Nightmare! One of the people at my new job (HMLR) has come from DWP and another from HMRC. Seems to be lots of moving around in the civil service. Best of luck with it all, mate. No time like the present to address the issues you're having: just be honest with your trainers and say, you are struggling and would like to put time and effort into making it right.
Yeah, I’ve found this since working from home. People have different learning styles. And personally I have to be engaged with what I am learning, so being lectured over Teams with tedious PowerPoint presentations and little to no interactive component is just a recipe for me completely switching off.
Do you know what your “learning style” is?
You also no longer have to tell your students that it’s “their” course and what they put in will determine how much they get out!!Before I retired during lockdown 1.0 I was a Learning & Development professional. Mainly Leadership and Management stuff just before I packed in.
One of the things I had to do in my final months was to redesign, develop and deliver various team workshops and training events that I’d otherwise have been running as fully interactive, experiential learning programmes. MS Teams was all I was allowed and no bugger had a clue about what I was trying to achieve or how to advise me.
After each and every one of the half dozen or so events I delivered in my final months the feedback I had was very good and complimentary. But it was bollocks. I just knew that some people had disengaged - the ones that in a live event I’d have spotted body language and would have switched things or facilitated differently to energise - and there was ample evidence via the technology that this was so.
Plus I. hated. every. f***ing. moment.
I’d spent years getting qualified, training, developing skills and knowledge on the best way to deliver learning and suddenly a whole load of what I knew to be the most effective approaches were denied to me.
I suppose and expect that new approaches and technology will replace a lot of what I used to do. It’s often cheaper and logistically easier. But it’s not better. It’s not effective. It doesn’t always result in learning, and/or changes in behaviour which is the point of training
A lot of what is referred to as training is really just an interactive presentation and the passing on of information. You might as well do e-learning. And we all know how easy it is to disengage from that still pass the tests. Again, there’s a skill in designing it and I’ve done that too... but I always thought “what would really work here, is if I could run an exercise or set a task to...” but I can’t. Cos computers can’t interact in that way ... or improvise, or read the room, or facilitate a discussion, or respond to challenge. Blah blah
I’m glad I retired, because if I’d had to do it that way for longer than I did I’d have been extremely stressed and frustrated and crap at it.
Obviously it’s 4:30 in the morning, I can’t sleep and I’m talking bollocks on the internet about L&D. But I ain’t half glad I’m not loading up the laptop and logging on for a teams session later this morning.
Why no, just be the usual useless help to the general public.
It's Britney bitch!Hate them me like
Apparently, I heard it many times
I feel your painBefore I retired during lockdown 1.0 I was a Learning & Development professional. Mainly Leadership and Management stuff just before I packed in.
One of the things I had to do in my final months was to redesign, develop and deliver various team workshops and training events that I’d otherwise have been running as fully interactive, experiential learning programmes. MS Teams was all I was allowed and no bugger had a clue about what I was trying to achieve or how to advise me.
After each and every one of the half dozen or so events I delivered in my final months the feedback I had was very good and complimentary. But it was bollocks. I just knew that some people had disengaged - the ones that in a live event I’d have spotted body language and would have switched things or facilitated differently to energise - and there was ample evidence via the technology that this was so.
Plus I. hated. every. f***ing. moment.
I’d spent years getting qualified, training, developing skills and knowledge on the best way to deliver learning and suddenly a whole load of what I knew to be the most effective approaches were denied to me.
I suppose and expect that new approaches and technology will replace a lot of what I used to do. It’s often cheaper and logistically easier. But it’s not better. It’s not effective. It doesn’t always result in learning, and/or changes in behaviour which is the point of training
A lot of what is referred to as training is really just an interactive presentation and the passing on of information. You might as well do e-learning. And we all know how easy it is to disengage from that still pass the tests. Again, there’s a skill in designing it and I’ve done that too... but I always thought “what would really work here, is if I could run an exercise or set a task to...” but I can’t. Cos computers can’t interact in that way ... or improvise, or read the room, or facilitate a discussion, or respond to challenge. Blah blah
I’m glad I retired, because if I’d had to do it that way for longer than I did I’d have been extremely stressed and frustrated and crap at it.
Obviously it’s 4:30 in the morning, I can’t sleep and I’m talking bollocks on the internet about L&D. But I ain’t half glad I’m not loading up the laptop and logging on for a teams session later this morning.
You gonna hurry up and kidnap her from her dad or what?No need for that mate
If you need a hand give me a shoutIf I find some chloroform, aye
