Post by Beny Cuschnir

Your employees tell you they want to learn from one another, but have no time to teach. What do you do? This was the question my team (Carina Geuer, Isabel Custers, Louisa De Beus, Mariella Eixler, and yours truly) wrestled with over the past two months. As part of the course “Supporting Learning @ Work”, we put on our field research hats and interviewed frontline workers at Stichting Radar, a disability care foundation in the province of Limburg. Our findings, along with a few peer-reviewed papers exploring the concept of informal learning, served as the bedrock of the action plan we designed for Radar. Since I don’t want to give away too much, I’ll just say we had a few cards up our sleeves 🤭 The six consulting teams formed in April, each paired with a unique client, came together yesterday to present our solutions. In addition to the usual butterflies that come with addressing an audience of several dozen people, we got a little emotional when it hit us that this was the last time all of the students (and professors!) involved in the LDO Master’s 2025-26 would be physically together. Dit jaar was echt een prachtig cadeau 🇳🇱 My fantastic teammates deserve all the gratitude in the world, but I also want to say thanks to a few special people: ● Rob Houben, our L&D guru at Radar – for explaining his mission to us with patience, transparency, and levity; ● Leon Gnad, our tireless academic coach – for offering firm, but extremely respectful advice on our writing, our proposed solutions, and our unconventional ideas for the final presentation; ● Laurie Delnoij, the coordinator of this course – for making the task exceptionally clear from the word “go”, providing constant encouragement, and managing a long list of stakeholders to make the presentation day possible; and, last but not least... ● Therese Grohnert, the coordinator of our Master’s program – for paying the deepest attention to the journey of every student, making herself available as a career coach, and connecting us with the considerable amount of influential L&D stakeholders in her network.   This is a course I won’t be forgetting anytime soon!