The Others: (Soft Skills Training Edition) Why It’s Always Someone Else’s Fault!
Soft Skills Reloaded: Everyone Wants Leadership Training, No One Wants to Change! If you're in HR or L&D, you know the secret: everyone loves talking about soft skills, but when it's time to actually work on themselves, they disappear faster than the WiFi signal in a meeting room. And tell me, isn't it a bit ...
The Surgery Was Successful: The Patient Died
When Trainings Are Perfect… But Nobody Learned Anything! If you work in Learning & Development, you know the feeling very well: the training was perfectly organized, participants showed up (or at least appeared on Zoom with their cameras off), the slides were great, the trainer enthusiastic, the catering solid. Everything went perfectly. Only… three months ...
Home Alone in the LMS: An L&D Manager’s Adventure on a Deserted Platform
It was a battle that lasted months... Presentations, exhausting business cases, PowerPoints that would make even the most seasoned manager cry. But you did it! You convinced management to invest in the long-awaited Learning Management System (LMS). The system arrived, got installed, shines with innovation… and in the end, nobody uses it! When "Field of ...
Great Expectations, Tiny ‘Next… Next…’ Buttons
The training rollercoaster... If you’re responsible for training in an organization, then you know your job is a never-ending rollercoaster. ▪️ On one side, management imagines corporate training that will transform employees into hyper-efficient productivity machines. ▪️ On the other side, employees dream of training that ends quickly, ideally before their first coffee. And somewhere ...
Both This and That: The L&D Manager Between Two Worlds
Both This and That: The L&D Manager Between Two Worlds If you're an L&D Manager, then you know your job is something between mediator, magician, and… psychologist. On one side, you have senior management dreaming of robot-like employees packed with cutting-edge skills, and on the other side, the employees themselves, who mostly want fewer meetings ...