Simon Fowler

I bet! Thanks. When I need to do it next I'll come knocking. (After I've read your book.)

Thanks @learnchat.bsky.social folk for running this. Warms my heart to see so many old(er!) faces and wisdom again! #learnchat (or #lrnchat if you're @kpagano.bsky.social !)

I should attend Will Thalheimer's LTEM course - my guess is there's nuggets there? Is he on bsky? #learnchat

Wrap) The actual process of assessing skills seems so fraught and almost impossible to do reliably and at scale? Who does the assessing, how (esp with people/context-dependent skills), how reliable? #learnchat

Hi Jane! You too!

A6: Not really an answer: The aerospace org I once worked with had 11,000 skills entered freeform in their database, 27 of them were variations of "sw dev" or somesuch. Then wanted to us to help them move to agile and see measurable improvement. #learnchat

#learnchat A5) To make personalization really work, everything needs to be relevant - context, skills needed, proficiency level, assessment of progress. Plus! The more personalized something is, the less generalized data we get as L&D folks to learn from...

Two keys to success: 1) As noted already, give people something to do, do not just tell them things. 2) Make it easy for them to recognize their progress. I am not trying to bring back badges, but a sufficiently designed ripple of ever-increasing challenges will work as well or better. #LearnChat

#learnchat A4) Written and verbal communication are often looked at outside of work contexts, but as a leader, someone who can clearly articulate a problem, potential solutions, their recommendation and impact is priceless. Getting specific with tasks and success metrics is key

This is why @kpagano.bsky.social is here, no? :)

And human skills are SO contextual. So many ways to hamfist up "3 steps to effective feedback", starting with not even noticing when its appropriate/helpful. #learnchat

We tried for years to get people beyond the buyer to sit down and discuss measurement beyond L1, and support, reinforcement. They'd never invest the time or money to ensure they money and time they invested made a difference. #learnchat

@daveferguson.bsky.social it's a delight to see you experience your wonderful reflections again! Such a way with words! #learnchat

Same.

I don't at all. I learn all the time, and I get better at doing things I do but I don't really measure or keep track. I'm also not terribly focused. #learnchat

I think skills are somewhat fractal - they build and interact with other skills to do a meta skill, and on up, or down.

A1: "skills-based approach" ... current thought is being able to perform a discrete focused behavior (speech, interaction, practical thing you do) that demonstrably has a positive effect (as determined by context), and perform it better than last time? I don't know. Good question though. #learnchat

Q0) learned last week that Cursor AI tool is human-like. It ignored what I asked and it did something else. I asked it why, it said, "I went to do what you asked then ... I got distracted!" For real. #learnchat

Hi Jean!

Q0) Simon - Brit in Boston for couple decades. Recovering corporate training person. Focusing now on "relational dynamics". Always thinking about learning and human behavior. #learnchat

Q0) We like to start the chat with a round of introductions. Please let us know a bit about yourself: who you are, where you are from, what kind of work you do, and maybe share something you have learned this week.

Don't forget to add #LearnChat to each post/response so it shows up in the feed.

Can we agree that persuade and pursue both start with pe or both start with pu but for crying out loud the same two letters so I don't pick the wrong one Every Single Damned Time I've written the words for my entire life?

Thus may be the single biggest issue in our institutions and culture at the moment.

We lack the skills of discourse.
We think conflict needs necessarily to be continuous.
We try to resolve things that don’t need to be/can never be.
We lack imagination to find novel collaborative solutions.

Sadly going to miss #LearnChat tonight. Have fun y'all.

Lots of learned wisdom here, and a strong encouragement against passivity, to exercise our agency with others ... for parenting, public life, organizational life ...

Thanks for making it happen! So nice to see folk from the old days and welcome the new! #LearnChat

Close to tweetdeck experience. Choosing 15s column option using search option worked for following. Wish it was easier to see who was being replied to. Couldn't work out how to post from here so went to main site.

Christy! Hi! Seein you here reminds me of a real learning experience about degrees of contact (in relational proximity) after we spoke on the phone for the first time following lots of #lrnchat interaction. How going from text to voice created a new dimension of relationship. Thank you! #LearnChat

Good to know! Thanks! #LearnChat

A6) I confess one of the things that caused me to stop engaging in old #lrnchat was that the conversion didn't seem to move on any. In part understandable bc the problems are the same. Hence I'm eager for participants from outside L&D who have an interest in learning. #learnchat