I was on a Tube train last week and opened my phone to the message NO CONNECTION. The Tube is a great place to avoid connection – If you don’t turn your WiFi on, you can remain unobtainable until you are back above ground. We lost a lot of this opportunity to disconnect during lockdown… Read More Happenstance of disconnection
At the end of a pretty manic week – conferences, flights, hurricanes, jet lag, etc – there are three specific things this week which need to be amplified. Firstly, look out for a new episode of the Women Talking About Learning podcast next week. Recorded live at the Learning 2022 event in Orlando it really… Read More Is it another blog post about women? Yes, yes it is.
I read the story of the upside down Mondrian the other day. It seems a multi million pound artwork has been hung the wrong way up for many years and no-one has noticed. Fatal error? No. People have accepted it and gone with it. How prepared would your senior management be to accept your colleagues… Read More Upside down
I feel happy when I recognise people ‘get’ that learning can be different. What makes you happy at work?
I see lots of people using the phrase ‘soft skills’ to try and describe the key skills someone needs to be able to do as a minimum for a job. It was interesting to see the Singapore Government label these as Critical Core Skills. They’re critical because they cause failures. They’re core because they’re central… Read More Soft skills
Lost and Desperate 