459 — OHLs over OKRs: A new approach to goal-setting

Aug 25, 2025

Objectives and Key Results have long been a staple of the working world. You set a stretch objective, define the results that will tell you if the objective has been met, and scaffold throughout the organization.

Then what?

Often, nothing happens. The OKRs were too vague. In extreme cases, the worst happens: people bend...

458 — What do you bench(mark)?

Aug 19, 2025

Here at Mindtools Towers, we're no strangers to benchmarking in L&D. We've regularly mentioned our Learning Performance Benchmark over the years, and we dedicated an entire episode to 'The value of benchmarking' back in 2021.  So, naturally, we were intrigued when David James released the 'L&D Maturity Model', and...

457 — Evaluation or justification?

Aug 12, 2025

Now for something completely different!

A couple of weeks ago, Carl Akintola wrote a provocative guest post for The L&D Dispatch, challenging L&D practitioners to interogate their motives for measuring learning impact. Are they in it purely for the sake of evaluation and continuous improvement? Or are they merely trying...

456 — Building tolerance in the workplace

Aug 5, 2025