Book club: Driving Performance through Learning

Following the suggestion back in the summer that we should start a bookclub, I think we broadly agreed to begin with  's book - Driving Performance through Learning: Develop Employees through Effective Workplace Learning, which was on  's shortlist.

Andy works at CIPD so I know he would probably pop on here if we wanted his input during the process!

A reminder that CIPD members can get a 20% discount off Kogan Page books. (If you log in the CIPD website you should be able to view the code - on this page - which you need to use when purchasing.)

As we're almost at the end of September, we'll call Andy's book our "October" choice.

On that other thread I posted my first pass at some possible questions for kick-starting discussion here after we all read Andy's book!!

  • Did the book appeal to you? Why or why not?
  • Share your favourite argument or quote. Why did you like it?
  • Which aspects of the book (if any!) was less convincing?
  • What is your big takeaway and how might the book help you - at work / your personal development?

  chipped in the further question, below Point down

  • Did you have a go at any of the reflections?

Let's go!

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  • Am I just an order-taker and an account-holder? Or a performance-enabler and a value-creator? (Part 2 ch 2. p.80) I didn't expect to be writing again so quickly but, this morning, as I think about how to make the L&D budget work for next year - about first principles, as well as redesigning the process for request/allocation - I get a message from one of the IT team, asking if I can approve an L&D payment through a backdated application. Fortunately, it's only a small amount, but it kind of sums up where I don't want to be. However, with Andy's book to hand, I'm skimming through the chapter on Diagnosing Needs, planning how I want things to work and hoping to avoid too many knee-jerk responses, in future. That's the value of this book, I think. It's like an ever-ready coach that keeps you on the straight and narrow of L&D whilst helping you to look up and out onto the broader vista of organisational development. I just hope I can get time with our leadership team to get those first principles in place!
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