Although this is not a definition I looked up anywhere but basing it on my own understanding and my own experience of it, I would say lifelong learning is the practice of continuing learning through your entire life. It’s not entangled with the trivialities of the questions of ‘what’, ‘how’ and even ‘who’ is responsible. […]
Foster & Build Lifelong Learning Practices in Your Day-to-Day Job
I’m excited to announce that our work at Adopt & Embrace will have a new book out some time in the new year that will be slightly different to our first published book called Microsoft Team: A Manager’s Guide to Communication, Collaboration and Co-ordination with Microsoft Teams. Although it will be a surprise, the focus […]
Lifelong Learning as a Human Right
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 […]
How Effective Are Newsletters as Personal Learning Resources?
A couple of days ago, Ramses Oudt @rroudt tweeted an excellent question on Twitter that generated a discussion concerning who writes newsletters focussed on learning how to learn. You can see the thread here which has some recommendations although I might add that many of them aren’t about tips, techniques and strategies for learning how […]
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 […]
Taking Charge of Your Own Development – Podcasts & Interviews
Recently there’s been an interest in people wanting to know how to get more creative or be inspired to take charge of their own professional and personal development and learning. This is something that I love to share my own experience but rather than present any formulaic templates and plans for how you can do […]
Amsterdam Meet Up on Saturday 23 June 2018 at 6pm Delirium Cafe
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Create Your Own Personal Learning Plan
How do you create your own personal learning plan? Some time ago, I was looking at ways to be more productive in my work and learning; and one way I did this was to list down all the various tasks I needed to complete during the week. Many of my tasks were simple To Do […]
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 […]
Return to Roots
For a while now, I’ve been contemplating a return to roots. In the last few months from the tail end of annus horribilis that was 2017 to now, a series of events – mainly due to conversations and collaborations with people outside my field of corporate learning and development, has made me reflect on the […]