Competence Crisis

Most organisations invest in training, yet struggle to prove whether any of it actually sticks. Employees complete courses, tick boxes, and move on, but the real question remains unanswered: can they actually…

Something has broken at the heart of modern organisations, and the data leaves leaders unable to ignore it. Companies are spending more than ever on training programs, leadership development, and talent acquisition,…

The rules governing professional excellence have quietly shifted beneath our feet, and most organisations haven’t noticed yet. Competence, once a relatively stable benchmark defined by credentials, technical knowledge, and measurable outputs. Has…

The competence crisis is a Story Everyone Recognises but No One Says Out Loud It starts the same way it always does. A meeting invite lands in your calendar. No real agenda.…

Fake it till you make it !!! This was never a term used when I was job hunting. In the 2000s when I left the military and was looking for my next…

Previous articles I have written can come back to Imposter syndrome. My article on mental health looked at men’s stubbornness when it comes to admission of needing help. Then later we looked…

Using Instructional design to improve learning environments is a concept slowly becoming a requirement in education and industry. Although instructional design only recently becoming a phrase more widely used it has been…

I decided to write this article based on the typical behaviour of the new entitled generation or “snowflakes” that are now in the workplace, giving managers like me a hard time. In…