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Couch to 5K

One of the activities I began during isolation when the world was cooped up in their homes was a daily morning walk – a long one at that for a full hour and many times, an hour and a half.  Throughout this time, I continued to work three days a week so remote work was […]

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Is 2020 over yet?

I feel it’s been ages since I have written here and I think it’s partly because I can’t wait until 2020 is finally over. We’re only in June and already I feel that it’s been a long drawn out year that has left me – and many others – feeling worse for wear.  I keep […]

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Weekly Rapt: The Paradox of Professional Autonomy – on Reflective Practice in the Workplace

Welcome to Weekly Rapts Every week I come across some exceptional articles, books, videos, tweets and other stuff that captures my attention and inspires me to action which could be to write about a blog post; have a conversation about it with someone; create something from it; escape down a rabbit warren to learn more […]

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Reflective Practice in the Workplace

“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.[Christopher Hitchens] This week I was invited to be a guest on the Good Practice podcast (a podcast on Work, Learning and Performance) which I accepted with some hesitation. (You should have seen the long-winded DM response in Twitter […]

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Reading Books as Sense Making

Many of you already know about my return to fiction reading after becoming so frustrated with reading only what other people were reading in the area of Learning and Development, Marketing, Business and Entrepreneurship. I think I reached a saturation point with those because it was the same people talking about the same books, talking […]

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A Pack of Podcasts

So what’s a collection of podcasts called? A Panel, a pack, a pile…? Last week, I needed some more podcasts to listen to and sent out a request to learn what people were listening to.  I wanted something different to learning and development (got this one down pat) or true crime (not my taste). So […]

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Weekly Rapts

Welcome to Weekly Rapts Every week I come across some exceptional articles, books, videos, tweets and other stuff that captures my attention and inspires me to action which could be to write about a blog post; have a conversation about it with someone; create something from it; escape down a rabbit warren to learn more […]

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This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 26 June 2017

 Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning.  It’s been an incredible week learning about Australian maritime history, Convict Settlement, Podcasting, Personal Productivity and how different cultures use Social Media. Monday 26 June 2017 First day of a new week and it’s all systems go. In today’s snapstory, I look like something the cat dragged […]