I decided to do some learning of my own yesterday (8th May) and attended a webinar run by the Learning and Performance Institute. While waiting for things to get going, music was played to the awaiting multutude – a selection of 70’s and 80’s soft rock classics. If only I’d realised it was a portent of what was to follow.
In the spirit of the session – about Learning in the Connected Workplace – I have blogged about it on Trainng Zone, making sense of what I learned and sharing it with others. You can see my take on the ‘new’ shiny world of so-called social learning here.
I seem to be cast in the role of nay-sayer, yet again. Bizarrely, I actually agree with almost all of what was shared during the webinar. But constantly describing things as new, novel or changed – when in fact they are at best an evolution of what has gone before (and in many cases just an adoption of a new lexicon for pretty standard approaches to training) is irritating. Particularly when – like me – you are fast approaching grumpy old man mode.
Some of these approaches weren’t that new when I first encoutered them in the 1980’s – although the media and the channels might have changed.
Unlike the choice of waiting music, it seems.
