When I wrote 5 podcasts every e-learning professional should listen to in 2019, little did I know that our profession was on the cusp of an existential challenge via a … Continue reading Another 5 podcasts every L&D professional should listen to
The lolly bag is a much-loved tradition in Australia. Usually (but not exclusively) a feature of children’s birthday parties, it’s a take-home gift for each guest containing chocolates, candies and … Continue reading AI lolly bag
Enterprise-wide upskilling programs are dominated by artificial intelligence. In the new corporate arms race, companies are striving to equip their people with the skills they need to exploit this emerging … Continue reading The missing link in AI upskilling
People who know me know that I’m an advocate of skills-based learning strategy. However I find that some of my peers who work in L&D or in broader talent management … Continue reading A 5-stage model for implementing a skills-based learning strategy
Welcome to this year’s instalment of Learning & Development conferences down under and across the ditch. If AI hasn’t yet taken over your need for professional development and desire for … Continue reading L&D conferences in Australia & New Zealand in 2026
Sometime around April I blinked and it’s Christmas season again. Despite the physics-defying acceleration of time, I somehow managed to steal enough of it to publish another round of thought … Continue reading ’Tis
The volume of a mobile device in public is inversely proportional to the owner’s intelligence.
Today, generative AI has an abundance of original content to draw upon. However, as an ever-increasing number of us use it to remix outputs, there must come a tipping point … Continue reading A musing
Last holiday I started a new blog. Which was unexpected (even for myself) because not so long ago I almost gave up on blogging. Now I’m juggling two. But there … Continue reading Stirred, not shaken
The latest research paper to cause a stir among my peers is Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task by … Continue reading Sandwich makers
As a panellist at this year’s L&D Symposium in the Hunter Valley, I was asked: Should L&D practitioners be recast as performance consultants? It’s one of those questions that does … Continue reading The traps of performance consulting
Miley Cyrus’s Wrecking Ball may be an ode to the impact of artificial intelligence on higher education. Since the launch of ChatGPT in particular, traditional means of assessment – such … Continue reading Wrecking ball
It gives me no joy to post this one, but as a practitioner I feel compelled to give it a voice… Several months ago I emailed the lead author of … Continue reading Apathy and ivory
The world of Learning & Development abounds with myths, advertorials, pseudo-religious dogma, echo chambers, contrarianism, counter contrarianism, and assumptions presented as fact. In this chaotic context, how do we practitioners … Continue reading Evidently
Happy new year! And welcome to my 2025 instalment of L&D conferences down under. Last year I included events from the land of the long white cloud, and after receiving … Continue reading L&D conferences in Australia & New Zealand in 2025
This year started not with a bang but a whimper. For the first time ever – through sheer luck, I assure you – my role was made redundant. Not that … Continue reading When life gives you lemons
It’s been a while since I drew a cartoon, so I thought I’d illustrate one of my most popular tweets.
One of my pet hates is closed captions not matching what’s being said. It’s painfully obvious to me that whoever published the video let the robot auto-generate the text – … Continue reading Represent
I watched The Internship again last night, and while it’s cheesy and oh-so-predictable, I appreciated it much more the second time around. The movie depicts a team of interns at … Continue reading People use apps
When LinkedIn informed me that I’d been selected to answer a seemingly random question, it reminded me of being selected by Twitter for a brief survey, or winning a prize … Continue reading TV star