Earlier this month, an article on the ABC called out for knitters to knit jumpers for penguins affected by oil spills. Five days later, the Guardian posts another article, “Lay Down Your Needles, Knitters Are Covered For The Time Being” and stops the world in our penguin knitting frenzy. How did the world go so […]
What Do People Think of What You Do?
After my post on “What? You Don’t Do That? We Thought You Did!” had some discussion, I stumbled upon The Context of Things website that had a blog post on IS YOUR JOB WHAT YOU THINK YOU DO, TELL PEOPLE YOU DO, OR ACTUALLY DO? Pertinent question and excellent timing. I don’t know about you but […]
From Contractor to Consultant
Three weeks into my reduced hour work week (3 days) and all I can exclaim is, “What just happened?!” I now work in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays on my current contract until it ends in June. Meanwhile Wednesdays and Thursdays are at home reserved for my consulting work with Activate Learning Solutions. […]
Show Your Work: How to Design If You’re No Graphic Designer
One of the projects I’ve been working on for the last few months has been an Onboarding Program for our Retail business. In the near future, when the program has been implemented into the business, I will write it up as a case study as not only was it the result of some pressing business […]
How Aligned is Learning and Development to Business – an #OzLearn Tweet Chat Tues 8pm AEST
On Tuesday night I will be moderating a live Tweet chat for @OzLearn and hope anyone in learning can join us on Tuesday 11 March at 8:00pm AEST on Twitter. Simply go to Twitter, search on @Ozlearn at that time and join in on the conversation by adding #ozlearn to all your tweets. This month, we will […]
Serendipitous Connections Lead You To a Better World
It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks since my last post. I think that I should scribble notes into my note pad every time I have an engaging and mentally stimulating encounter with people so I don’t forget what we talked about. Even better, I wish I could bottle their passion, enthusiasm and explosion of […]
What I Learned in March
Where did this month go? I don’t know about you but does it feel like the months zip by? Some of you may know that I’m on the Michelle Bridges 12 week Body Transformation Program. Michelle Bridges is an Australian personal trainer and marketing guru who has transformed health and lifestyle in Australia. She is […]