Straight Talking. Clear Thinking.
‘This time, Nigel,’ Vivienne insisted, ‘we want some different and special and not the same old, same old that we can get from any other elearning provider.’ Michael, a senior manager at the same management consultancy was equally demanding: ‘When it comes to the test, for heaven’s sake don’t call it a “quiz” (which sounds […]
How best to respond to “We’d like just nuggets, please”? Am I right to feel a little uneasy when a customer or potential customer (I can’t bring myself to use the ugly term ‘prospect’) says that all they want is ‘just nuggets’? In the back of my mind there’s a kindly relative asking “Just nuggets, […]
Well, who wouldn’t want to be? Agile, I mean. Given that there are so many antonyms of ‘agile’, including dull, ignorant, inactive, lazy, lethargic, lifeless, rigid, slow, and for good measure, probably sluggish too. My background is in software development and traditional IT classroom training on topics including programming and project management. I gained twenty […]
Ruth: “Nick, When do you think you’ll have your proposed blog entry ready?” Nick: “I’m hoping to be able to sketch you something soon.” Ruth: “Is ‘something soon’ your target?” Nick: “Yes.” Ruth: “It doesn’t sound all that SMART a target to me.” Ruth is, of course absolutely spot on; my suggested ‘target’ was neither […]
I’ll start with a shameless plug: Learning Technologies 2012, conference and exhibition, takes place on Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th of this month at Olympia – and I’d love you to come and visit us on stand 33. We’ve brought together our ideas on serious games, learning on-the-move and assessment into a single engaging mobile […]
Now before you start thinking this post is going to be full of sour grapes, let me explain that I’m quite happy with the awards Saffron has won in the past. I’m also looking forward to pitching along with our client to win an LPI 2012 award for which we’ve just been short-listed. And that’s […]
