February has been a busy month for me. Hectic actually. Besides the client work, I explored other contracts (inside and outside of my current organisation), as well as continued my professional development through various MOOCs and the Social Learning Centre UK. What I’ve noticed is I prefer my learning to have some immediate application to […]
How to Promote Twitter for Professional Development to Your Colleagues and Other Stuff
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged and I’ve missed it. Now that my husband is out in town at the Linkin Park and Stone Sour concert, it was an opportune time to sit at my computer and finally get my thoughts down. I haven’t had time to reflect much on my work recently as […]
The Move from Face-to-Face to Online Learning
Lately there’s been a real push at work to consider alternatives to delivering facilitator-led programs into online formats. There’s various reasons for doing so but the main ones are to make our content accessible to our interstate colleagues. Another reason is that an impending move to new building does not guarantee that we’ll have our […]
New Ways of Looking at Old Methods
Last week at our fortnightly Learning and Development team meeting – the last one for the year, we had one of the more robust team discussion we’ve had in many months. The aim of our meetings are to update what everyone is working on and as we are a relatively new team, to communicate what […]
My Day in 10 Pics – or 7…
Two nights ago while reclined in the sofa chair, I surfed my tweets (as you do) and saw that @AndrewJacobsLD mentioned #mydayin10pics and I thought, “what a brilliant idea, I’m going to do that myself tomorrow!” Although I like photography, I don’t claim to be a good photographer. Also, I’m not one of those people […]
Flexi Desking Kerfuffles…
Today’s significant adventure at work was the move to get everyone to flexi-desk. I recall a few years back that it was impossible to obtain permission to work from home. It was treated with suspicion, colleagues would glare at your audacity for even asking and there was always some snide comment from someone, “sure, yeah […]
Are We Sharing Too Much?
Today I had a good day despite not winning last night’s $100 million lottery or picking the winning horse at the Melbourne Cup (the race that stops our nation). I met a Twitter follower and made a new friend one who shares the same passion and the same frustrations in Learning and Development. In my […]
Big Data, Shig Shata. But What Does It Mean for Us?
In the lead up to Melbourne Cup, the “race that stops our nation”, one finds that the spring carnival is on the tip of everyone’s lips. If you’re not talking about the races, the fashions, the celebrities flying out to our shores, then you’re talking about the fluctuating weather. One day it’s a sunny 31 degrees, […]
Coaching Framework To Be Rolled Out Across Organisation
For previous story see here. Today I visited the corporate headquarters of the company I work for to discuss my new coaching framework. I had developed a ‘specialist coaching’ framework and a blended learning program that gives subject matter experts to skills to transfer learning on-the-job without the need for any classroom training. I came […]
When Learners Fly the Coop
For the last few months I have been working with a business team in my company responsible for their cross-specialisation as part of a cultural transformation change initiative. When I first started working with them, the team only had two subject matter experts who had been in the organisation for some years and knew all […]
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 […]
Right Now! CRM In the Cloud…
I’m not endorsing this product nor paid to write about it – I’m simply blogging my own views. Today we had a demonstration of a new product implemented in our organisation and I was impressed. We were told that it was an Oracle product and having had experience with Oracle in the past (namely their […]
Can Someone Turn Off Email, Please?
(I’m not endorsing any product mentioned here today – purely my own views) My usual Sunday morning routine is to get up nice and early, make myself a cup of tea and a bowl of cereal and then sit quietly at the dining room table surfing through my tweets on my iPhone. This morning I […]
You say Tomato and I say Tomatoe…
Yesterday started well. Any day when I’m working from home to catch up with my design and development work (as my time at work is taken up by unproductive meetings and various interruptions) is good. However this feeling was short-lived when I received a phone call from one of the business analysts whom I’m working […]
Personal Knowledge Management Workshop through Social Learning Centre UK
In September, I participated in the PKM Personal Knowledge Management Workshop through the Social Learning Centre, UK. On the site above, it defined Personal Knowledge Management as a “set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world & work more effectively.” The online workshop was moderated by Harold Jarche who provided […]
My Top 10 Tools for Learning
Everyone’s eagerly awaiting for Jane Hart from the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies to publish her Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 (see 2011’s list here) and voting will close soon. I stumbled upon this list and the heavens opened, the bright light shone down and illuminated my darkened mind for the first time. This was exactly […]
Different Perspectives of Learning by all the Players
This year has been an immense journey of personal and professional development for me. Coupled with a challenging project environment which saw me part of a Learning and Development team of 11 people on a cultural transformation program that had to rapidly develop learning solutions within serious time constraints, we were put through an organisational restructure. The […]
Meeting my Online Community Service Network Face-to-Face for the First Time
For those of you who know me, I have a personal blog and a professional blog and decided a long time ago to keep them both separated. After all, do you really want to learn of my interests and ramblings that aren’t related to learning? Do you really want to know about my community service […]
What I Learned about Social Learning came from….Knitters
Many of us have interests and hobbies that make us use our hands and inspire creativity and satisfaction from having made something from scratch. Whether it’s cooking, woodwork or painting, there’s a feeling that cannot be replicated by any office job. For me, it’s knitting. I’ve been knitting for over 35 years having started the […]
An Old Coaching Framework Comes Good In a New World…Part 3
Late last week I visited the team that I coached the Job Instruction technique to observe them in practice. It was the first time the subject matter expert coaches were to coach their team members on the new processes (after having practiced it amongst themselves). I kept an open mind about what was going to […]