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 ...
Corporate Psycho: Stress, KPIs & Sadistic Productivity
As a Training Manager, you've seen it all. From boring compliance training to leadership’s obsession with “productive hours.” But now you’re faced with a mission harder than convincing a CEO to watch an entire e-learning module: persuading leadership that burnout is real and that training can actually fix it! 1 “Burnout Is NOT a Myth ...
New Sheriff (L&D) in Town: Training Reloaded
Transitioning into a New Organization as an L&D Manager… congratulations! So you’ve arrived in the city (or rather, the organization) proudly wearing the badge of the new Learning & Development Manager. But instead of villains, the landscape you encounter is filled with outdated training methods, endless PowerPoints, and managers who think training is simply “something ...
Boss Level Challenge: The Man Who Knew It All (Or So He Thought)
If you work in Learning & Development, then you’ve surely encountered the ultimate Boss Level Challenge: the Manager who knows everything. He’s the one who hears the word “training” and checks his watch with the same enthusiasm as waiting for water to boil. For him, training is a waste of time because—according to himself—he already ...
Training Club – HR Team VS Managers
HR VS Managers ... If you work in employee training, you know very well that it’s not just a job. It’s a mission. And if there’s an enemy more dangerous than the classic “I don’t have time,” it’s the manager who doesn’t want their people to “waste time” on training. Welcome, then, to the "Training ...
LMS: Mission Impossible
Do you ever feel like Tom Cruise on a dangerous “LMS success” mission… which, if you choose to accept it... Let’s admit it: if the LMS were a party, employees would be lining up outside and you’d be doing face control because inside it would be pure chaos. As a training manager, though, when you ...