quick wins

The path of least resistance....

Do you spend more time trying to get the detractors onside than you do encouraging your supporters? As a trainer it is all too easy to focus on the one person who seems disengaged during a workshop than the other 11 who are clearly benefitting.

A high proportion of people come into Learning and Development after an internal move from an operational role. Most of us have another profession - and a passion for helping people to learn. So it follows that in any organisation there are likely to be other operational people with that same passion who perhaps haven't had the opportunity to pursue it more formally.

So if you want to start creating a true learning organisation these are the people to start with. You'll likely know how they are.

So select a few and extend a personal invitation to them to be involved in supporting a move to a learning organisation. Then get this group of people thinking about new ways to support learning. Start by asking:

If there was no Learning and Development department in this organisation, how would people find out what they need to know to do their job effectively and safely?

When great ideas come up allow this group to think about how they would implement them and hey presto the power is shifting from you to them.