Help your team to realise that learning in the flow of work is where L&D is going and that it’s about the work and not about learning in the way that L&D have traditionally delivered it.
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“We Want Training!”: When Client Expectations Stop L&D From Modernising
L&D have to stop this silliness of working on something because we’ve been asked to – or because it’s the latest thing. We need to invest up front in understanding what’s really going on and relying on data to make decisions and progress.
L&D Is Stuck… And Here’s What We Need To Do About It
It’s a well trodden path… A new L&D function is born – or a new custodian arrives into an existing function – and a review is undertaken of ‘what learning is required’. Induction is developed. […]
Are shorter attention spans hampering your best efforts in L&D?
Despite the headlines, attention spans are not reducing but perhaps tolerance for workplace learning offerings is?
10 Years Of The iPhone And L&D Has Some Learning To Do
Rather than using technology to scale L&D initiatives, what can be learned from the success of the iPhone in finding new ways of helping workers to do what they want to do, better?
What Is L&D For In This Day And Age?
This question was posed to me by Sukh Pabial (@SukhPabial) recently, following a blog he wrote, Adapting, Change and L&D, and a subsequent Twitter exchange. Sukh finished this blog by expressing: “L&D is fundamentally broken […]
The Secret to Learning at the Point-of-Need
*The secret*: ‘Learning’ is rarely (if ever) required at the point-of-need. Instead, answers, support, insights or guidance are more likely to be needed. To make the distinction, ‘learning’ (in the context of work) is often […]
Digital L&D pt 2: Resources Before Courses
As Director of Talent, Learning & OD at Disney, I learned that I wasn’t actually accountable for Learning. I was not charged with embedding, accelerating or transferring learning. At a time of huge shifts in […]
Digital L&D pt 4: What Happens To Classroom Training With ‘Resources-First’?
If you’re supporting workers in the workflow with context-specific resources, based on what your organisation’s internal ‘experts’ know and do, then classroom events take on a very different role to before. But what role should […]
Digital Curation: An Essential Skill-Set For L&D In The 21st Century
“Curation replaces noise with clarity. And it’s the clarity of your choosing; it’s the things that people you trust help you find. We [L&D] need to be the people that organizations trust to help replace […]