I’ve said before that the role of learning and development is to support the people in our organisations who do the actual work. This isn’t to dismiss our work as unimportant but: We’re not on the phones speaking to clients. We’re not working outside in all weather conditions. We’re not growing the number of new customers to our business. We’re not on the production line in a factory. However, we’re attempting to create learning experiences and support tools for them. Our goal is to improve their performance, but we often don’t understand what their job is like because we work a ..read more