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15
Feb
Enter The Regressor
This month, I’m taking a look at how we combat the Regressor - an insidious imp who whispers in the ears of your key L&D stakeholders and convinces them to keep their learning programmes as cheap, safe, and dull as possible.
6 min read
13
Feb
Fork the System: Programming Was Women’s Work Until Men Realized It Paid Well
We are often told that women left programming because they were not interested, were not good at math, or simply chose other careers. That story is convenient, but it is not true.
5 min read
12
Feb
Critical Thinking Skills To The Rescue!
Over the last year there has been a clamour for ‘critical thinking’ skills. As someone who has both taught and assessed these, and who has a business devoted to ‘Empowering human thinking”, you might think I’d leap on that bandwagon. But I’m reluctant to do so.
5 min read
09
Feb
Stop Ignoring The Science
We’re humans. Learning is what we do. From the moment we’re born, we’re wired to learn. Babies don’t take a course in “learning how to learn.” They just do it. And yet, somewhere between childhood curiosity and corporate life, we stopped upgrading our ability to learn - better.
4 min read
08
Feb
When The Crystal Ball Goes Dark
It happened one summer morning. The email arrived without ceremony, no meeting, no phone call, just a subject line that would change everything. I opened the email and froze. My hands went cold, followed by a full-blown panic attack, and then the tears came.
4 min read