Choosing a Learning Technology Learning and performance in work are becoming so integrated it’s hard to know what a ‘learning technology is’ any more. I’ve been thinking about how I settled on the one that I’m using to take The Smart Work Company into the next phase, but not before I made several mistakes. I’m not […]
Social learning
Turning content into resources
You know when you hear someone say something that makes a light bulb go on over your head? I had that experience yesterday. The person I was talking to mentioned in passing the difference between content and resources. Now this might be blindingly obvious to you but in the context of the conversation we were […]
Talking about learning – can you feel it?
This post is a reflection on how our attitude to learning is profoundly influenced by our emotions, and how they both prevent and fire-up up our hunger to know and do things. This might seem insultingly obvious but I do think it’s worth keep reminding ourselves, considering that a) many of us have a “yearning for […]
Learning’s a social process
This short post is about how new practices spread from person to person. High-performance work systems and effective ways of organising are more likely than not to lead to outcomes that are good for workforces, customers and businesses. But so much of this research and good practice is overlooked in practice – and this frustrates […]