Well the first day of International Work Out Loud Day is nearly over. I started my week day in a way that I always do – by an hour of walking listening to business related podcasts. This morning I listened to Chris Ducker’s The New Business Podcast – Startup and Small Business Marketing NBP105 on […]
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Learning and Relearning with New Tools
Last week, I was one of the many people who took advantage of the government’s tax break advantage for small business and decided to upgrade my computer and phone. I had been thinking of doing this for a while as I thought it was time to be seen as a bit more ‘modern’ despite my […]
Lawyers and Libraries
Yesterday I created another vlog. I travelled into a suburb of Melbourne called Box Hill to go and get some legal advice. It was the first time in my life that I had need of a solicitor and they came highly recommended. (I posted the question on Facebook and two of my good friends – […]
My Work Out Loud Day Vlog Number 3
I am taking a liking to vlogging but let’s just say that it’s dangerous. Why? Blogging and vlogging require different thought processes. While one is quite reflective, mulling over what I’m going to write and how to express my thoughts into coherent sentences to make sense of the thing that I’m grappling with, vlogging is an […]
Do As I Say, Not As I Do Doesn’t Cut It With Social
Lately, everything I seem to be reading on Twitter and blogs seem to be about social or peer-to-peer learning. Okay, I may be exaggerating – not everything – but consider that only one year ago in Australia, the term was relatively new and not widely mentioned at learning and development gatherings and conferences. All of […]
How To Make More Time In Your Day
Sorry you can’t. I led you here to this blog post under false pretense. We all have 24 hours per day. That’s it. No more, no less. You can stop reading here if you like. Sorry to disappoint… Tomorrow I’ll be flying up to Sydney to attend the Australian Institute of Training and Development National […]
Do You Work Out Loud?
Ever since stumbling upon Casey Niestat’s vlogs, something has just ‘switched on’ in my mind and I’ve been inspired. In particular, the video of his Wildly Functional Studio made me think about my own work, workplace and working out loud. Watch his video first and then come back to this blog… Well, what did you think? Did […]
Simulating Real Life Workplace Experiences
A couple of weeks ago, I had organised a Third Place visit to go and see the Building Leadership Simulation Centre in South Melbourne. It was the first time I had organised a visit to a training facility with Third Place (our social networking and co-working group) and once I advertised the tour on Meetup, […]
We Need the FBI In Our Lives
Sometimes I’m embarrassed to admit it but I do find all things finance and accounting quite boring. There’s a part of me that as someone who came from a learning and development background, this was one area I really never connected with my business clients when I should have. I knew it then and I know […]
March – A Month of New Clients…and a Baby
Well, what a month! It’s been crazy hectic – but a lot of fun! It’s been about new client work which explains the lack of blog posts… No, I didn’t have a baby but read on. What Have I Been Working On? My biggest achievement was completing the Work, Connect and Learn Program, a guided […]
February – Getting Down to Business
Continuing with my new end of month blog post of what I have been doing, February was all about “Getting Down to Business!” What Have I Been Working On? First and foremost was rolling out Coca Cola Amatil’s Work, Connect and Learn Program (a guided social learning program). I have been actively ‘working out loud’ […]
How to Broaden Your Networks Into New Markets
Yesterday I attended the Melbourne Business Awards (South East Region) Breakfast event at the lovely Woodlands Golf Course. Obviously any event at a golf course is a winner for me so this was no different. John Walls, Group Managing Director from Acquire Learning was the guest speaker who presented on how education providers and employers can effectively […]
The Importance of Having a Plan as a Freelancer
I’ve been freelancing now for eight months and it’s been an interesting journey. By no means did I think the move from full-time salaried employment to one where you didn’t know where the next job was coming from was going to be easy. I anticipated that I was going to experience the full range of emotions. Elation […]
First Reflections of a Social Learning Program
Okay, in the spirit of trying something different, rather than blog my reflections, I’ll record them. One of my goals for 2015 was to experiment more with video – but don’t get ahead of yourselves thinking that I’m going to be the next Oliver Stone or something like that. If anything, I’m just dabbling with the […]
The Newest Group of Friends in the Oldest Pub in Melbourne
Last night a large group of members from Third Place met at the Duke of Wellington pub in Melbourne for dinner and a catch up. Third Place is a social networking, learning and co-working group I founded in September 2013 for anyone interested in learning regardless of the industry or profession they are from. There […]
January – A Month of Books & Back Pain
What I have Been Working On? My main achievement was completing the development of 4 modules of the Work, Connect and Learn Program for Coca Cola Amatil. This took me over 8 weeks to complete with various edits and version controls as well as exploring and learning more about SharePoint 2013 and Lync. This project […]
What’s Your 100 Year Vision?
This year I started a 12 month business coaching development program through David Guest Business Coaching Solutions. I figured after 24 years of working for someone else, now as a freelancer, it was time to invest in personal development that took me out of my comfort zone. If freelancing wasn’t risky enough, I needed to have someone […]
In the end, they’re just tools…
The last few weeks have been busy as the silly season wound down and the focus was to get back to work and look forward to 2015. I’ve been mindful that I haven’t been blogging as frequently and instead, my time being taken up with client work, catching up with reading of articles on the […]
Part 3 of a Social Onboarding Case Study
Over the last year, I have been writing a case study of an Onboarding Program I developed for a financial service organisation Retail Store Managers (Branch Managers) in 2014. The onboarding program used a blended learning approach that had different audiences; specific learning, communication and change management needs as well as delivered the program and associated […]
The Giving of Freedom
A story 8 days ago: It was the last working week for the year, and I was about to leave the house for a hectic day of deadlines. I’d planned to go in earlier than usual to get a head start on things I had to do. But…just as I was about to head out the […]