Reframe resistance into what matters most and watch your stakeholder relationships (and influence) soar.

Leaving order-taking behind in favor of working as a strategic business partner means you need to move beyond changing your processes.

Eliminate your fear of irrelevance with an alternate approach.

Begging for buy-in means we might be approaching our work backwards.

Have stakeholder expectations of L&D miracle work become the norm? How can we change this?

Complaining about not having a seat indicates that we don't understand what it means to actually have one.

Those who succumb to the comfort of complaints aren’t the ones who triumph.

Is your head spinning with how to measure for your L&D programs and initiatives? Mine was too.

Turns out, this favorite vacation destination also has some wisdom to share.

Getting knocked off kilter might just be the best learning strategy.

Let’s get intentional about the purpose of the learning and design accordingly.

How many skills do we really need to be successful in L&D?

There's an opportunity within every training order to move the needle closer to working as a strategic business partner. You just need to find it.

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Let's make sure the choice to say yes or no to requests is intentional and strategic.

Training or development? Outcomes or objectives? Workshops, sessions, or courses? Does it really matter what we call our work?

L&D needs to work with stakeholders and SMEs in order to create effective learning solutions. We need their feedback, their expertise, information only they have access to, and their partnership to make it all happen.

So, what are we to do when our work with them includes more blockers than anything?

If you truly want to move from a place where you are taking training orders to one where you work with your stakeholders as a strategic business partner, you need to know how they see you. Your stakeholders' perceptions define how they work with you. You can work to shift these perceptions, but first you need to know what they are.

Have you felt frustrated when a stakeholder comes to you asking for a specific training solution in a shortened timeline?

One day, as I was sharing these frustrations with my boss in a one-on-one, she simply responded with, "We need to train the business how to do business with us."

Too often in L&D we think that the way we are working is helpful, but these behaviors are exactly what keep us stuck working as transactional order takers.

In other words, we unintentionally sabotage our own success.