Learning Corner
The Open Shelf
What we watch, what we read, and the frameworks we use often enough that they may as well be public. Take any of it into your own rooms.
Watch
Hold That Thought
Conversations with the tribe and the people around it, on the questions that come up in every organisation we walk into.
Hold that Thought — S01E01
First Who Then What
with Furqan Qureshi
Three decades of industry, most of it at C-level, on why the order matters: the right people first, the strategy second.
Hold that Thought — S01E02
Inclusive Leadership
with Sadaf Usman & Saquib Niaz
What inclusion asks of a leader once the policy is written and the poster is on the wall.
Hold that Thought — S01E03
First Who Then What
with Ibraheem Ahmad
An enabler on ten years of turning individuals and organisations on across Pakistan.
Holistic Living — Striving for Balance
Balance as a practice rather than a destination, and what that looks like inside a working week.
Frameworks
How We Actually Think About This
Four working models. Nothing proprietary is being held back — the value was never in the framework, it is in what happens in the room.
DiagnosisTurn-offs first
Most learning needs analyses ask people what training they want. That produces a catalogue, not a change. Torque starts at the other end: what is currently turning this group off?
Read Turn-offs first in fullDesignTurn-on sauce
Turn-on sauce is Torque's name for the design choices that make learning delicious, digestible and developmental — rather than merely delivered.
Read Turn-on sauce in fullDeliveryExperiential
Some things cannot be read. They have to be felt.
Read Experiential in fullDeliveryDigital
Some things do not need a room. They need repeating.
Read Digital in fullTransferReinforcements and follow-thrus
The room ends on Friday. The habit was supposed to start on Monday.
Read Reinforcements and follow-thrus in fullRead & review
The Shelf
A shelf, not a syllabus. The tribe is adding its own — each book will carry the name of whoever put it there.
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Leadership
The source of 'first who, then what' — the idea behind the first two episodes of Hold that Thought.
The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
Organisational learning
Why individual training rarely survives contact with the system it returns to.
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Decisions
The groundwork under Problem Hatching and Decisions, and under most of what goes wrong in a meeting.
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Mind & heart
Still the reference point for the EI turnshop, twenty-five years on.
Drive by Daniel H. Pink
Motivation
Autonomy, mastery and purpose — a useful vocabulary for naming turn-offs that look like pay problems.
Training from the Back of the Room by Sharon L. Bowman
Facilitation
A working trainer's book. Required reading on Train the Trainer.
Assessments
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