Steal These Thoughts 30.05.23 | The Performance Consulting Cheatsheet

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Too often I see workplace learning teams take requests like a Mcdonald's drive-thru.A line manager comes up and asks for a hamburger and our good old L&D team asks if they want fries with that, and returns 6-12 months later with the final product.But does anyone consider if a hamburger is what the line manager needs? Not so much.The lack of probing and asking questions to understand the problem at hand is killing your organisation's ability to do stuff that actually makes a difference to the performance of your people.Here’s a very simplified example of how 90% of workplace learning team's relationships with stakeholders work:

In workplace learning teams it has been the norm to play the role of an order taker and not by choice of course. Many of us have been trying to establish a different approach, one that’s centered on performance consulting.

Being seen as a trusted consultant to get to the root cause of problems. Which is encouraged if you are in the pursuit of avoiding the act of creating even more problems to solve an undefined problem.

You may, like me, find that most things a business will proclaim are an L&D problem are not, in fact, an L&D problem. But, I get it. It’s hard to have to influence every person that throws themselves at you with the “I have an L&D need” to this way of thinking. We all have to pick our battles after all.So, how do we change this?

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Content that has caught my attention and might interest you too.

As a self-confessed tech nerd, I'm ever curious about what inspires leaders in this field to create all the wonderful innovations we delight in today.In this short video, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, gives insight into what drives and inspires him.

Hadi Partovi, CEO of computer science education nonprofit Code.org speaks to Wall Street Journal about how the next generation of students will live and learn in an AI-enabled world. 

I'll be dropping some thoughts of my own on this topic in the coming weeks as I spend more time with learning organisations on intelligently adopting AI tools into their workflow.

If you're curious, here's three ways I can help you 👇

1/ My L&D toolkit stack with 20 free tools.2/ Grab a copy of my book with strategies and tools to thrive in a 9-5 career. 3/ Bounce ideas around with me in a 1:1 session.--Please do share your thoughts with me on these pieces or anything I share on LinkedIn or hit 'reply'. Chat to you soon.

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