When was the last time you heard that you shouldn’t be chasing the shiny and the new or risk your time, money and sanity with new fads? Recently I read Steve Wheeler’s post on Binge Learning where he recounted the story of his obsession with academic studies. The “compelling nature of the content I was […]
4 Ways To Integrate Learning into the Workplace
I recently wrote a blog post on How to Deal with People Who Have No Time to Learn New Things at Work and this is a continuation of that post where I share four ways on how to integrate learning into the workplace. There are so many more – but let’s start with four for now. […]
How to Deal with People Who Have No Time to Learn New Things At Work
Say what? No time to learn? That’s like saying you don’t want to be up to speed with what’s happening in your industry, profession or even your customer market – the same one you’re servicing but I get it. Work is busy. People are busy. You’re busy. When your priority is to get through emails, […]
How You Learn in the Real World
When Arun Pradhan asked us how we learn in the real world, the first thing I did was look at what I was holding in my hand. My phone. I was reading his article on my smartphone so I bookmarked it as a mental note to respond to the four questions he asked us to […]
Learning & Development Need To Get their Groove Back
For a while now, I’ve been thinking that teams in corporate Australia Learning and Development need to get their groove back. And in a big way. So much so, something needs to happen to get a massive dose of inspiration and excitement back into this area because the more I’m working and talking with other […]
Is Instructional Design Dead?
Is Instructional Design Dead was recently published (in an edited format) in the Training Journal on 10th June 2016. So here’s the full post including my personal reflections (which weren’t in the original Training Journal article). Judging by the amount of articles on the internet written by people who have worked, or are working in […]
The Value of Networking for Learning and Development
What’s The Value of Networking for Learning and Development? This post was recently published in the Training Journal on 9 March 2016 There is much discussion online about the future of Learning and Development and how teams can support their workforce to build capability during a time of constant change and volatility. Yet, how much […]
Practices That Don’t Serve Our Clients
Ever since I can remember, every role I’ve had within corporate Learning and Development teams has involved some element of systematising an internal process such as capturing the client enquiry through to servicing the client. These processes were usually focussed inward towards the L&D department as a way to explain our value by measuring our activity. They were […]
How Working, Connecting and Learning Is Like Driving a Car
Last week I had an opportunity to work with Michelle Ockers who had travelled down from Sydney for work. We caught up at the co-working space at the NAB Village to go through some final editing to four of the modules of the Work, Connect and Learn Program. The Work, Connect and Learn Program is a social learning guided […]
How to Use Social Tools To Create Learning Experiences
Last week I delivered a webinar for a public service organisation who requested a presentation to their Learning and Development teams on how to use social tools to create learning experiences. I think it went well. (At least, I hope it did! The organiser did say that the attendees were madly scribbling notes and I did get […]
The Training Function of 2014
This month it was a pleasure to collaborate with Sunder, a member of my own personal learning network. In the spirit of open discussion and shared learning, we wrote about our experience, knowledge and observations of working in large organisational learning teams to write a joint blog post on what we believe we will see […]
How Do We Enforce Independence in Workplace Learning?
I am in the second week of Dave Cormier’s Rhizomatic Learning cMOOC and admittedly, I was struggling there for a while. The subject matter of week one ‘Cheating as Learning‘ became an academic, intellectual and conceptual discussion between participants. I grappled how we could apply cheating as learning within the context of the corporate work environment […]
Learn@Work Conference
Rather than write a blog post I’m being lazy), I thought I’d Storify the tweets and include my reflections within them…. Day 1: Monday 11 November 2013 Day 2: Tuesday 12 November 2013
Community Learning Programs in Melbourne
Two nights ago after work, I wandered over to the State Library of Victoria, a place I hadn’t visited for some years. It was looking a bit worse for wear in my opinion or maybe I was just becoming a grumpy old woman for noticing the dirt and rubbish that side of town. It was […]
One Small Step for Us, One Large Step for our Team
This week we had our People Day. Over 400 people across Australia in the Human Resource function travelled to Melbourne to gather and hear our Leadership Team talk about the challenges of the future and how we can work together to face them. Although I will not go into detail here about what was covered, […]
LearnX Day 2 My New Source of Truth Dynamic Video Solutions
Bobby Sharma, Training Specialist from Commonwealth Bank talked about Dynamic Video Solutions and how they implemented it into the bank in particularly around business projects. The CBA has 52000 employees with a domestic and international presence. The Dynamic Video Solution (DVS) was brought in as a meansto train wide dispersed group of contractors who need […]
LearnX 2013 Strategies for Applying the Flipped Classroom Model
Bob Lee and Jim Recker spoke on the Strategies for the Flipped Classroom Model for Business Learning at LearnX through a live online event on Go To Meeting so that we could see it in action…(although they did mention it was ironic that they were lecturing to us via this medium….) “Business learning has replicated […]
LearnX 2013 Strategies for Applying the Flipped Classroom Model
Bob Lee and Jim Recker spoke on the Strategies for the Flipped Classroom Model for Business Learning at LearnX through a live online event on Go To Meeting so that we could see it in action…(although they did mention it was ironic that they were lecturing to us via this medium….) “Business learning has replicated […]
LearnX 2013
It’s not everyday that you get the opportunity to go to a learning conference with your colleagues. I jumped at the chance when I was asked as they were going to receive an award for the best accessible eLearn course at LearnX. As it was in Sydney, a city I don’t like to visit often, […]
Sometimes You Just Need to Meet Your PLN Face-to-Face
I’m back! Did you miss me? After a 5 week holiday with my husband @TigerTex1 we are now back home, over the jet lag and begrudgingly settled into our routine of work and home. We did a Trafalgar guided tour of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland. We saw beautiful countryside and rugged coastlines. […]