Adult education is a little like poking a bear with a stick. Up to a point, the bear will happily sit there and "put up with" the jab jab jabbity jabbing...and then it will strike.

The "bears" (No, not the urban dictionary version) usually sit there with folded arms and crossed legs with blank (or outright contemptuous) expressions until their ire for the training reaches the point of "swiping" at the stick poker.

Now, if those "bears" are right, swipe away. If they are the most competent, most flexible, most robust employees and leaders in their own right, then go right ahead grab the stick off me and poke me back.  I won't mind being told where I am wrong (and hopefully right) in my training delivery and information.

Now, not every training session has "Bears." In fact, many have co-operative and willing participants. These training sessions are still improves by the simple approach of developing and delivering training that is "fit for purpose" and has participant involvement. Long gone are the days of mind numbing Power Points and droning speeches, yet we still see this being done it many businesses today! Stop it!

So, How Do You Stop it!? Stop delivering training as if you were back at school!  Sadly, for many trainings who have been trained "internally." They only know one style of training, and that's the way they were taught at school.

Please, stop doing that! Treating adults like children will only lead to much poking and swiping and very little actual learning,

These are all words that mean your website is able to be viewed, happily, on a potential customers mobile device. So, what's the attraction? Well, we are not using them to make calls anymore, are we?

On the 10th of March 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invented a device that would allow us to speak in real time to a loved one or a person from across the globe.  Little did he know, that the "not so" humble beginnings of this device would lead to the worldwide revolution and eventually lack of use of his intended design.

Yes, the good old phone call is rapidly heading towards extinction.

We just don’t seem to make phone calls on them anymore.  Instead, our mobile devices are used for emails, texting, video call, surfing, consumerism and playing games.  Uh huh, games! (I imagine that trying to play Tetris on a phone from 1876 would be stacking actual bricks on top of it.)

So where are we at now? Well, to answer that question we need stats, and Deloitte have thankfully done all the leg work for us.  They have put together this fantastic report that shows us what we are doing with our phones, and when we are doing it.