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This post was anonymously written as part of Blog Secret Santa. There’s a list of all Secret Santa posts, including one written by Helen Blunden, on Santa’s list of 2013 gift posts. As the end of the year approaches, I always take stock of my successes and opportunities for personal and professional growth. I’m sure […]
Seasons Greetings and a Happy New Year!
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Welcome to my home!
I’m still sorting out the furniture and getting things organised so please forgive me if things are a little screwy for the first week or so.
Activate Learning Solutions is Moving!
Well the time has come for me to have my own domain name and I will transfer this WordPress site to a WordPress.Org site (let’s see how that goes) on www.activatelearning.com.au over the coming days. Please feel free to follow me there. Thank you for reading my blog! Helen
All Quiet on the Blog Front
It’s going to be a bit quiet here for a while – well, not until Monday 12 August when I will happily report a Learning and Development tweet-up from London -so standby for some photos too. I’m excited to meet up with my Twitter L&D peeps next month in person! (That’ll be my Twitter story […]
It’s Really A Panopticon World
Last week I called my brother, an electrical engineer who was reading Foucault at the time. This didn’t strike me as odd because if you knew my brother, you’d realise this is normal behaviour. He is well-versed in philosophy, political science and bartitsu (you’ll have to look this one up to believe it). Yeah, my […]
Is Story Telling a Dying Art?
I love listening to stories. In life, you’re either a story teller or you’re not. Some people have the gift of the gab but I’m not one of them. Unfortunately, that talent is not in my kit bag but I wish it was. So instead, I happily listen to others recount their stories and try […]
The Age of Discontent
Yesterday I had lunch with a long-time friend. I’ve known Maria for over 25 years. We first met at university and shared many Biology 101 lectures and pracs but our paths separated when she chose to study the geological sciences. In that time however, we kept contact, we shared meals at the uni cafe and […]
The Downhill Run to Christmas
November is a funny time for me at work. Not funny as in ha ha – but funny is in ‘strange limbo time’. To say that 2013 was an utterly hectic, busy and ever-changing year is an understatement. This year, in this contract alone, I have experienced more emotional ups-and-downs, uncertainty, tension and anxieties than […]
Job Seeker Alarm Bells
I’m convinced that when we look for work through the normal means of recruiters and online job boards, we go about it the wrong way. This shouldn’t be the way to find work because it’s a waste of energy for everyone. Over many years in the workforce, I have been and seen many instances where […]
Trials and Tribulations with the Overhead Projector
I’m enjoying reading Donald Clark’s Plan B blog where he covers various instructional tools over the years. Last night, I read his post on, “Overhead Projectors: The Trapezoid of Boredom” and a flood of wonderful memories of my early days in Learning and Development. I had a love/hate relationship with these babies. The grey, heavy […]
A Turbulent Mind
Lately I’ve had a turbulent mind. At the LearnX Conference a few weeks ago, it was described as being in ‘hyper-attention’ but I believe that this not the right definition for my state. Wikipedia describes hyper attention as a “cognitive style due to a generational shift in youngsters, therefore, having a short attention span, needing […]
Can You Get Rid of Your To Do List?
We lead busy lives. So busy that many of us have ‘to do’ lists whether they are written on paper or on an application on your iPhone or iPad so when something unexpected comes up in our lives, the ‘to do’ list gets thrown out the window – or it grows! Last week, an Armani dressed surgeon […]