Critical plus

I was talking about heavy thinking last week and realised I first posted about it 5 years ago. Heavy thinking is the creative and critical thinking you need to do to but is often overlooked. Creative to come up with the new ideas and ways around problems and issues; critical to identify the practical of… Read More Critical plus

Detached from the reality

The paradox of success is that the better you become at something the more you move away from it. You start as a supervisor and team leader, then a manager and lead, and then a director. You’re becoming more and more detached from the essence of the work over this time; it’s less about the… Read More Detached from the reality

A 30 minute module

I was lucky to catch up with Kim Edwards last week. Always insightful, we talked about the time we spend producing content. There is a pervasive theme in the way we design learning support and that is we design to time. A 30 minute module, a micro audio, a two day event, etc. But this… Read More A 30 minute module

Bidding

I know completing procurement processes is time consuming, complicated, wearing and bureaucratic. What is does do, however, is make you think about what you do and force you to describe in a way that people who don’t know what you do understand.