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Not a cat

E-Learning Provocateur

My favourite episode of Blackadder is the one in which Baldrick burns the manuscript of Dr Samuel Johnson’s dictionary. As Edmund scrambles to re-write the tome, Baldrick contributes a definition of “dog”: Not a cat. While his definition is comically inadequate, it’s also unassailably accurate. Indeed a dog is not a cat; so if you understand what a cat is, the contrast will help you understand what a dog is.

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Everything, everywhere, all at once

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The title of this blog post is borrowed from Deloitte’s summary of the priorities of C-suite executives (which in turn is borrowed from the Daniels ). Why they chose the phrase to represent their findings is clear: “When asked to choose their focus areas among the 10 core business priorities broadly categorized across growth, purpose, people, process, and technology, more than 60 percent of the executives surveyed chose seven or more priorities, and 25 percent chose all 10.” Th

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L&D conferences in Australia in 2023

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Has our conference attendance rate returned to pre-pandemic levels? I’m not sure. I attended several last year, and while there seemed to be plenty of attendees at each one, most combined L&D with HR to bump up the numbers. Which is fine, given they’re allied professions, so long as the content pitched to the latter doesn’t squeeze out the value sought by the former.

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Tree climbers

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I respect Malcolm Gladwell as a thinker, but I’m disappointed by his Grand Unified Theory for fixing higher education that he espouses in an episode of the Revisionist History podcast titled The Tortoise and the Hare. I won’t spoil the surprise for those who haven’t yet heard it, but suffice to say it’s born out of his experience in taking the hallowed Law School Admission Test (LSAT).

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The duality of Agile

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The term “Agile” means different things to different people. To some it’s the powerhouse of efficiency and productivity; whereas to others it’s a vague label at best, or an empty buzzword at worst. And I can see why the conflict arises: because two forms of agile exist – one with a small “a”, the other with a big “A” Small “a” agile.

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Game changer

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As a blogger, I’ve been struggling. Historically it has been a rewarding pastime for me – both personally and career wise – but it has also been challenging. It’s time consuming, it requires large doses of vulnerability, and on occasion the reaction from my fellow “professionals” has been downright unprofessional. Combine that with some private matters and a dwindling readership, I’ve been wondering if it’s worth it any more.

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Supercharge your digital training

E-Learning Provocateur

We’ve all been there. The organisation invests an obscene amount of money in a course library, and after much fanfare and an initial spike of excitement, activity steadily dwindles until the platform resembles a ghost town vacated by all but the most enthusiastic of fans. Similar problems with learner engagement beset other forms of digital training too; whether it’s the famously low completions rates of MOOCs, or the constant chasing up of laggards who are yet to complete their comp

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