I found a new way to create podcasts for those who have been asking me this question over the last couple of years. And it’s too easy. In an employment contract with an organisation some time ago, I remember trawling Yammer one morning while having breakfast at my desk. I came across an internal business […]
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This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 10 July 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning (that is, what I’m learning and how it applies to work). I use Snapchat as my Working Out Loud tool that captures my thoughts and reflections during the day in a chronological order. I also use it as a channel to inform, educate and inspire others […]
Excited About a New Role
After four months of searching for a job, I’m happy to say that I’m excited about a new role as a Learning Architect with a major insurance company in Australia, IAG. The role is for three months and I’ll be part of the Capability and Learning team who will roll out a new social collaboration […]
End of Year Stocktake
It’s coming to the end of the year and every year I do an end of year stock take. I revisit the personal goals I set out to achieve for myself from the beginning of the year and look at what was achieved, what succeeded and what failed. It’s a good practice to understand that […]
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. […]
Showing and Sharing Your Work and Learning
Have you got knowledge, skills and expertise to show and share to the world? Do you want to show your expertise to your company (or the world) but don’t know where to start or how to do it? Are you shy in using the camera or want to find ways to show and share your […]
Learning is Personal
Recently I worked on a small project with a corporate to provide feedback on their design specification of a social learning program that was going to be delivered through their Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) platform. There were many moving parts to this project simply because it was the first time the Learning and Development team […]
How Do We Work Together?
One of the questions I get asked often by people looking to employ my services is, “How do we work together?” So I thought I’d share my answer here. One of the difficult things I’ve gone through in the last two years as an independent consultant is exactly defining the one thing that I most […]
Change Without Fear
Can you change without fear? It seems like I’ve been doing a lot of fighting…and I’m tired. Last week I attended the Bayside Business Breakfast. The Bayside Council runs various business networking events for small business owners. These vary from after work ‘meet and mingle’ events, business book club, workshops, seminars and a popular breakfasts […]
Co-Working at the Docklands Library
Last Friday, I organised a co-working day at the Docklands Library in Melbourne and called it ThirdPlace. I started this meet up group a couple of years ago for people interested in adult education, coaching and all things related to “learning” to gather for informal social networking events. The people belong across all different industries and professions. […]
Networked Workers Learn From the World Around Them
For the last few days I have been revisiting the notes in my Evernote notebooks and deleting things that are now outdated or irrelevant to me. Usually when I can find some time, I go through this process a few times a year. I find it cathartic to release myself of information that no longer serves […]
It’s Not About Using Social Media, It’s About Building Your Community
This morning I went to the last Melbourne Business Awards breakfast for the year. The event recognises and rewards excellence in industry and manufacturing in my local area of the City of Kingston in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne. I joined this association in an effort to connect more with my local community. I […]
Is Service Above Self A New Behaviour for a Networked World?
For the last few months, I’ve been busy creating a couple of new programs to share with you in 2016. You may have noticed I’ve been a bit more quieter on social media of late. You haven’t? Well, never mind. If anything, I feel as if I’ve been doing less tweeting of late and it’s […]
The Ups and Downs of Business
This year, I have been undertaking a year long Business Coaching course through David Guest Outcomes Business Group. I’m eight months in and I can say that it has been an investment in my time and also my own professional and personal development. It has enabled me to plan, prepare and streamline processes and it […]
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 […]
End of the Year Review
Every year I write some professional and personal goals to achieve by the end of the year. It was no different for 2014. Professionally, it was a big year for me so I’m happy how things have transpired. Professional Goals And Here Are the Results for 2014! Activate Activate Learning Solutions Check. Quit Full Time Work. […]
5 Lessons for the New Freelancer
It’s been nearly two months out of the contracting world and into the world of freelancing. Many people have asked me how I’m finding the transition. All I can say is that “so far so good” and that it is tracking the way I thought it would be. That is, it’s given me time to […]
Yammer for Learning & Networking
Many people have asked me what I have been doing now that I’m out of the corporate world and smack bang into the freelance consulting world. It’s now been four weeks out of a 9 to 5 job and the best thing about my new lifestyle is that I don’t have the dreaded commute every morning battling […]
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 […]
How Fascinating Are You?
I’m in my third day of freelancing and truth be told, I’m feeling scattered. So many ideas tumble around in my head that I need to make sense of them. In my home office, I’ve stuck “Magic Whiteboard” on the walls and as the ideas come to me, I grab the coloured markers and scribble them […]