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    Catechism of cliché (3) – the L&D pep talk

    cowWhat is your job this morning?

    • To share ideas around our vision

    I appreciate your generosity.  What act of manual dexterity will you also be performing?

    • Positioning the change programme

    With what aim, of considerable aeronautical value?

    • So that it lands well

    Whence are we beginning?

    • A good foundation

    In what provocatory surroundings will we find ourselves in the next year?

    • A challenging environment

    What will we do to this challenging environment?

    • Respond

    To what must our learning be closely aligned?

    • Business needs

    What should the method of propulsion  of our learning strategy be?

    • It should be driven by the needs of the business

    What propulsive activity should our learning, in turn, carry out?

    • It should drive business results

    Where will this ‘business’ be found?

    • At the customer interface

    What unitary outlet, of an arresting nature, will our new website become?

    • A one-stop shop

    What will this shop offer, provide, promote, make possible?

    • Access

    Access to what?

    • All your learning and development needs

    What will we be serving up to meet these needs?

    • Media rich content

    In what easily masticated form will these needs be met?

    • Bite size chunks

    What basic physics work will be executed by our social learning strategy?

    • It will leverage the collective knowledge of the workforce

    In what tubular repositories does this collective knowledge currently reside, out of which we will pry it?

    • Silos

    That will require a lot of thought. Where will I do this thinking?

    • Outside the box

    Oh, you were doing so well.  Go away.

     

    (With apologies to the spirit of Flann O’Brien)

    Catechism of cliche (1) – the Rapid Authoring Tool
    Catechism of cliche (2) – the LMS