I saw an article last week about why mentoring in the hybrid era is the key to employee engagement. It isn’t of course – engagement is a nebulous concept with imaginary metrics designed to make it ‘important’ for HR, and a single element won’t ever be the key to it. However, mentoring IS a way… Read More Engagement anti-matters
I mentioned last week that I was standing for election as an eLN Director. Well, I won. My focus is going to be on mentoring – a topic I’ve mentioned before. Before saying what I’ll be doing, I’m really keen to understand what people want from mentoring. In his excellent book about the lack of… Read More Approval
Someone asked me the other day if they could pick my brains. Are they really asking for a wander through my thoughts in the hope of finding some value? Or are they asking for confirmation of an opinion? Some inspiration? A level of insight? A question to affirm your confidence in them? Don’t just download… Read More Brainstorming
I read a lot about personal learning networks (PLN) and feel happy to have one of my own. On closer inspection though, I think we’ve been mis-selling them. A learning network would be a series of different channels and environments. Mine would contain my podcast libraries, video libraries, significant Evernote record, Pocket and Feedly records… Read More Personally speaking