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.…
If the leadership skills your top executives are known for have zero overlap with what your teams actually say they value — as global research suggests — whose leadership development plan is really working? It’s tempting to frame this topic as “which leadership skills will AI kill off” — but the more accurate, and more…
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…
For years, leadership development followed a familiar shape: identify high-potential employees, send them to a program, hope it sticks. That model is under real pressure — and the emerging thinking on what replaces it is worth paying attention to. From pipeline to pool. The traditional “leadership pipeline” assumed a fairly predictable, linear path into management.…
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…
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