Sometimes like everyone, I have my up days and I have my down days. For the last couple of weeks, I have been feeling decidedly flat and unmotivated. I’m someone who is affected by the weather and the cooling temperature is making me dread the upcoming winter. A cynical part of me calls it “the […]
Working Out Loud in Week 9
I am part of a Working Out Loud Circle hosted by Simon Fogg (@srjf) and we are currently in week 9. A Working Out Loud circle is a 12-week program and developed by John Stepper (@johnstepper). Participants meet online every week and go through a set of different activities and tasks to help them achieve […]
The Wonder of Working with Creative Teams
I’m working on a fake news channel on Snapchat and here I put some reflections down on the value I’m receiving from being part of this creative team. The Wonder of Creating with Teams This blog post by Helen Blunden was written in Melbourne, Australia and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Never […]
The Importance of Sponsors To Build Your Personal Learning Networks
Here’s a collection of tweets made into a Moment. A fitting name for the moment of reflections when someone says something to me and I make a connection to it with something else. On Sponsorship & Personal Learning Networks This blog post by Helen Blunden was written in Melbourne, Australia and is licensed under a Creative Commons […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 27 March 2017
Here are the snap stories of the week of 27 March. For some reason Monday seems to have disappeared which is unfortunate because I had a rant about the two fundamental skills of any modern worker that have been the most useful to me. These skills were: Building a Personal Learning Network; and, Personal Knowledge […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 20 March 2017
Here are my snap stories for the week of 20 March… Wednesday 22 March 2017 – Work Out Loud Wednesday Today I talked about the concept of an ‘internal influencer’ or intrapreneur or change agent. I had been talking to a colleague about the concept of ‘influencer’ which seems to be a term that is […]
This Week’s Snap Stories on Personal Learning Week of 6 March 2017
This week I continue to use Snapchat as my video editor to vlog some of my snap stories on personal learning. This week it’s been about automation, consulting books and writing eBooks! I have been using this time to work on my own Personal Learning Plan which involves a lot more book reading, exploring the […]
Excited About a New Role
After four months of searching for a job, I’m happy to say that I’m excited about a new role as a Learning Architect with a major insurance company in Australia, IAG. The role is for three months and I’ll be part of the Capability and Learning team who will roll out a new social collaboration […]
Lessons From An Independent Consultant
All gifs in this post via GIPHY It’s hard to imagine that three years have already gone by since I left the corporate world to become an independent consultant. It has been one of the most transformative personal learning journeys for me in my life that’s seen me ride the peaks and troughs of consulting work. There […]
This Week’s Snap Stories on Personal Learning
This week I continue to use Snapchat as my video editor to vlog some of my snap stories on personal learning. As well as continuing with the disheartening job search, I have been using this week to read more books (I’m now reading Drucker’s The Learning Organization) as well as write an ebook on Snapchat. […]