I’m reading a book by Daniel Susskind called A World Without Work and it makes for some fascinating reading. Once I finish it and have a chance to put some thoughts on paper about it, I’ll share a video review on YouTube. This year I’ve been reflecting on a lot of things namely, trying to […]
Spaced Repetition in Learning
This year admittedly, I have focussed much of my time on learning new things. It was primarily because I had more time given that I work three days a week (personal choice for my mental health and wellbeing) which left me the other days to focus on everything else. Given that there wasn’t much going […]
iTalki – A Great App If You Need to Practice Speaking a Language
I have written a lot on Twitter about spending time learning French. This year, as part of a personal challenge (and also being in lockdown), I figured it was high time for me to get back into French with a vengeance. The last time I had any formal education was back in 1981-1985 so you […]
Time to Give Back To Your PLN
I don’t know about you but I felt that through the time of months of COVID isolation, I did more professional and personal development than I have ever done before. Not to make light of the situation that many find now find themselves in, I have mentioned that I am one of the lucky ones […]
Learning Day
Yesterday we had our Learning Day at the company I work for, Adopt & Embrace. We value personal and professional learning and as such we dedicate four full days every year to this. We can set aside our work and our client work (if not urgent), to focus on all aspects of our mandatory compliance, […]
Creating My Daily Stories Old School
This morning I decided to do my “work out loud” story using my phone camera and video editing software on my phone rather than using Instagram Stories (or in the past, I used Snapchat stories). The reason is that as I have an old phone (iPhone 6), Instagram is now becoming glitchy on it and […]
Resources I Use to Learn French
Many people on Twitter have asked me what resources I’ve been using to learn French recently. Others have also shared their own resources and apps they use to learn a language. I marvel at the huge amount of resources we have available – mostly free and readily available to learn a language. I have written […]
How to Prepare Yourself for a Future of Learning
Yesterday I had a lot of fun being part of Table Talks for Microsoft Ignite. Table Talks are 30 minute Teams Meetings that simulate the ’round the table’ talks we have at conferences. A group of us Mathew, Megan, Pradeep and Renganathan worked together to devise a high level outline of what we wanted to […]
Table Talks at Microsoft Ignite
Next week I’ll be participating in Microsoft Ignite as part of a group moderating two Table Talks. How to Prepare Yourself for a Future of Learning Working from Home: How Are People Doing It? Microsoft Ignite is one of the largest technology conferences in the world and last year I had the opportunity to be […]
Learning Is a Mindset
This week I reflected on an event that made me feel very uncomfortable but in hindsight, my mind made it into a mountain than a molehill it was. I have been learning French for a while now and doing it in my own way through creating my own personal learning plan which I have blogged […]
Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights – Book Notes
Why did I read this book? Gifted book Saw people talking about it on my Twitter timeline People rave about this book and wanted to see what the fuss was about. Initial Thoughts Entirely all story based from current and historical stories of advances in different fields from politics, history, medicine, police, finance. First story […]
Reflections About Personal Learning This Week – 3 May 2020
Beside my desk at home, I have a list of questions that were created by Kenneth Mikkelsen who wrote the post on The Best Leaders are Constant Learners. Every week, I glance over to it and make a mental note to use it as a means of self reflection for the week. After all, I […]
Frequently Asked Questions I Get About Microsoft Teams
I was being asked similar questions about the use of Microsoft Teams for collaboration and remote working so I decided to collect all the questions and create a resource for answers in the Wakelet. I’m blown away with the massive response to this collection. Thank YOU! Sometimes you just never know if what you share […]
Learning Microsoft Power Automate
One of the Microsoft products I wanted to learn more about was Power Automate which used to be called “Microsoft Flow”. It’s the equivalent of If This Then That or Zapier that allows for workflows to be automated. Sometimes I found myself doing repeated tasks online and I figured, why shouldn’t I just automate them […]
Microsoft Cortex Resources
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Answers to Questions about Microsoft Teams
Create Your Own Personal Learning Plan for Isolation
I know that many of us are now self-isolating and working from home. Many are not used to this situation at all as they grapple with a new world order, the kids at home from school and working from home. If there was a time for planning, co-ordination and communication with family members it would […]
Are Competency Frameworks A Thing Anymore?
Back when I was working in corporate learning and development, when the mere mention of the two words “competency frameworks” in any team meeting, there was an audible groan. My experience of these have always been negative. Although I’ve never been involved in creating one, it seemed that I was always in departments that had […]
Dedicate Time For Self-Driven Personal Learning At Work
One of the days that I look forward to at the company I work at Adopt and Embrace is that we have dedicated “Learning Days” every quarter set aside where the entire day is spent on self-driven learning. During Learning Days, we are free to spend the entire day learning what we want as long […]