http://engagedlearning.net/post/thoughts-are-you-a-chef-or-a-waiter/ Enterprise 2.0 Straight Talk Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://engagedlearning.net/post/thoughts-are-you-a-chef-or-a-waiter/comment-page-1/#comment-5593 Dave Wilkins Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:42:37 +0000 http://engagedlearning.net/?p=318#comment-5593 I was thinking about this after the podcast too. And I think that maybe an even bigger issue is that too many learning professionals try to be both. Unfortunately, almost no one is trained as a "chef." So what they do instead is microwave some crappy frozen dinner, which in the learning world, we call Articulate and Captivate. And then, because they turned on the microwave for 20 seconds and opened a couple of spice packs, they call themselves a chef with no real meaning of what being a chef entails. It's the whole pipe / plumber issue. Most of us are the pipe when we should be the plumber. I was thinking about this after the podcast too. And I think that maybe an even bigger issue is that too many learning professionals try to be both. Unfortunately, almost no one is trained as a “chef.” So what they do instead is microwave some crappy frozen dinner, which in the learning world, we call Articulate and Captivate. And then, because they turned on the microwave for 20 seconds and opened a couple of spice packs, they call themselves a chef with no real meaning of what being a chef entails. It’s the whole pipe / plumber issue. Most of us are the pipe when we should be the plumber.

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