For twelve sweet years, I’ve been convening folks from around the world, for a free, monthly Learning and Development Roundtable on a range of interesting and engaging topics that members have asked for.
Our community is a global group of diverse, social change-makers, who are committed to learning, making a difference, connecting, and contributing.
Hot tip: If you are a UN staff, all the Roundtables you attended count towards your annual professional development requirement.
Annnnd everyone is welcome, not just UN staff.
Here’s what we covered this year. And while our last roundtable has been held for 2024, don’t worry if you missed out, there’s a whole bunch of new ones cued up for 2025.
Hot tip #2: Did you know that members get access to all twelve years of Learning and Development Roundtables including the ones below? So please join us if you haven’t already.
Last week I covered January to May Learning and Development Roundtables. On with the summary of what we covered in 2024 from June to December.
Unlock Your Voice: Strategies for Powerful Public Speaking
I adore teaching folks how to teach in engaging, innovative, and sticky ways. One of the topics I get asked the most is about public speaking, so I decided to do a whole roundtable on it.
- Uncover why public speaking is an essential skill to master
- Learn a number of very simple techniques you can master before your next public speaking event to help you relax, prepare, and shine
- Discover some truly remarkable, very easy tech tools to support you in your public speaking preparations
- Practice a number of equally simple techniques you can use while you’re public speaking to help you dazzle like the subject matter expert you are
- Build your confidence (so you don’t come across like the screengrab above, which is from my terrible, awful, horrible public speaking example)
- Come away with a number of tools so you can continue building your skills
Pack a Punch with Picture Perfect Visual Storytelling How To’s
Who doesn’t love a good story? This month we dove into simple tools and tricks for how to tell a great story (and why that’s so important).
- Uncover why using images is the magic trick up your sleeve
- Learn why visual storytelling is the answer to people engaging with your content more and also remembering it
- Dive into why and how you can move from displaying your data to telling a story
- Learn the specific elements that make great images
- Practice six lessons for great visual storytelling
- Add to your visual storytelling toolkit with some really simple, cool tech tools
- Come away with a workbook chockablock full of helpful visual storytelling resources, including audio and video recordings and one simple URL that opens up all the online resources
Unconscious Bias 101: How to Spot It, Stop It, and Build Inclusive Spaces
This month I was honoured to work with Dr. Rubina Malik to design and deliver an engaging Roundtable on Unconscious Bias.
- Dive into what unconscious bias truly is, what it’s not, and how to recognize it
- Uncover the good news that will have you sighing with relief about unconscious bias
- Understand the ‘bad’ news – why and how your brain is wired for unconscious bias
- Learn what the unconscious bias traps are and how to cleverly avoid them
- Explore a number of ways you can take action to ditch unconscious bias and reap the benefits of doing so
- Come away with a workbook chockablock full of helpful unconscious bias resources, including the audio and video recording and one simple URL that opens up all the workshop resources
From overwhelmed to organized: easy tech tools to save your sanity at work and at home
Do you feel controlled by tech? This Roundtable focused on how to get back in the driver’s seat and take control of your tech.
- Learn how to identify and prioritize your pain points in life and in work by rewriting Einstein’s theory of relativity
- Create your very own tech map – based on your unique needs and paint points
- Discover my four-point plan for minimizing pain and ensuring your tech success
- Have fun exploring a bunch of simple, easy tools to show you that tech tools really can bring you ease and efficiency whether your pain points are related to managing information, collaborating, saving time/being more productive, researching, managing your email, and/or professional development.
- Push the opportunities even more with tech tools just for fun, for being of service, and for mental health/work-life balance.
- Come away feeling inspired, hopeful and with a workbook full of strategies and tools for you to implement
- Come away with a workbook chockablock full of helpful tech tool resources, including the audio and video recording and one simple URL that opens up all the workshop resources
Once again, the year seemed to fly by as we gathered for monthly Learning and Development Roundtables with change-makers from the world over.
All of the resources including the (timestamped) videos, audio recordings, and workbooks are available to members – for this year’s Roundtables and all twelve years of Roundtables.
Not a member yet? Join here. It’s fun, fabulous and free. You belong here.
Now go on and learn, laugh, and lead
Learn
- Check out the dates for the 2025 Learning and Development Roundtables here and mark your calendars.
- Eager for more? Check out all the Learning and Development Roundtables of 2023, Part one and Part two.
Laugh
- Sometimes we focus a little too much on tech … to our detriment.
Lead
- Join our community and receive regular invitations to my monthly Learning and Development Roundtables plus get access to all twelve-plus years of Roundtable resources. Become a member here. It’s free.
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