Despite all the talk of a fresh political landscape and the dawning of a new era of government by coalition, here we are again with a majority government. And perhaps it’s a measure of how little things really change in British politics that in the run up to this month’s General Election the Prime Minister […]
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Creating Shared Value Through Learning and Development
ONS stats released last week reveal that the number of British 16-24 year olds in full-time education has more than doubled since 1984. (ONS March 2014). At the same time employers continue to bemoan the lack of work-readiness of those young people emerging from the formal education system. And most of them take the view […]
Experiential Learning: Six Key Questions to Test for Authenticity and Impact
When the great Pete Seeger died last month the world lost a truly authentic individual. Seeger combined music and activism in a way that never compromised his core principles. Not only that, but he had a great way with words. When asked the difference between education and […]
Experiential Learning & the Slimy Snot-Fish
I was fascinated to read about the unknown species of giant jellyfish, cutely dubbed the snot-fish, which washed up in Tasmania last week. Looking at pictures of the poor, stranded thing I wondered whether, in feeling pity for it, I was guilty of anthropomorphosis . A quick inspection reveals […]
Breaking Bad Assumptions About Learning & Development
During 2013 our office became collectively addicted to Breaking Bad. For those not hooked the drama, streamed by Netflix, revolves around a terminally ill chemistry teacher named Walter White. Motivated by the urge to provide for his son and wife, White reinvents himself as a market-leading producer of crystal meth operating under the nom-de-guerre of […]
Leaders Need to Talk the Talk!
Finally it’s happening. You’re on stage. Under the lights. Staring out into the audience. A conference of hundreds. A sea of faces, each focused on you, hungry for your insights, primed for your wisdom. You smile and your gaze drops to the autocue. It’s dead. The carefully crafted […]
The Challenges and Joys of Jargon
Looking over my 8 year-old son’s schoolbooks the other day I came across a poem he had written. It contained the line “The peaceful sun wrapped its arms around the unpeaceful clouds. ” His teacher had circled “unpeaceful” and in the margin written “not a real word.” The annotation […]
L&D and CR: Why They Need to Collaborate
Working on a recent assignment for a corporate client refreshed my thinking about the roles and responsibilities PLCs may have or may soon come to have in respect of an extended stakeholder constituency. It also made me reflect further on the place of learning and development in this. […]
Businesses Must Adapt to Shifting Workplace Expectations
Despite the billions spent by the Coalition and the previous government on school building programmes, research published this month by the British Educational Suppliers Association (Besa) has found that only 22% of English secondary schools have wi-fi access in most or all of their classrooms. Commenting on the BBC website Valerie Thompson, the CEO of […]
Hands Up if You’ve Had Enough of Volunteering
Research to be published this spring by The Centre for Corporate Citizenship, Boston, will reveal high levels of job satisfaction among corporate responsibility professionals. No surprise there, you might say. After all, in contrast to finance and HR professionals, so often perceived, especially in straitened times, as bearers of […]