And not too soon either! I work three days a week and at times I think that even that is too much. Of course, I jest. In all honesty, I don’t know why I didn’t just work part time for most of my life (then figured out a way to make some passive income or […]
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In The Office
Over the last couple of days, our leadership team who had arrived from the Netherlands to meet the Australians were in our Melbourne office. I decided to go in and work from the office to meet them and also see more of the Melbourne colleagues whom I’ve never met. To be fair though, I had […]
Three Screens
Many years ago now, when I was in the military and based in Canberra, we were required to carry out Officer of the Day (although they called them Duty Officer because it was a rotation with all three services) out at Navy Office HQ. As Duty Officer, you had to stay there overnight and be […]
We Wrote a Book
Our second book is now available through Amazon Kindle. This one is a little bit different to our first book which was called Microsoft Teams: A Manager’s Guide to Communication, Collaboration and Co-ordination. This first book provided some ways for teams to be able to use a framework that helped support these. We had received […]
Redundancy
Many years ago when I was in the corporate world, my nickname used to be the “Black Cloud”. It wasn’t because I was a sorry sod (I was upbeat and enthusiastic), it was because every time I joined a company, within a year of being there, my department or team was restructured and ultimately, made […]
Books, Bootcut & Bubble Tea
Just home from a lovely day out. Today was our Book Club Day. I was invited to join my good friend Jasmine’s book club. A club she started with a few of her girlfriends whom she has worked with or connected over interests. The book we discussed today was Radical Candor by Kim Scott and […]
Not Sharing
I wanted to start an experiment this year and so far, so good but it’s been difficult for me at times. ? Many people know me as someone who shows and shares her work and learning. I’m pretty open about things that I’m learning about, share resources, interact in online conversations, connect people to other […]
Meta Verse Mumblings
I’m putting it out there, I’m not a fan of the meta verse. Before you say, Helen, you luddite. You haven’t even given it a CHANCE! Have you even USED Virtual Reality? Have you ever PLAYED a VR game? Have you ever made some kind of EFFORT to even UNDERSTAND the value and benefits of […]
Struggling Through Certain Books
‘If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.’ Just about every parent I’ve been reading a book as part of a book club by Kim Scott called Radical Candor: Be a Kick Ass Boss without Losing Your Humanity and admittedly, I’m really struggling to get through this book. I’ve read […]
My Notion of Microsoft Loop
Things at the beginning of the work year are always a little bit quiet until people get back from holidays and commence projects for the upcoming months. As such, it’s always the “calm before the storm”. So what I have been doing is catching up with all the Microsoft changes and using this quiet time […]
Smarter Note Taking
First book I read in 2022 on my new Kindle (a nice gift from Santa, thank you very much) was How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens who also has a great website Take Smart Notes. Why Did I Choose This Book? Some time back in early 2021, I started on the journey of […]
Creative Challenge – Day 21
I am doing Meredith Lewis daily creative prompt challenge for the month of December. Today she encourages us to answer the question: “How important are the following questions to you when you assign values of success or failure to your work?” Here goes. This is TOUGH to answer but these are questions I have often […]
Creative Challenge – Day 19
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompt challenge and for today’s activity, it’s to banish this ugly looking demon who has stifled and prevented my creative endeavours. Bloody hell it’s you again. You’ve reared your ugly head again just at the time when I thought of a new idea that I was getting […]
Creative Challenge – Day 18
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompt challenge and today it’s to face up to someone who has criticised or prevented us from our creative expressions. That was an easy challenge for today’s prompt because it’s so evident in my life that the turning point for me was early in my career when […]
Creative Challenge – Day 17
I am doing Meredith Lewis daily creative prompts for December and today’s challenge is to: List at least five different supportive people who can support you in your creative endeavours, whatever they may be. And if you can’t, list some ways in which you might find them. Wow, this is a tough one. I’ve long […]
Creative Challenge – Day 13
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) creative prompt challenge every day in December. So far these have been excellent to trigger some reflections but today’s one is something I’m unsure in expressing so openly for fear of what it may mean to my friends, work and networks. As a creative person, what is in your […]
Microsoft Teams Rooms: A Mini Masterclass
Yesterday I put the final touches to a mini-masterclass on Microsoft Teams Rooms. I had started this over a month ago when there was talk at work about how organisations now are preparing their people to return to the office. In particular, how to help organisations with their actual physical space requirements for hybrid work. […]
Resettlement Training
Many years ago when I was in the Navy, one of the supports the provided all military staff when they left the “Service” was what they called “Resettlement Training”. Every member was entitled to this as it consisted of a programmed series of guest speakers, events, counselling and other services related to resettling the defence […]
We Wrote Another Book on Gourmet Teamwork
A couple of years ago, the company I was working for at the time Adopt & Embrace, decided to write a book together. The book was called Adopt & Embrace Microsoft Teams: A Manager’s Guide to Communication, Collaboration and Co-ordination with Microsoft Teams. It was a wonderful experience to write a book with my colleagues […]
The Debrief Funnel of Experiences
Yesterday I finished watching the recording of the last episode of SAS Australia which so happens to be one of my favourite shows on television. I wrote my reasons why in this post titled: Survival Training. In the last episode, they brought all the contestants back again for the debrief and it reminded me of […]