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...heck he was talking about the entire evening."
I could sympathize. To me, the word pedagogy sums up everything that's wrong with the profession. It sometimes appears that training and development professionals work hard to have their own language, seemingly bent on creating "semantic chaos," as Pat Galagan, ASTD's managing director of content, reported recently. The goal might be to sound smart when rather they should convey ideas in simple, easy-to-comprehend language. * "The Future of the Profession Fromerly Known as Training," by Pat Galagan (December 2003 T+D).
Kevin Kruse, a self-professed "e-learning guru," recently admonished people for buying a book he wrote a few years ago, recommending that they buy another professional's new book on the same subject, written in a more straightforward manner. Says Kruse, "I was a young pup when I wrote mine so I did the 'oh so serious,' trying-to-sound-smart style and the classic ISD stuff. Boring!"
Bored and confused. That's a pretty good summary of the way most senior executives feel upon immersing themselves in our world. While experts in the profession debate whether their industry should be called training or performance or human process engineering and debate the gap between humanistic versus behaviorist approaches, senior executives are rolling their eyes as soon as they walk out of the room. What executives want to hear are good ideas to improve the business, simply explained, not someone intentionally speaking over their heads and daring them to keep up.
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