Yesterday I conducted a webinar on “Getting Started in Twitter” for the VET Development Centre. The centre provides and supports the professional and educational development of vocational trainers, managers and staff through access to events, seminars, conferences and webinars. You can see some of the offerings in their Events Calendar. I was first introduced to the VET Development Centre […]
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Haven’t Met Your Online Buddies? Hang Out With Them!
Last Wednesday night, I organised a Google Hangout for Third Place. For those who aren’t aware, I created Third Place, a meetup group for anyone interested in learning, performance and development across all fields. What started out as meetups in Melbourne only are now in Sydney, Newcastle, Brisbane and Adelaide and all run by a […]
What Have I Been Up To This Week?
It’s been a ripper of a week. I was introduced to new ideas and discussions that got me excited so I thought I’d cover them off in one blog post although I could easily write a post about each interaction. Skype with @twofacedHR Lady Vanessa Wiltshire It seems awkward to write her Twitter handle (because she […]
What’s Your Niche?
People have been asking me ‘where to from here?’ and it’s an interesting question. There are so many opportunities and ideas to explore every time I meet new people who inspire me. These ideas then float around in my head and it’s hard to snatch at just one to see it through. It’s frustrating because my […]
How to Wrangle WordPress – Learning Out Loud
I’m always a bit anxious when I get onto my WordPress site to do some maintenance. Why? There’s a morbid fear that when I press, “Update Plugin” that I will lose the content of my blog. Years of writing, reflections and photos gone at the single click of a button. However, there’s a paradox to […]
Do you Learn or Experience Culture?
“The only thing worse than learning from experience is not learning from experience.” – Unknown I’ve been in Waikiki for the last two weeks taking some time out for some rest and relaxation. Hawaii is our travel destination of choice for those times when we need to chill out and just enjoy lazy days of […]
How To Holiday Out Loud
For the last week, those who have been following me know that I have been on holiday in Hawaii. We came over here to attend a friend’s wedding but also use it as an opportunity to rest and relax. With only seven more working days of left in my contract before I embark a freelancing […]
For Every Vertical There is a Horizontal…
Many may have noticed a change in the types of tweets, blog posts and activities I have been writing and sharing over the last year moving away from a learning and development focus to an organisational focus. There’s no need to fear. It simply means that I have been trying to understand how what I do at […]
Where’s Your Third Place?
For a small group of Third Place members last Thursday, it was at the NAB Village. The NAB Village is a specifically designed co-working space for National Australia bank business customers to learn, work and connect. We were lucky enough to be invited to use this space for our meetup and marvelled at the collaborative spaces that allowed […]
How to Use Yammer to Capture Reflections of Programs or Events
With all this talk of ‘Show My Work’, I decided to go on another tangent (as I normally do) and show another’s work! Shock, horror! Rest assured, with full attribution and with a profusion of thanks and gratitude to my good friend and colleague Paul Batfay (@freefacilitator) who has kindly agreed for me to show HIS […]
Championing Change with Yammer
Over the last few weeks I have felt that I have left my ‘real blogging’ by the wayside. By that I mean I didn’t have any observations made from various activity, comments and experiences that made me sit up, think and reflect. That’s because I have been closed up in a small 1-person meeting room […]
What Have I Been Up To?
Well another quiet Sunday morning – my best time to learn, reflect and share what I’ve been doing in the last week. It’s been a while since my last blog post but that’s because my Onboarding & Role Based Learning program that I have been working on for new branch managers is being rolled out and […]
Are You Looking for Experts? They’re in Third Place
Last year was filled with wonderful opportunities where I met my personal learning network face-to-face none more so than my trip to the UK which cemented an idea in my head. That idea transpired into a meetup for Learning and Development professionals to meet informally, share their work and skills in a social setting usually […]
Using LinkedIn to Merge Your Internal and External Networks
At the end of June, my contract at the current organisation ends. After working there on two different contracts for the last couple of years, I have built up a great network of people with different skills across technology, banking, retail and support. However, I didn’t realise this until late but it dawned on me […]
Doesn’t Matter if You’re an Employee or a Penguin – It’s All About Taking Action
Earlier this month, an article on the ABC called out for knitters to knit jumpers for penguins affected by oil spills. Five days later, the Guardian posts another article, “Lay Down Your Needles, Knitters Are Covered For The Time Being” and stops the world in our penguin knitting frenzy. How did the world go so […]
Show Your Work: How to Design If You’re No Graphic Designer
One of the projects I’ve been working on for the last few months has been an Onboarding Program for our Retail business. In the near future, when the program has been implemented into the business, I will write it up as a case study as not only was it the result of some pressing business […]
What? You Don’t Do That? We Thought You Did….
Andrew Jacobs (@AndrewJacobsLD) wrote a blog post 50 Big Ideas to Change Learning and Development this week. Amusingly, about the same time as the Serious eLearning Manifesto was promoted. Although I haven’t fully explored the latter as I need to view the YouTube Google Hangout, Andrew’s blog post really hit the spot for me. He […]
Make Sure Yammer Doesn’t Turn Into a Ghost Town
Last week I wrote about a post about how I coached a colleague to use Yammer and explain its benefits on how it could increase her productivity and engagement in the workplace. This week the theme continued to be all about Yammer. I had many people asking me to learn more about it in particularly, […]
How Do You Explain Yammer?
Last week I was put through my paces at work. A colleague who I had worked with a couple of years ago to create Role Based Proficiency Pathways for the retail arm of her business came back from maternity leave and she sat next to me at work. We caught up with the “goss” and […]
Embracing Uncertainty…Awkward!
If I ever had a dollar every time I heard those two words. “We must embrace uncertainty!” “Embrace uncertainty – if there’s one thing that’s certain, it’s change!” “We must accept that this is the future – embrace uncertainty to survive!” “Helen, you don’t embrace uncertainty well do you?” *Yawn* I’m slightly behind the […]