ffff Thread by @ActivateLearn: “A recent discussion with @bizaaron & today with a girlfriend who is an amateur film maker got me thinking about value of Instagram. I wa […]”
Drawing as Thinking and Treasure Maps
This morning I sat down to go through my bookmarked tweets so that I could catch up with my reading and spent all of my time on the one tweet which was this one by @GiuliaForsythe… Got my reading list sorted for this weekend. The #LearningOrganization a Literature Review https://t.co/Db9nojNkqB #activatemylearning – currently now […]
Laying Low
Sometimes like everyone, I have my up days and I have my down days. For the last couple of weeks, I have been feeling decidedly flat and unmotivated. I’m someone who is affected by the weather and the cooling temperature is making me dread the upcoming winter. A cynical part of me calls it “the […]
Working Out Loud in Week 9
I am part of a Working Out Loud Circle hosted by Simon Fogg (@srjf) and we are currently in week 9. A Working Out Loud circle is a 12-week program and developed by John Stepper (@johnstepper). Participants meet online every week and go through a set of different activities and tasks to help them achieve […]
The Wonder of Working with Creative Teams
I’m working on a fake news channel on Snapchat and here I put some reflections down on the value I’m receiving from being part of this creative team. The Wonder of Creating with Teams This blog post by Helen Blunden was written in Melbourne, Australia and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Never […]
The Importance of Sponsors To Build Your Personal Learning Networks
Here’s a collection of tweets made into a Moment. A fitting name for the moment of reflections when someone says something to me and I make a connection to it with something else. On Sponsorship & Personal Learning Networks This blog post by Helen Blunden was written in Melbourne, Australia and is licensed under a Creative Commons […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 27 March 2017
Here are the snap stories of the week of 27 March. For some reason Monday seems to have disappeared which is unfortunate because I had a rant about the two fundamental skills of any modern worker that have been the most useful to me. These skills were: Building a Personal Learning Network; and, Personal Knowledge […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 20 March 2017
Here are my snap stories for the week of 20 March… Wednesday 22 March 2017 – Work Out Loud Wednesday Today I talked about the concept of an ‘internal influencer’ or intrapreneur or change agent. I had been talking to a colleague about the concept of ‘influencer’ which seems to be a term that is […]
This Week’s Snap Stories on Personal Learning Week of 6 March 2017
This week I continue to use Snapchat as my video editor to vlog some of my snap stories on personal learning. This week it’s been about automation, consulting books and writing eBooks! I have been using this time to work on my own Personal Learning Plan which involves a lot more book reading, exploring the […]
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 […]
Lessons From An Independent Consultant
All gifs in this post via GIPHY It’s hard to imagine that three years have already gone by since I left the corporate world to become an independent consultant. It has been one of the most transformative personal learning journeys for me in my life that’s seen me ride the peaks and troughs of consulting work. There […]
This Week’s Snap Stories on Personal Learning
This week I continue to use Snapchat as my video editor to vlog some of my snap stories on personal learning. As well as continuing with the disheartening job search, I have been using this week to read more books (I’m now reading Drucker’s The Learning Organization) as well as write an ebook on Snapchat. […]
The Value of Networking for Learning and Development
What’s The Value of Networking for Learning and Development? This post was recently published in the Training Journal on 9 March 2016 There is much discussion online about the future of Learning and Development and how teams can support their workforce to build capability during a time of constant change and volatility. Yet, how much […]
Why You Need DIY Learning
Years ago I used to visit my aunt and uncle on the other side of town. Every time I got out of the car outside their home, my arms laden with baked goodies to have for our afternoon tea together, I would sneak a look next door and check the progress of their neighbour’s DIY […]
Why You Should Share Your Work
Many of you may be aware that I’m a fan of the work of Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer). It was only recently at the Pivot Summit in Geelong that I had been made aware of his work and I signed up to follow his Facebook page. Robert Scoble used to work at Rackspace as their futurist. Much […]
When Your Employees Just Don’t Care
When I was working in the learning and development department of corporate organisations, there were many times I felt anxious, stressed and pressured. As someone who has experienced four redundancies, countless restructures, sat through many job interviews and even had a stint on the unemployment queue receiving a government handout (“the dole”), the idea of […]
Auditors are Not Boring
Myth busted – Auditors are not boring! I thought I’d put it out there so that we can start this blog post on a positive note and dispel that stereotype once and for all. This week I had an opportunity to present two sessions at SOPAC 2016. The first session was How to Build Your […]
March – A Month of New Clients…and a Baby
Well, what a month! It’s been crazy hectic – but a lot of fun! It’s been about new client work which explains the lack of blog posts… No, I didn’t have a baby but read on. What Have I Been Working On? My biggest achievement was completing the Work, Connect and Learn Program, a guided […]
The Work, Connect and Learn Program is Over…But The Journey Has Just Begun
It’s been over a few weeks since my last blog post and believe me, I’ve been thinking about it writing every day but simply couldn’t commit the time as my first priority was to deliver the guided social learning program, Work Connect and Learn Program with Coca Cola Amatil. You may have read my other posts […]
Learning is Connecting: Reflections of Learning Lab 2015
The Vocational Development Centre hosted Learning Lab, a mini Digital Conference for Vocational educators at the Melbourne Convention Centre on Thursday 5 March to showcase, promote and apply new tools and technology in the classroom. Here are my reflections on how I planned my Twitter session and how I could have improved on it for […]