What the evidence says about how adults actually learn and retain change, and why most corporate training doesn’t survive contact with real work.
There is a particular kind of ‘theatre’ that often fuels organisational life, and the ‘difficult conversations’ workshop is one of its more regular productions. Let’s say something surfaces in a team. A falling-out between two colleagues. A dire engagement-survey...
Dominant models of organisational learning treat knowledge as transferable content. Information flows in one direction - from expert to novice, from presentation to participant - with the implicit assumption that understanding follows comprehension. The body, in this...
Most corporate learning programs suffer from a peculiar form of organisational amnesia. Participants emerge from training rooms brimming with insights, only to find their newfound knowledge evaporating upon contact with the unyielding complexity of daily work. This...
Organisations worldwide spend somewhere between $380-$400 billion annually on workplace training. In Australia alone, that figure reached $8 billion in 2024. Yet most corporate learning programs operate on a peculiar fantasy: that insight acquired in a training room...
There is a particular kind of ‘theatre’ that often fuels organisational life, and the ‘difficult conversations’ workshop is one of its more regular productions. Let’s say something surfaces in a team. A falling-out between two colleagues. A dire engagement-survey...
Dominant models of organisational learning treat knowledge as transferable content. Information flows in one direction - from expert to novice, from presentation to participant - with the implicit assumption that understanding follows comprehension. The body, in this...
Most corporate learning programs suffer from a peculiar form of organisational amnesia. Participants emerge from training rooms brimming with insights, only to find their newfound knowledge evaporating upon contact with the unyielding complexity of daily work. This...
Organisations worldwide spend somewhere between $380-$400 billion annually on workplace training. In Australia alone, that figure reached $8 billion in 2024. Yet most corporate learning programs operate on a peculiar fantasy: that insight acquired in a training room...