Recently I was talking to a friend about how she uses social media. She admitted that she prefers to not engage or contribute in open and public forums with strangers preferring only to connect with people that she knows and even then, it’s only through direct and private messages. Although she regularly scans her social […]
My Learning and Development Plan for 2018
After reading Simon Fogg’s blog post on all his learning and development plans for 2018, I started to think what my plans could be. I’m usually someone who plans everything – sometimes it’s not expressly written on paper or recorded online but it’s a mental note where I keep tabs on what it is I […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 18 December 2017
Here is this week’s snap stories of personal learning for the week of 18 December 2017. Monday 18 December 2017 Today I talk about a post I wrote called You Are Not a Thought Leader and how it got many people talking about it on LinkedIn and Twitter. I also do a bit of baking of […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 4 & 11 December 2017
Here is this week’s snap stories of personal learning for the week of 4 December 2017. Monday 4 December 2017 Today it was all about talking about modern workplace learning and introducting the work that I do as a learning and development consultant. Thursday 7 December 2017 Today I talk about Chelsea Peitz new book […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 27 November 2017
Here is this week’s snap stories of personal learning for the week of 27 November 2017. Monday 27 November 2017 Today it was all about my obsession with mindmaps. I woke up early one day and decided to mind map my entire business, products and services. Getting it down on paper and then MindMeister (the […]
What I Learned This Year
This morning I listened to the Good Practice podcast “What I Learned This Year” and it got me thinking about what I learned and decided to share my reflections here. Lesson 1: Knowing More About What I’m Willing to Stand For and Put Up With Working on your own is hard work and not for […]
You Are Not a Thought Leader
I got a bit ranty this week on Twitter. I had just reached a point where my top was blown. My limit reached. My patience stretched. I’m a huge fan of Fiona Tribe or aka @White_Owly who publishes tweets about people, brand and culture that go directly to the heart of what is wrong with organisations […]
An Experiment with Social Media
I’m doing an experiment with social media. Over the last few months, I’ve been getting overwhelmed again thinking about the new year and how to get more leads for work. I’m not going to lie, when you work for yourself, it’s SO tough. I’ve had days when I couldn’t get out of bed because it […]
What Business Can Learn From Fake News
What happens when a group of people who have never met in real life, create a fake news channel that inspires people around the world? The idea came from content creator, Cameron Murray (@CammySutra6) from Glasgow who, tired of the fake news and influencers in social media content marketing took matters in his own hands to create […]
Social Learning – It’s Not What You Think
A couple of weeks back I was invited by Brenden Carter, Creative Director and General Manager of Learning Hook to be a guest on their podcast. The invite was immediately accepted. I have known Brenden for many years and we even worked together for a while. I have the highest respect for his work because he’s […]
Things I Learned from Pivot Summit 2016
I attended the Pivot Summit in Geelong yesterday. It was the second time I had been to this new and emerging tech and entrepreneurship conference in the regional town and this year, decided to use Snapchat to record my learning. Here’s what I learned… Then I decided to include my key learnings within Storify so […]
Build Your Network: A New Coaching Program
Many people who know me know that I’m a self-starter and love to learn. You’d be pleasantly surprised that it doesn’t always come naturally to me but the risk of missing out on a potential opportunity experience something new is worse than not trying anything at all. So what might come across as spontaneity or frivolity on this […]
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 […]
Co-Working at the Nest
Today I went along to the free co-working day hosted by Nest Coworking in Thornbury in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. (I’m currently typing this blog post from their big community desk you see in one of the photos below). Joyce Seitzinger (@catspyjamasnz) had alerted me to this space to check out due to […]
Reflections of the 2015 AITD National Excellence Awards
Last weekend I flew up to Sydney on the kind invitation of Michelle Ockers from Coca Cola Amatil to attend the 2015 Australian Institute of Training and Development National Excellence Awards. I worked together with Michelle on the Work, Connect and Learn Program which was part of the Supply Chain Systems Certification Program which was […]
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 […]
Someone Showed Their Work & This Was the Result
For those of you who may be questioning how I create and update this site, I’d just like to say that all work on this site is my work. I have not outsourced any of the WordPress development or updates on this site to anyone. (Mistake Numero Uno when doing anything – always outsource the […]
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 Giving of Freedom
A story 8 days ago: It was the last working week for the year, and I was about to leave the house for a hectic day of deadlines. I’d planned to go in earlier than usual to get a head start on things I had to do. But…just as I was about to head out the […]
My Top Posts for 2014
There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same […]