]
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Advancing L and D
This post is being published as I’m speaking at the CIPD Annual Conference under the title “Advancing L&D to Create the Learning Practitioners of the Future”. It’s a long title which […]
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It ain’t what they call you…
…it’s what you answer to. WC Fields Manager sits at their desk wearing a Leader’s hat, ‘Send for Training right away’, I want to have a chat. Training attends […]
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