Tag Archives: Learning

The Power and Pride of Being Right

Posted on December 16, 2021 by julianstodd

Few of us like to be wrong, and yet we so often are. To be wrong can feel like being ‘found out’, or like somehow showing a weakness or failing. Most of us would rather be found out to be … Continue reading →

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Learning – Fragments

Posted on December 14, 2021 by julianstodd

Throughout this year i have been writing individual articles and short series exploring aspects of modern Organisational learning – all working towards a new publication that i hope to draw together next year: these pieces chart broad shifts in Organisational … Continue reading →

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Learning: Navigation and Sense Making

Posted on November 17, 2021 by julianstodd

Within a Scaffolded Social Learning approach we seek to balance structure with exploration by using a series of ‘spaces’ and ‘gateways’, thus helping to maintain tempo. Within this, i have been using language around ‘Navigation’ and ‘Sense Making’, and the … Continue reading →

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Shifts in Organisational Learning – The Nature of your Strength

Posted on November 15, 2021 by julianstodd

One of the innovations that allowed the Apollo spacecraft to journey to the moon was the development of a new generation of gyroscopes that formed part of the inertial navigation system. Essentially they formed part of a system that allowed … Continue reading →

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Broad Shifts in Organisational Learning – #3 Through The Cracks

Posted on November 11, 2021 by julianstodd

I am using a series of posts to explore broad shifts in Organisational Learning (as part of a wider discussion around the evolution of the Organisation itself). I find it increasingly difficult to separate conversations about ‘learning’ from the other … Continue reading →

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Broad Shifts in Organisational Learning #2 – Gaps

Posted on November 10, 2021 by julianstodd

Our conception of a challenge can frame our response to it: are we adapting within a known framework, or innovating a fundamentally new framework? Essentially a question we should ask is whether it is more efficient and effective to adapt … Continue reading →

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Broad Shifts in Organisational Learning

Posted on November 9, 2021 by julianstodd

I keep revisiting these ‘broad shifts’ in Organisational Learning, partly in response to my thinking evolving, but largely in search of simplicity. At the most elemental level, what is actually different? This sketch captures three aspects: a move away from … Continue reading →

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Your Journey – a Step or a Space?

Posted on July 28, 2021 by julianstodd

We sometimes present learning as a narrative: a journey with a starting point (here, in our ignorance) and an end point (over there, basking in enlightenment). We measure ‘progress’ and seek insight by staring into the distance. Perhaps our own … Continue reading →

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Learning: Goldrush

Posted on July 14, 2021 by julianstodd

Sooner or later, someone will strike gold: our Organisational relationship with learning is being mined from many different directions, and one assumes that at some point we will hit the paydirt. What are these directions? We are evolving the TYPE … Continue reading →

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#WorkingOutLoud on the Context, Practice, and Evolution of Organisational Learning

Posted on July 13, 2021 by julianstodd

I’m starting to finalise some of the structure around my reworking/graffiti of my core work on learning: on the plus side, i feel that i am finding the edges of this work, but on the downside, i am unsure it … Continue reading →

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