Many of us have sideline projects and interests that capture our attention and engage our minds and our hearts. What if we could be the same with our day to day work? In this short video, I share a couple of my sideline projects that not only inspire me but have been CRITICAL in picking […]
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What Is Working Out Loud?
This week was Working Out Loud week again and I shared a few videos of what I have been doing (which you can see on these blog posts). I decided to revisit a video I did over a year ago because I had explained it perfectly while I was in my car. I thought I’d […]
Working at the Synchrotron
One of the things I do on a casual basis is temping for work and income. As you can understand, being an independent consultant is difficult and a struggle at the best of times. There comes a time when you have to bite the bullet and pick up casual work when you can get it. […]
Working Out Loud in Week 9
I am part of a Working Out Loud Circle hosted by Simon Fogg (@srjf) and we are currently in week 9. A Working Out Loud circle is a 12-week program and developed by John Stepper (@johnstepper). Participants meet online every week and go through a set of different activities and tasks to help them achieve […]
The Wonder of Working with Creative Teams
I’m working on a fake news channel on Snapchat and here I put some reflections down on the value I’m receiving from being part of this creative team. The Wonder of Creating with Teams This blog post by Helen Blunden was written in Melbourne, Australia and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Never […]
Working Out Loud Circle
I am part of my first ever Working Out Loud Circle this year hosted by Simon Fogg. It may be a surprise to many people that I have not been a member of a circle however, I have read John Stepper’s excellent book of the same name Working Out Loud along with sharing my work […]
What I Learned at VidCon
Now that I’ve had some time to sit and think, I’d like to share what I learned at VidCon. For those of you who don’t know, VidCon is the world’s largest conference for YouTubers and vloggers or as their website says, “For People Who Love Online Video”. I heard about VidCon through some people I follow on Snapchat. […]
Lessons From An Independent Consultant
All gifs in this post via GIPHY It’s hard to imagine that three years have already gone by since I left the corporate world to become an independent consultant. It has been one of the most transformative personal learning journeys for me in my life that’s seen me ride the peaks and troughs of consulting work. There […]
Make a Contribution While You Work Out Loud
Today is the third day of International Work Out Loud Week and it’s all about making a contribution. So for today’s challenge, my contribution will be to share my own story on Snapchat on how Working Out Loud has helped me in my own business so that it could open the conversation for others in their […]
Make New Connections While You Work Out Loud
Today is the second day of International Work Out Loud Week. Yesterday I shared my purpose for this week and that was to: Understand the value and benefit of working out loud to people outside organisations who are in their own business, freelancing or looking for employment. After all, we hear and read so much […]
Welcome to My Snapchat Channel
What is a Snapchat Channel? If you don’t already know, I’m on Snapchat. I started using this platform some time ago in an effort to understand what the fuss was about. I’ve been using it to share and show my work (and snippets of my knitting and the things that I enjoy) however, in the […]
A Few Things Corporate Bloggers Should Know
Last week I attended Australia’s largest and longest running blogging event called Problogger and I learned some valuable lessons. After hearing many presentations and speaking to the business bloggers there, I thought I’d share a few things corporate bloggers should know if they want to take their blogging OUTSIDE of their company in the future. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How Working Out Loud Inspires New Passions
A few weeks back I saw this Facebook advert in the newsfeed and immediately my curiosity was piqued. It made me think of how working out loud inspires new passions. Our local council was looking to sponsor budding film makers aged 14 to 90 to create short films related to intergenerational stories and themes taken […]
The Value of Networking for Learning and Development
What’s The Value of Networking for Learning and Development? This post was recently published in the Training Journal on 9 March 2016 There is much discussion online about the future of Learning and Development and how teams can support their workforce to build capability during a time of constant change and volatility. Yet, how much […]
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 […]
Social Learning Creates Confusion
SOCIAL LEARNING CREATES CONFUSION! It should be a headline shouldn’t it? If it were, I could picture the scene at a breakfast table as the reader, takes a sip of coffee from their cup, looks up from their smart device, tablet or newspaper and asks their partner… “Darling, what’s social learning?” What’s the bet that the […]
Future Skills Capability Consulting
Build A Strategy of Future Skills for Your Workforce Is your workforce ready with skills and capabilities that take them into the new world of work? Is your workforce comfortable with uncertainty and complexity? How do you encourage, inspire and promote continual learning and digital skills capability in the workplace? Are your teams effectively collaborating across […]