The Purpose Gap For L&D
L&D need to develop and articulate a clear purpose and consistently deliver to build trust and influence
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Five Impactful L&D Ideas on a Shoestring Budget
Here are 5 ideas for learning solutions that can be delivered with little financial or time investment from L&D, the participants or the organisation. Included are some thoughts on each idea and some potential environmental considerations for them to deliver the biggest impact.
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Why Influence is a critical skill for L&D
To be seen as a strategic partner and core to the organisation, requires L&D professionals to influence internal stakeholders whilst having little, if any, positional authority. They need to be able to identify the value added and also shift the perception of being owners of learning to be facilitators of learning.
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Collaboration and Psychological Safety in a Prison Environment
Relying on authority to get things done is a recipe for disaster. Personal credibility and influence are the ways to create collaboration and psychologically safe environments. This skill is becoming more important in L&D, as there is a requirement to get support and collaboration across multiple functions with no positional authority. In this blog, I share part of my story within the UK Prison Service, and how that helped shaped my views and work today.
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Tap Into The Most Unused Asset Within Your Team or Organisation
Why and how to tap into the collective wisdom and creativity of the crowd to solve your biggest challenges. How can you, as a leader, tap into the ideas and thoughts of your team and stakeholders to create new and bolder strategies and innovation?
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Are You Thinking all Wrong?
If you want to be a creative thinker make sure you are doing the right type of thinking at the right time. Stop making the classic mistake of mixing your thinking process which strangles your creativity.
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Getting the Teams Back Together
Teams are returning, and the workplace is not the same as when they left. There are risks of conflict and resentment within the team. As an HR professional or leader, how might you get the team back together? How might you move them from resentment and fear into appreciation and high performance? This blog explores the conversations you could have that will accelerate the transition from a returning team into a high performing team.
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The Happiness Paradox
Happiness is the secret sauce for achieving your goals, it is not the outcome of achieving them. In this blog, we explore this concept and provide a 21-day plan to re-wire your brain to be more optimistic and positive.
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Tips on how to frame a powerful How Might We... question
Using How Might We questions is a powerful way to encourage creative thinking to generate innovative solutions to your most pressing challenges, This blog provides a guide to help you frame your own How MIght We question to achieve the innovation you are looking for.
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Why How "Might We...?" is in our DNA.
Explaining why "How Might We...?" is in our DNA and how it unlocks group creativity to find innovative solutions
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