For a long time now, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and soul searching about my life. I’m not going to lie that going my own way as an independent consultant was one of the best things I’ve done but also one of the most incredibly painful and expensive wake-up calls. Admittedly, I failed. […]
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The Triptych of the Future of Work
For some strange reason, the word ‘Triptych” keeps coming up in my world. It comes from two Greek words – tri (meaning three) and ptysso (an ancient greek word for fold or drape – trust me I had to look that one up). A triptych is an art term that is a painting on three […]
Learning in the Modern Workplace
In my recent blog post titled Drawing as Thinking…and a Treasure Map about #MadMapMarch, I wrote how I delved into some journal articles that explained the benefits of using different ways to express ourselves as a challenge to the way we think. In this case, it was comic books. That is, drawing our thoughts in a comic book format […]
Shocking The System to Change Behaviour
Recently I’ve been catching up with people who I used to work with, as well as people from my extended social networks for a meal, coffee or virtually. I’ve noticed my networks now are reaching out for more one-on-one contact as opposed to making our communication public and open in social media. I like this […]
Some Thoughts on the Microsoft Workplace Innovation Summit and Learning and Development
Okay, I’m not going to lie but some of the best examples of teamwork I’ve been in my life the days was when I worked in Defence. Somehow working under duress, pressure and stressful situations in environments away from home, family and friends meant you had to put personal issues and hangups aside for the […]
Weekly Rapts
Welcome to Weekly Rapts. Every week I come across some exceptional articles, books, videos, tweets and other stuff that captures my attention and inspires me to action which could be to write about a blog post; have a conversation about it with someone; create something from it; escape down a rabbit warren to learn more […]
Dealing with FOMO
Recently I deleted all social media off my phone in an effort to reclaim my focus and attention. I was using my phone too much during the day and evening and when I wasn’t, I was thinking about it. I use my phone for not only consuming information and surfing the internet but also creating […]
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 […]
Turning 50 & Learning New Things
Over my short holiday break, I had a lot of time to reflect on a lot of things. The reason for the holiday was that it was a celebration of my 50th birthday. Last year, my husband asked me what I wanted to do for this special birthday and at the time, I dabbled with […]
Reclaiming Attention and Focus
So a few days back I shared on Twitter that I’ve deleted all social media apps and direct messaging apps off my phone. Over the holidays in Hawaii, I had a lot of thinking time while lounging around on the balcony of my cabin on the cruise (as you do) and decided that my attention […]
How Do You Handle Distractions?
How do you handle distractions in the workplace? I work 3 days per week. It means I’ve to set boundaries during busy times to get thru client work. It means prioritising client/paid work first and ”going dark” for some hours during the day to get through what I need to get done. This post was […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning March 2019
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for March 2019. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day. It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]
Is Social Media Giving You Value?
Is social media giving you value? This is a question that has been floating around in my head this year. Ever since reducing my time on it, not because of anything as exotic as “digital detoxing” or anger over how our private data is used by companies like Facebook, I have started to question what […]
Slow Reading
I have been tweeting for a while about my need to slow down my mind because I felt scattered over the last year or so. It was my fault mainly because I struggled to keep up with doing all the things I felt I needed to do. I also had FOMO if I wasn’t on […]
What I’ve Been Reading This Week – Friday 29 March 2019
Some years ago, every week I listed what I was reading, learning, doing. I have no idea why I stopped – I guess life got in the way. This year, I’ve been remiss with my blog writing and I think it’s because I’ve been spending my time either (a) working or (b) doing other stuff […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning January 2019
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for January 2019. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day. It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning February 2019
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for February 2019. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day. It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]
Changing My Modus Operandi
This year I’ve changed my modus operandi. It seemed to have just happened of its own accord but I think my deep dive into classics and fiction reading, warm long summer days and my bullshit detector going on overdrive have something to do with it. Since starting the new year, I’ve decided to do things […]
Frank Lloyd Wright and Envy
Yesterday I was watching a Snap story from one of the people I follow on Snapchat and he was in Arizona at Taliesin West, the site of America’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright had his home and which is now a school of architecture. I’ve always been fascinated with architecture and at one stage […]
Learning Through Making
On Friday, I headed over to my parents and walked into my father’s art studio to check out what he was up to. He had been watching YouTube videos on how to do book binding and was on a roll with creating these for himself. As an artist, he had a lot of loose leaf […]