via GIPHY Recently I’ve been watching a series on ABCiView called Humans. It’s a show created in the UK about a recent future where robots (they call them ‘synths’) are used for various manual labour situations in the home or work. Seeing these situations played out on the television screen makes me mind race with […]
Image versus Substance
Last week Sukhinder Pabial (@sukhpabial) shared an observation on Twitter which has been one that I have often thought about. Make sure you go into the tweet and read the thread because it proposes alternative views around our different ways of how we present ourselves online. It got me thinking that I had similar questions […]
Learn a New Skill by Learning An Endangered Craft with New & Modern Twist
Some years ago, I was surfing through my Facebook feed and Ann McCrossen @annemcx who writes about the emergent organisation shared a PDF called The Radcliffe Red List of Endangered Crafts. Ann is also a wonderful ceramic artist when she’s not writing about organisations and in her website, she shares that part of herself, the […]
Doing A Booktube
I’ve written a lot in recent times about getting some of my time back to get my headspace out of thinking and talking about work all the time (at times it felt I was thinking about learning and development 24/7 and my mind had to take a break). The way I’ve been doing this is […]
Weekly Rapt: The Paradox of Professional Autonomy – on Reflective Practice in the Workplace
Welcome to Weekly Rapts Every week I come across some exceptional articles, books, videos, tweets and other stuff that captures my attention and inspires me to action which could be to write about a blog post; have a conversation about it with someone; create something from it; escape down a rabbit warren to learn more […]
Reflective Practice in the Workplace
“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.[Christopher Hitchens] This week I was invited to be a guest on the Good Practice podcast (a podcast on Work, Learning and Performance) which I accepted with some hesitation. (You should have seen the long-winded DM response in Twitter […]
Reading Books as Sense Making
Many of you already know about my return to fiction reading after becoming so frustrated with reading only what other people were reading in the area of Learning and Development, Marketing, Business and Entrepreneurship. I think I reached a saturation point with those because it was the same people talking about the same books, talking […]
A Pack of Podcasts
So what’s a collection of podcasts called? A Panel, a pack, a pile…? Last week, I needed some more podcasts to listen to and sent out a request to learn what people were listening to. I wanted something different to learning and development (got this one down pat) or true crime (not my taste). So […]
Weekly Rapts
Welcome to Weekly Rapts Every week I come across some exceptional articles, books, videos, tweets and other stuff that captures my attention and inspires me to action which could be to write about a blog post; have a conversation about it with someone; create something from it; escape down a rabbit warren to learn more […]
Soul Searching
For a long time now, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and soul searching about my life. I’m not going to lie that going my own way as an independent consultant was one of the best things I’ve done but also one of the most incredibly painful and expensive wake-up calls. Admittedly, I failed. […]