I had a wonderful email from a Learning and Development Roundtable member recently asking me for my top Learning and Development books.She wrote: “I wanted to ask if you have any recommendations for books/ training manuals for working with vulnerable youth (in an international context) or any … [Read more...] about My top Learning and Development books – 30+ years worth (Part One)
Information is flowing faster than ever. We are walking and talking faster than a decade ago. We’re inundated with platforms, blogs, websites, tweets, LinkedIn posts, Youtube videos, online courses etc etc. But who has time for learning?The better question is ‘who doesn’t have time … [Read more...] about How to design a customized learning plan for 2022 that fits you and your team to a T and increases your ROI
Just when we’ve gotten the hang of online meetings and online events, now we’re being asked to add another new beast to the mix. That beast being hybrid events and hybrid meetings. A hybrid event/meeting is one where some participants are in a virtual room (such as MS Teams or Zoom) … [Read more...] about Learning and Development Roundtable: How to do Hybrid Meetings and Events without Headaches
In honour of World Environment Day, June 5th, let’s talk about the collective. Collective intelligence that is.There is power, wisdom and intelligence found in a said crew, aka groups. There’s even a name for it - collective intelligence.Collective intelligence“Collective … [Read more...] about Five benefits of collective intelligence and five skills for how to tap into it
With the ever-increasing pace of life, attention is more scarce than ever these days towards real online engagement, learning and communication. We flip channels, YouTube playlists, Spotify songs, and other online content faster than you can say ‘Zoom, zoom, zoom a zoom.’ … [Read more...] about Easy tech tools to amp up online engagement, learning and communication
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
In these turbulent, trying times we are apart but that doesn’t mean we have to be isolated. Tech tools can help bring us together, they can help us connect, bridge and help us feel like we belong. Seriously.If your eyebrows have just climbed up your face and you’re snorting in derision, I get … [Read more...] about Learning and Development Roundtable: Harnessing Tech Tools for Turbulent Times
Did you know our brains interpret images 600,000 times faster than text? Yep. Pretty darn fast eh! (Source: Power of visual storytelling by Ekaterina Walter and Jessica Gioglio which was one of my top reads from 2018).Our brains love images. They draw us in, draw us close and open … [Read more...] about How to bring out your inner, creative artist with visual communication skills
“You can’t develop a side thing, lob it over the fence and expect it to be picked up,” said my lovely coffee companion Steven Webb, Senior Advisor, Change Management for UNHABITAT.I believe we’re all change agents, so when I got the chance to site down with a change master maestro, I nabbed … [Read more...] about Change management musings from a change master maestro
The rain poured down so hard it formed a veil, one that I couldn’t see through but I hoped my driver could. As we pulled up to the UN Base in Entebbe, Uganda, he tried to get the car as close to the building as possible so I wouldn’t get soaked.Wishful thinking.I was in Entebbe to do a … [Read more...] about The roof collapsed, the venue was flooded, I was soaked and I was about to give a workshop
I’d gone from a balmy +30 degree Celsius at my home in Nairobi, Kenya to -20 in northern Sweden. My feet, covered only in thick socks, were warming beside a roaring fire. Later on I’d go to grab my boots to put them back on and find they were frozen to the thick reindeer pelts I was … [Read more...] about Learning how to learn from a traditional Sami reindeer herder
The pressure’s on. It’s a new year which likely means a new and never-ending to do list right?Wrong.We focus wayyyy too much on our to do’s and not enough on our to don’ts. Let me explain.When was the last time you took something OFF your plate of to … [Read more...] about Want more breathing space? Ramp up with this easy ‘ta da’ technique
The trick is for the (scissor) blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
— Mary Jo Putney
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
— Amelia Earhart
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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