Last weekend, a small group of eight ladies from one of my Craft groups (I’m a member of two) hired out a beautiful house called The Retreat in Woodend, a delightful country town. Even though we meet weekly to share our knowledge and expertise in our respective crafts, we have these getaways to leave our […]
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What does L&D Need to Succeed in the 21st Century?
Last night I hurried back home from my weekly Thursday knit group to hear Donald Taylor (@DonaldHTaylor) talk about a topic near and dear to my heart. “What does L&D Need to Succeed in the 21st Century?” I’ve been in L&D for over 23 years but I have noticed that it’s only been in the […]
Are We Sharing Too Much?
Today I had a good day despite not winning last night’s $100 million lottery or picking the winning horse at the Melbourne Cup (the race that stops our nation). I met a Twitter follower and made a new friend one who shares the same passion and the same frustrations in Learning and Development. In my […]
Social Media for Professional Development
Recently I completed another workshop from Jane Hart’s Social Learning Centre called ‘Social Media for Professional Development’. As an avid user of social media for some years now, I was interested to do this workshop because there’s always something new you can pick up from the materials or participants experiences. The workshop delved straight into […]
Job Seeker Alarm Bells
I’m convinced that when we look for work through the normal means of recruiters and online job boards, we go about it the wrong way. This shouldn’t be the way to find work because it’s a waste of energy for everyone. Over many years in the workforce, I have been and seen many instances where […]
Can Someone Turn Off Email, Please?
(I’m not endorsing any product mentioned here today – purely my own views) My usual Sunday morning routine is to get up nice and early, make myself a cup of tea and a bowl of cereal and then sit quietly at the dining room table surfing through my tweets on my iPhone. This morning I […]
You say Tomato and I say Tomatoe…
Yesterday started well. Any day when I’m working from home to catch up with my design and development work (as my time at work is taken up by unproductive meetings and various interruptions) is good. However this feeling was short-lived when I received a phone call from one of the business analysts whom I’m working […]
Personal Knowledge Management Workshop through Social Learning Centre UK
In September, I participated in the PKM Personal Knowledge Management Workshop through the Social Learning Centre, UK. On the site above, it defined Personal Knowledge Management as a “set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world & work more effectively.” The online workshop was moderated by Harold Jarche who provided […]
My Top 10 Tools for Learning
Everyone’s eagerly awaiting for Jane Hart from the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies to publish her Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 (see 2011’s list here) and voting will close soon. I stumbled upon this list and the heavens opened, the bright light shone down and illuminated my darkened mind for the first time. This was exactly […]
Different Perspectives of Learning by all the Players
This year has been an immense journey of personal and professional development for me. Coupled with a challenging project environment which saw me part of a Learning and Development team of 11 people on a cultural transformation program that had to rapidly develop learning solutions within serious time constraints, we were put through an organisational restructure. The […]
What I Learned about Social Learning came from….Knitters
Many of us have interests and hobbies that make us use our hands and inspire creativity and satisfaction from having made something from scratch. Whether it’s cooking, woodwork or painting, there’s a feeling that cannot be replicated by any office job. For me, it’s knitting. I’ve been knitting for over 35 years having started the […]
Social Media Day Saturday 30 June 2012
Last weekend on Saturday 30 June, in about 481 cities around the world Social Media Day was celebrated. I partook in this “little” event and attended my first ever, Unconference. I really didn’t know what to expect as I parked the car in a tiny side street behind Richmond station and walked a short walk […]
What is the Instructional Designer Breed?
This question was posed to me last night by someone I had met at a social group. She was a recruiter and was responsible for sourcing instructional designers for a company and this was the first time she had been exposed to the “instructional designer”. What amused me about this question was its difficulty in […]
Is There any Agility in ADDIE?
I’m currently working as a member of the Learning and Development team in a transformational project in a major corporate in Australia. It is the first time that I have been involved to deliver learning solutions for a business project as my main experience has been with rolling out enterprise wide learning solutions without the […]
Book Review: Preparing Instructional Objectives: A Critical Tool in the Development of Effective Instruction by Robert Mager
Obviously I am taking my new year resolution to read all my reference books in my well-stocked library at home and write a review on each of them seriously. One of the most critical skills for an instructional developer to have is to write effective instructional objectives. I don’t know about you, but I’ve lost count […]
Book Review: Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning by Jane Bozarth
Are you a learning and development professional who is hearing more about social media lately and quietly wondering how it will affect your role? Are you an instructional designer who believes that social media is a passing fad and one that cannot be incorporated into training programs for learners? Think again. Jane Bozarth’s new book […]
For Teams
We offer a range of consulting, coaching and training for teams in organisations who want to build the digital skills capability of their employees to inspire them to be self-directed learners, build their professional networks, manage information online so that they can manage their own professional development and career. I also offer services to teachers on how to […]