This week’s Learning & Development Network ‘Friday Funny’ is titled ‘Inspired at 2pm, forgotten at 2:05pm’. You know this person. At 1:59pm he’s buzzing. He just finished your workshop. New framework, great discussion, a notebook full of ideas. He walks out of the Training Room with his arms in the air. At 2:05pm he’s standing…
This week’s Learning & Development Network ‘Friday Funny’ is titled ‘Online Learning’. This is the perfect visual metaphor for what happens when we take learning jargon literally but not humanly. Arthur is technically doing online learning — he’s on a line, reading “The Art of Focus” — but he’s completely missed the point, and he’s dangerously unsupported.…
This week’s Learning & Development Network ‘Friday Funny’ is titled ‘Checkbox Checking’. A satire on validity. Easy-to-mark MCQs can create a false sense of competence and reduce learning to compliance theatre. For L&D, it forces us to ask: are we assessing recall when the job requires judgement? Move up Bloom’s taxonomy — from recognizing the…
This is about signalling versus substance, and how organisational culture rewards the appearance of learning. A full bookshelf is a great impression management tool, but without application it becomes performative L&D. For experts, it’s a culture audit: do we promote people who talk about leadership models, or who demonstrate them? How do we make genuine…
This cartoon skewers cognitive overload and trainer-centric design. When learners are fleeing through windows and hiding in cupboards, it’s a signal that duration has been mistaken for depth. For L&D experts, it’s a prompt to audit for extraneous load — how much of those 150 slides is actually needed for performance? Consider Mayer’s coherence principle,…
We’ve all been in that room – the trainer has done their best to keep it tight with just the key points, but the learners have one eye on the clock because their boss needs them back at their desks ASAP. It perfectly captures the real pressure L&D faces between covering the content and respecting…
This week’s Learning & Development Network ‘Friday Funny’ is titled ‘Death by PowerPoint’. We’ve all been there; a workshop that’s basically a lecture delivered via a thousand slides. Slides can, of course, be a really helpful tool in training workshop, but need to be used sparingly if you want to keep your audience engaged! Our…
Why did the PowerPoint go to therapy? There were too many slides to it’s personality! If you have any Learning & Development related jokes you’d like to share (especially if they’re better than ours!), please send them to AustralianLDN@yahoo.com.au. Our Sponsors: The Australian Learning & Development Network’s events and resources are available free of charge…
Why did the workshop participant bring a ladder to class? To reach the higher levels of understanding! If you have any Learning & Development related jokes you’d like to share (especially if they’re better than ours!), please send them to AustralianLDN@yahoo.com.au. Our Sponsors: The Australian Learning & Development Network’s events and resources are available free…
Why was the computer so good at training? It had a lot of knowledge bytes! If you have any Learning & Development related jokes you’d like to share (especially if they’re better than ours!), please send them to AustralianLDN@yahoo.com.au. Our Sponsors: The Australian Learning & Development Network’s events and resources are available free of chargeto…
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