Late last week I visited the team that I coached the Job Instruction technique to observe them in practice. It was the first time the subject matter expert coaches were to coach their team members on the new processes (after having practiced it amongst themselves). I kept an open mind about what was going to […]
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An Old Coaching Framework Comes Good in the New World…Part 2
Some time ago I wrote a blog post on the implementation of an instructional coaching model for structured workbased learning found here: http://activatelearning.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/an-old-coaching-framework-come-good-in-a-new-world/ It’s been a couple of weeks now and already we have some results from that I’d like to share but we are far from finished. I could start off the blog post […]
An Old Coaching Framework Comes Good in a New World
In my current role as an instructional designer on a transformation project, the business has undergone radical change in the recent months. In the past, teams completed processes they had been doing for years and were subject matter experts in their own areas. When something didn’t work, they created their own ‘fix-it’ approach that may […]
LearnX Day 2 My New Source of Truth Dynamic Video Solutions
Bobby Sharma, Training Specialist from Commonwealth Bank talked about Dynamic Video Solutions and how they implemented it into the bank in particularly around business projects. The CBA has 52000 employees with a domestic and international presence. The Dynamic Video Solution (DVS) was brought in as a meansto train wide dispersed group of contractors who need […]
Social Learning Gets the Guernsey at Team Day
As the last two weeks of my current contract draws to a close, I’m trying to wrap things up and hand over the last bits and pieces to my colleagues. After 15 months as an instructional designer on this major transformation project, I’m leaving with a tinge of sadness. But this role has defined me […]
The Move from Face-to-Face to Online Learning
Lately there’s been a real push at work to consider alternatives to delivering facilitator-led programs into online formats. There’s various reasons for doing so but the main ones are to make our content accessible to our interstate colleagues. Another reason is that an impending move to new building does not guarantee that we’ll have our […]
2012 – A Year In Review
Lately it seems that many bloggers are writing their last posts for the year and invariably, they’re called, “A Year in Review”. Who am I not to jump on the bandwagon? I’ve summarised my best posts for the year below but I’m going to start from April 2012 as prior to that, all I seemed […]
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 […]
When Learners Fly the Coop
For the last few months I have been working with a business team in my company responsible for their cross-specialisation as part of a cultural transformation change initiative. When I first started working with them, the team only had two subject matter experts who had been in the organisation for some years and knew all […]
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 […]
Curriculum Vitae
Objective I’m a curious explorer and always learning something new. I believe that access to lifelong learning should be a human right to face the new world ahead of us. I help people to better work, connect and learn at work and through work to help them navigate through constant change and complexity in the […]
Learning Active Campaign
One of the things I have been learning at work is about marketing campaigns. I’m the Community Manager for Adopt & Embrace and as part of the role, I am responsible for looking at ways to have the community be continually aware of what it in there by way of interesting and informative discussions and […]
4 Ways To Integrate Learning into the Workplace
I recently wrote a blog post on How to Deal with People Who Have No Time to Learn New Things at Work and this is a continuation of that post where I share four ways on how to integrate learning into the workplace. There are so many more – but let’s start with four for now. […]
Where are all the Third Places?
They’re all over Melbourne. In fact, they’re popping up in cities all around the world! Last year I started an informal networking group for anyone in the field of learning, training, instructional design, coaching across any sector – whether it’s academia, vocational, public, private, not-for-profit or freelancers as a way to connect people in our […]
My Reflections of the Australian Institute of Training Development National Conference
Last week I travelled north up to Sydney to attend the Australian Institute of Training and Development (AITD) National Conference at the Australian Technology Park. I hadn’t planned to attend the conference but when an invitation from eLearning Provocateur Ryan Tracey landed in my inbox asking me to be a member of one of the panel sessions, […]
How Do We Enforce Independence in Workplace Learning?
I am in the second week of Dave Cormier’s Rhizomatic Learning cMOOC and admittedly, I was struggling there for a while. The subject matter of week one ‘Cheating as Learning‘ became an academic, intellectual and conceptual discussion between participants. I grappled how we could apply cheating as learning within the context of the corporate work environment […]
What They Say About Me
Here are some of the clients I have worked with and for. Helen Palmer Helen is an open constant adventurous learner – and for this I have much admiration. She creatively and generously shares her stories and experiments of learning, her progress on learning adventures, and insights from learning. There’s always a nugget of […]
LearnX 2013
It’s not everyday that you get the opportunity to go to a learning conference with your colleagues. I jumped at the chance when I was asked as they were going to receive an award for the best accessible eLearn course at LearnX. As it was in Sydney, a city I don’t like to visit often, […]
Week 5: Platforms and Technologies for #OCTEL
This week we had to reflect on Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory and answer the following questions: Reflect on whether you accommodate these learning styles in your teaching practice. Do the technologies you use help you achieve this? If so, how? Or do they hinder it? What tools relate to the quadrants of the diagram? Does the […]