The Learning and Development Bootstrapper

Come on; we've all been there; someone needs training, so we immediately start thinking about how we're going to do it. We start flipping through the imaginary Rolodex in our head to pick out the best option from whatever we happen to have been exposed to in the past. For some of us, that was around 240 years ago when we were still in secondary school, so the training we instinctively provide is an all-day classroom lecture with copious note-taking. More recent learning experiences might suggest that we should create a sexy piece of e-learning with interactive graphics and maybe even some video. For those of us right at the cutting edge of L&D, we may find ourselves itching to implement the latest technology - perhaps some VR or AR - or whatever buzz-term is the current industry zeitgeist. This is what a Rolodex is, kids. A car jack is excellent - as long as the problem is a flat tyre Whichever delivery method we decide to go with, it's probably the wrong o...

Long ago, but not long enough, in cold rooms brightly lit by fluorescent tubes, new employees are watching an overpaid bullshit merchant read from a slideshow. A new piece of computer software, soon to be called PowerPoint, has been taking the business world by storm and behold; corporate training is born! "I literally read this for the first time on the bus on the way here..." Enter; e-learning After a decade of this nonsense, employees were begging for mercy and employers were desperate for something quicker and cheaper than 5 days in a classroom. Enter; e-learning. Remember back in the 90s when we put "e" in front of everything to make it sound futuristic? How much of that stuck around? e-learning and eBay. I can't think of any others, can you? But, I digress... e-Learning was supposed to be the holy grail of L&D; a simultaneous silver bullet and magical panacea, that would both kill the monster of corporate L&D and then magically resurre...