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That brash and intimidating humvee called ‘The American Way’

I have just returned from a week in Pakistan where I taught strategic L&D Masterclasses in Karachi and Lahore. When I received the original invitation, some months ago, I thought really long and hard before I decided to accept but … Continue...

Published 2 Jul 2012 10:27 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: General HR Council, EB Learning & Development, Google, Truth Seekers & Idealists, Diversity - EOD, American Way, genchi genbutsu, Laszlo Bock, management gurus, Prasad setty, strategic learning

Organisational Maturity 1 – All organisations are immature when it comes to learning

Do you remember something called the ‘learning organisation’? It was all the rage about 15 years ago. All of a sudden everyone was calling themselves a learning organisation because if you were not a learning organisation then what were you Read the Rest...

Published 6 Dec 2011 12:10 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Critiques, EB Learning & Development, MBA Questions, EBHR Solutions, benchmarking training, learning maturity, learning organization

‘You were absolutely wonderful darling’ – Amateur dramatics in L&D

Some years ago a friend in a local, and very amateur, drama group – we’re talking village halls here not the Royal Shakespeare Company – was about to start rehearsals for their big, annual performance but had to pull out Read the Rest »...

Published 11 Oct 2011 11:19 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Critiques, EB Learning & Development, Truth Seekers & Idealists, amateur dramatics, amdram

The Rise and Fall of America’s management ‘empire’.

There are many, many things that I have come to admire about the ‘American Way’ over the years but human capital management isn’t one of them (nor the subtlety of their automotive designs). Having experienced, at first hand, the style Read the Rest »...

Published 5 Sep 2011 11:43 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: General HR Council, EB Leadership, EB Learning & Development, evaluation, ROI, Jack Phillips, Kirkpatrick, Evaluation & ROI, HCM, human capital management, level5

EBHR is worth $ billions

No organisation is ever going to try out EBHR if they cannot see the $ value in it so it is about time I put my money where my mouth is, so to speak. There cannot be a better example Read the Rest » Read More...

Published 1 Sep 2011 10:56 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, EB Learning & Development, EBHR Solutions, AstraZeneca, drug discovery, GSK, Pfizer

The last word on Learning Needs Analysis (LNA)

Adopting an evidence-based approach to learning and development is not new – far from it. Trainers just have to do what they have always been taught to do – learning needs analysis (LNA) and evaluation. These two, crucial steps are Read the Rest...

Published 14 Jul 2011 11:25 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Learning & Development, EBHR Solutions, training evaluation, Evaluation & ROI, learning needs analysis, LNA, TNA, yin and yang

EBM – Doing it for real – Lesson 10 – Design Human Systems

In our continued exploration of organisational anatomy and the strategic management framework you should have noticed by now a distinct emphasis here on the human aspects. In reality the human dimension is rarely, if ever, fully taken into account; especially...

Published 2 Jun 2011 11:56 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, EB Learning & Development, EBHR Solutions, systems, All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, Fukushima, human systems, IAEA, systems design

Evaluation of learning – 3 simple rules of the game

When is a profession not a profession? When it fails to follow its own professional advice. Imagine a surgeon saying – ‘Yes, I know the operating theatre should be a sterile environment but hey, what are a few bacteria among Read the Rest » Read...

Published 20 Apr 2011 3:50 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Learning & Development, EBHR Solutions, training evaluation

EBM – Doing it for real – Lesson 2

If you read Lesson 1 you might have noticed that we did not achieve what we set out to do – there was no evidence base agreed by the end of the Lesson, only a pointer to more questions. So … Continue reading → Read More...

Published 16 Feb 2011 10:18 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, EB Learning & Development, Lessons in EBM

Does anyone know where can I find an infinite supply of monkeys?

You are probably well aware of the theory that given an infinite supply of monkeys, with an infinite supply of computers, one would eventually produce, purely through random keystrokes, the entire works of Shakespeare. Bob Newhart famously skewered this...

Published 27 Jan 2011 3:23 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, EB Learning & Development, EBHR Solutions, BBC, Ashridge, infinite monkeys, leadership development, Shakespeare

McEducation?

Tony Blair, that infamously, self-proclaimed “straight kinda guy” is now probably most infamous for the Iraq war but I think he should actually be more infamous for his fatuous cry of ‘education, education, education’ (1996 Labour Party Conference) –...

Published 21 Jan 2011 10:58 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, EBHR Critiques, EB Learning & Development, academic research funding, degrees, education education education, Higher education, Iraq war, NASA, Teflon, Tony Blair, university tuition fees

‘Half the money we spend on HR is wasted – we just don’t know which half.’

Having borrowed that famous saying from the advertising industry – where the reality is probably even worse than they are prepared to admit – conventional wisdom has accepted this lame excuse as a truism for far too long. In the … Continue...

Published 17 Nov 2010 12:27 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, EB Learning & Development, EBHR Solutions, community, Marks & Spencer, social responsibility, transactional HR

NHS – A terminal case of management cancer? Part 1.

Evidence-based managers always spell out their assumptions and those assumptions need to address any problems that are likely to occur. When I was taught the Hay method of job evaluation years ago the tutor did not follow this principle and … Continue...

Published 27 Oct 2010 4:37 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, EB Learning & Development, NHS, Daniel Goleman, EB Product Testing Lab, competence, core competence, David Nicholson, Greg Dyke, Hamel, Hay, Institute Innovation Improvement, Leadership Council, McBer, ONS, Prahalad

Is a cafe the best place to learn?

Evidence-based management (EBM) is inherently a critical discipline; in every sense of the word. The perspective it adopts is that of an unapologetic, ‘doubting Thomas’ – until you see convincing evidence you will not be convinced. This presents...

Published 1 Sep 2010 1:01 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: Business in the community, Cafe Culture, EB Learning & Development, Google, John Hayes, Microsoft

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