Parkin's Lot

It's time for me to move on from Parkin's Lot, a blog I started way back when blogging was not yet a household term, and whose focus...

I apologise for taking a few months’ hiatus at Parkin’s Lot without sticking a “Gone Fishing” sign on the blog. I’d like to thank all of t...

In an interview this week with the UK's TrainingZONE, Martyn Sloman of the CIPD (Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development) mad...

Everything we do in business involves collaboration, problem solving and negotiation, and you can’t do any of those without understanding th...

I recently let slip a comment to the effect that corporate trainers might be due for extinction within a decade, and, understandably, the as...

The recent discussion about professionalism in training has been interesting. I expected strongly held polarized views, but there actually s...

Whenever I use the terms “training profession” or “training professionals” I do so apologetically. I use those labels as an expedient shortc...

I have recently been running a training evaluation project with a financial advice company in the midst of the global battle for share of th...

It seems to me that these days the hard-working trainer gets maligned by just about everyone, including fellow trainers, not for doing a bad...