You may or may not be aware that I’m a roving reporter for LearningNow TV. I was kindly asked by Colin Steed (@ColinSteed) and Nigel Paine (@ebase) some time ago to provide short reports to this live internet television channel dedicated to people in the Learning and Development in large and small organisations. At the […]
Seeking Feedback
Okay, everyone you can relax. This is NOT a post about Snapchat. (That’ll be the next post). I just wanted to share with you a short blog post. Yes you read right. Short. (It’s not lost on me that I’ve wasted an additional 39 words to get to this point…I just can’t do short!) Well […]
Learning and Working Together in an Intergenerational Film Crew
Many of you may already know that this year, I took part in an Intergenerational Film Project that was sponsored and supported by our local government, the City of Kingston as a community service project. I wrote about it in my posts titled the Benefits of Working With Different Generations and How Working Out Loud Inspires […]
Interview with Kim Goodwin from Craft Victoria
You may or may not be aware that I’m a roving reporter for LearningNow TV. I was kindly asked by Colin Steed (@ColinSteed) and Nigel Paine (@ebase) some time ago to provide short reports to this live internet television channel dedicated to people in the Learning and Development in large and small organisations. Last month, […]
Creating a Community Managers Program
For the last two weeks, I’ve been head down tapping away on my keyboard creating a Community Managers Program for a client’s Learning and Development team. Although I cannot share the details of how I created this or what elements I used to do so in the blog due to confidentiality, it’s been an opportunity […]
Jay Cross Memorial Award
Imagine my surprise this week when I heard that I was awarded the inaugural Jay Cross Memorial Award from the Internet Time Alliance. You know when someone tells you something so unbelievable that it takes a few seconds to register before the penny drops? Well that was me this week. I was soon overwhelmed (in a positive […]
Share How You Work Out Loud and Win Free Tickets
Here’s a chance for you to share how you work and loud and you may win a free ticket to an upcoming online virtual event. (Yay! Freebies!) What is this event? Well it’s called Immersion (#LDImmersion) and eight speakers will share their ideas on how to inspire social learning and collaboration in your workplace. Hosted by Karen […]
How Do We Work Together?
One of the questions I get asked often by people looking to employ my services is, “How do we work together?” So I thought I’d share my answer here. One of the difficult things I’ve gone through in the last two years as an independent consultant is exactly defining the one thing that I most […]
Co-Working with Business Addicts
Before you ask me, “Helen are you a Business Addict?” let me quickly add, “no, no I’m not.” [Shock, horror!] Instead, you can call me an “Experience Hunter”. Hope I haven’t burst some image you had of me about some hard core Gordon Gecko business person, walking the streets, closing deals and hustling for the […]
Exploring the World Of Learning Technologies
Some time ago, Trent Rosen (@TrentRosen) invited me to be a member of a panel on Exploring the World of Learning Technologies at his Melbourne event held on Wednesday 3rd May. Trent runs these events in Sydney and Melbourne for people in the Learning and Development profession to learn and meet with other learning practitioners. Delivered […]
Benefits of Working With Different Generations
What are the benefits of working with different generations? Well, I found out the answer last Tuesday night and I suspect, more of the answer will be revealed over the next six weeks. Many of those who read this blog know that I was recently selected to be a member of a local council’s Intergenerational […]
Visit to SensiLab
Last Thursday night, I had a visit to SensiLab. Opened in May 2015, SensiLab is a research hub that enables researchers and industry to collaborate on new technologies that have business applications. The idea of SensiLab was to bring together ‘anti-disciplinary’ teams to perform research that cannot be performed by a single discipline alone. For example, […]
Two Conferences in Three Days & One TPS Report
Last week I attended two conferences (well, one expo and one conference) in three days. On Tuesday 19 April, I went along to the Connect Expo at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre to check out the latest in business, technology and innovation. There were over 200 stalls and they expected over 5000 visitors to […]
Finding Your Own Way in A Digital Blizzard
Finding Your Way In a Digital Blizzard As many of my friends know, I’m a great fan of the series Vikings. Although much of the show is produced so that it has mass audience appeal, it does have some historical inaccuracies. Nevertheless it makes for wonderful viewing where I imagine the harsh life of these Norsemen. In the first series the […]
Why You Should Share Your Work
Many of you may be aware that I’m a fan of the work of Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer). It was only recently at the Pivot Summit in Geelong that I had been made aware of his work and I signed up to follow his Facebook page. Robert Scoble used to work at Rackspace as their futurist. Much […]
Auditors are Not Boring
Myth busted – Auditors are not boring! I thought I’d put it out there so that we can start this blog post on a positive note and dispel that stereotype once and for all. This week I had an opportunity to present two sessions at SOPAC 2016. The first session was How to Build Your […]
Change Without Fear
Can you change without fear? It seems like I’ve been doing a lot of fighting…and I’m tired. Last week I attended the Bayside Business Breakfast. The Bayside Council runs various business networking events for small business owners. These vary from after work ‘meet and mingle’ events, business book club, workshops, seminars and a popular breakfasts […]
Auditors are Not “Men In Black”
In March, I will be presenting at SOPAC 2016. SOPAC is a national four day conference held by the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and let’s just say… I can’t wait to attend because these people will expose me to an entirely different world of new insights and perspectives. How exciting! I was kindly invited […]
How to Work Out Loud at Your Next Conference
Last year I submitted an article for the Training & Development magazine published by the Australian Institute of Training and Development called How to Work Out Loud at Your Next Conference. What is working out loud? Put simply it’s a practice of sharing your reflections, learning in networks. By openly contributing your ideas and your thinking […]
Have an iPhone, Will Vlog
By now many of you may have noticed my insane liking to vlogging. Ever since stumbling upon Casey Niestat’s Wildly Functional Studio video on YouTube, I have fallen for the idea of sharing the STORY behind our work and learning through video. It’s “working out loud” to some extent – namely, you’re sharing the process […]