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If you’re not learning, you’re stagnating.
Welcome to my blog. I’m glad that you’re here. I help you build the skills you need to be a continual and lifelong learner.
What’s the point of that, you ask?
Well, our jobs, work and lives are changing constantly. Thanks to COVID, the change has sped up and you probably saw it in how it impacted your day-to-day work. It may have made you reconsider aspects of your work and life. For example, do you want to stay in the same role, profession or career? Do you want to explore something different? Where do you start?
This is where I can help you.
We are at a point in our lives where if we don’t learn, we’re going to be left behind, so we need the skills to be able to learn how to learn. This means taking charge of your development, whether professional or personal.
Rest assured, learning doesn’t mean having to go back to formal schooling, if that’s what you’re worried about.
I will help you explore some ways that you can start to look at your work differently as a “learning experience”. I will help you to plan and map out what you can do to build new networks, find resources and communities who can help you take that next step, whatever that step may be for you.
Let’s face it: if you’re not learning, you’re stagnating
If you’ve ever felt that you were in a rut because your employer or organisation didn’t know your true value, or you weren’t able to use your passions, skills and interests in your current role, I’m here to help you.
As a qualified learning practitioner in corporate organisations over the years, I noticed something.
Organisations didn’t harness the knowledge or power of the unique talents, skills and experiences of their own people to solve their own complex business problems!
Instead, they placed their people into cubicles to work like robots, forced them into classrooms to be lectured at, or pushed them to complete boring online training that bore no relevance, application or meaning to their actual day-to-day work.
Before COVID, people were disengaged at work; after COVID, they were physically and mentally exhausted. That’s when I started to consider how people could use their own knowledge, talents, skills, experiences and networks in their own workplace to learn from each other and with each other, and take charge of their own professional and personal development.
Your success is determined by how open and motivated you are to continually learning new things.
Who is this blog for?
This blog is for motivated individuals who want to build new lifelong learning skills: to navigate online, show and share their knowledge and expertise across networks and communities, and to build a portfolio of their work and learning that helps them stay ahead in their field, or find new fields and endeavours to explore.
About this blog
This website has many posts, some work-related, and some personal reflective posts related to my own growth and development over the years. The topics are:
- How to be a continual and lifelong learner
- Building your personal networks of learning
- Using your enterprise social network for learning experiences
- Narrating your work publicly and transparently
- Building, engaging and managing your community
- Creating and curating content to prevent information overload
- Building a learning portfolio, your “learning biography”, through your professional life
- How to use stories to show and share your work and learning