These turbulent times in organizations along with rapid changes in L&D expectations and practices call for a new way of leading in the learning and development space. Laura Overton and Michelle Ockers offer valuable, well-considered advice in their new book, The L&D Leader, which publishes this month. Their deep L&D experience and refreshing point of [...]
Our work in the L&D field has been regularly reinvigorated and revised by borrowing concepts and practices from other disciplines. We borrowed the Agile Project methodology from our IT colleagues; we conceptualized multi-faceted, multi-channel learning and development by adopting ideas from biological ecosystems; we expanded our understanding of curation by exploring the curator role in [...]
When you have been in the L&D field as long as I have (over 4 decades!), you have seen a thing or two. I’ve lived through more hype and adoption curves (and hype and crash fads) than I care to name. Trends come and go and come back again with a new name. Regardless, these [...]
Reading Chris Hayes’ The Sirens’ Call is a bit like going to a therapy session. This analysis of the nature of attention prompts you to reflect on your day-to-day technology use and your choices. It helps you to see more clearly the primacy of attention and the ways attention and distraction shape your life. It [...]
Even if you haven’t seen Wicked in its musical or movie form, you have likely come across the iconic image of Elphaba taking her stand, complete with hat, cape, and broom – defying gravity. She’s planning to change her world, and we all look up and root for her – with tears and cheers and [...]
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. ~ Ecclesiastes 3:1 In his latest book, Cal Newport advises us to embrace seasonality – to work at a more natural pace. He points out that humans evolved with an innate understanding of seasons – a lived experience of seasons [...]
Many of us hope to be the kind of people that can find and free hidden potential – that we’ll be the one to discover a talent that makes great impact, that we’ll be able to play a role in enabling another’s success story. We often want that for loved-ones in our lives – our [...]
Over the last five months, I’ve been “blogging a book” on the leader’s role in developing people. Early on, I lamented that there wasn’t enough written on the subject, and called dibs on authoring a good book on the subject. In the meantime, I’ve run across Make Talent Your Business by Wendy Axelrod and Jeannie [...]
You know me, I’m all about learning. But in her new book, Julie Winkle Giulioni makes a compelling argument that when employees say they want career growth, there are many possible means to that end – and learning is only one of them. Giulioni’s conceptualization of the dimensions of career development implies that we need [...]
Last week, I invested part of my 3214th week on this planet in reading 4000 Weeks: Time management for mortals, by Oliver Burkeman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021). 4000 weeks is roughly the amount of time we have in our lives if we live to be 80 years old.^ Yet not a single moment of [...]