Training

  • Accountability in learning

    What if you were the key internal resource person with learning expertise? What if you advocated, recommended, and prescribed low-volume, high-cost face-to-face training? What if your advocacy was so successful that global partners invested hundreds of millions of dollars in what you prescribed – even in the absence of any standard to determine the return…

    Defoe in the Pillory
  • 3 critical questions for the new Humanitarian Leadership Academy

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    This morning, I’m looking forward to the London launch event for Save The Children’s Humanitarian Leadership Academy, touted by the Guardian as the “world’s first academy for humanitarian relief” that “may revolutionize” the sector. I ask the following three questions as a sympathetic observer: the Academy’s focus on the learning need for improved and scaled capacity in…

    Sunrise Over Cape Yamu Phuket Thailand Panorama (Kim Seng Suivre/flickr.com)
  • LSi.io interviews Plan B’s Donald Clark: Universities and humanitarian organizations in the Age of Disruption

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    Donald Clark is an education innovator with no institutional ties to refrain him from telling it like it is. He answers three questions from LSi.io‘s Reda Sadki: Zach Sims at Davos referred to university brick-and-mortar structures as the “detritus” of a bygone area. Agree or disagree? We all remember Sebastian Thrun’s predictions about the impending…

    Plan B's Donald Clark