Daily life can often be a massive challenge. From overloaded to-do lists to crunched time, and from feeling like we’re being pulled in every direction to the dizzyingly fast pace of life - it’s enough to make even the most patient person have a meltdown (or multiple meltdowns). Added … [Read more...] about Learning and Development Roundtable: Easy, peasy tech tools to save your sanity in work and at home
Learn how to build community and engagement online (with an elephant, raccoon, roller coaster and vacuum cleaner)
Wondering what a roller coaster, raccoon, vacuum cleaner and elephant have to do with building community engagement online? Keep reading. Lectures that drone on and on. Overwhelming unread notifications of online events. Workshops that are drier than the Sahara desert and … [Read more...] about Learn how to build community and engagement online (with an elephant, raccoon, roller coaster and vacuum cleaner)
Three is your lucky charm: see, hear and do via Annie Lennox’s I need a man
I was driving over the Golden Gate bridge on my way to Stanford University to attend an International Development conference. I’d driven my little car all the way there from Vancouver with my best friend. We’d loaded up my trunk with brochures from local NGO agencies to give away at the … [Read more...] about Three is your lucky charm: see, hear and do via Annie Lennox’s I need a man
A handy dandy digital checklist for you and your next online event
Here's how to make your online event engaging and intriguing through my handy checklist. Digital engagement. Does the mere mention of digital engagement make your toes curl and your innards quake? Does it make your eyebrows (or more) rise in disbelief because you think great online … [Read more...] about A handy dandy digital checklist for you and your next online event
What a former child soldier has to teach us all about teamwork and humanity
Former child soldier and now global music sensation, humanitarian and all-round epic humble human being, Emmanuel Jal has more than a few things to teach us all about humanity and teamwork. I sat down with him recently to interview him for my monthly Learning and Development Roundtable (link to … [Read more...] about What a former child soldier has to teach us all about teamwork and humanity
A simple tool to determine where your bias in learning and teaching lies and how to get around it
You’re an expert on your beloved subject matter. You care deeply about your topic. You want to start designing workshops around it but are stuck and stumped. You’re a tad overwhelmed with where to start because you’re not a teacher. Here is a simple tool to make your learning and teaching … [Read more...] about A simple tool to determine where your bias in learning and teaching lies and how to get around it
Ten lessons from my Maasai friend, spurred by taking fresh kill from a lion part two
I’ve been going on safaris since 1995 when I saw my first zebra while hitchhiking from South Africa to Zimbabwe. Last week I wrote about the first five of ten lessons I’ve learned from safari guide and dear friend Jackson Looseyia and his magical Tangulia Mara Camp. (I got to know Jackson when I … [Read more...] about Ten lessons from my Maasai friend, spurred by taking fresh kill from a lion part two
Ten lessons from my Maasai friend, spurred by taking fresh kill from a lion
I don’t know which I was more fascinated by, the Dorobo men confidently walking towards a pride of lions to take some of their fresh kill (true story!) or the Maasai man who was so expertly interpreting for the BBC film crew. In honour of World Humanitarian Day I thought it was perfect timing to … [Read more...] about Ten lessons from my Maasai friend, spurred by taking fresh kill from a lion
