Back in early 2000s, I decided to throw my hat in the ring and go for the Prince of Wales Award. It’s an award where one Defence Reservist is selected to spend time in a host country to explore a project of interest in their field, research their topic and share their findings. At the […]
Reflections About Personal Learning This Week – 3 May 2020
Beside my desk at home, I have a list of questions that were created by Kenneth Mikkelsen who wrote the post on The Best Leaders are Constant Learners. Every week, I glance over to it and make a mental note to use it as a means of self reflection for the week. After all, I […]
Create Your Own Personal Learning Plan for Isolation
I know that many of us are now self-isolating and working from home. Many are not used to this situation at all as they grapple with a new world order, the kids at home from school and working from home. If there was a time for planning, co-ordination and communication with family members it would […]
Have You Got Hidden Skills That Your Company Doesn’t Know About?
Many of us have sideline projects and interests that capture our attention and engage our minds and our hearts. What if we could be the same with our day to day work? In this short video, I share a couple of my sideline projects that not only inspire me but have been CRITICAL in picking […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning for June 2018
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for June 2018. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day and it’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see my progress towards my own professional […]
Social Learning Is Personal
Ever since late last year, I’ve been revisiting my old work, blog posts, and references sitting in Evernote folders to do with connectivism and came up with the thought that, “social learning IS personal”. Let me explain. For the last few years, working as an independent consultant has been challenging to say the least. It necessitated […]
Return to Roots
For a while now, I’ve been contemplating a return to roots. In the last few months from the tail end of annus horribilis that was 2017 to now, a series of events – mainly due to conversations and collaborations with people outside my field of corporate learning and development, has made me reflect on the […]
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 9 October 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 9 October 2017. Monday 9 October 2017 Today I wrote a blog post from a draft since 2013 called What Do I Suck At. At the time of writing this blog post, I didn’t feel ready to share the outcomes of this little experiment I […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 14 August 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 14 August 2017. Wednesday 16 August 2017 It was a relatively quiet week this week where I just took time to rest and relax. I do have my days where I cannot face the computer or write out blogs, create vlogs or do much at […]
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 […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 19 June 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning. Monday 19 June 2017 On Monday 19 June I decided to snap about CollabTechFest a collaboration conference focussed on enterprise social networks. Of course, I wasn’t there (sometimes attending conferences can be very expensive so I limit my attendance preferring cheaper alternatives – namely connecting with […]
Learning is Like Fitness
This year as I started my fitness routine, I was reminded by a quote by Addison who said that “Reading to the mind is what exercise is to the body“. Now I’m not one who loves exercise. In fact, I hate it. I do it because I have to. Every time, I come up with […]
A Case for Chasing the Shiny and New
When was the last time you heard that you shouldn’t be chasing the shiny and the new or risk your time, money and sanity with new fads? Recently I read Steve Wheeler’s post on Binge Learning where he recounted the story of his obsession with academic studies. The “compelling nature of the content I was […]