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What has Adriano Zumbo got to do with workplace learning?
I am the first to admit that I’m a bit of a “procrasti-baker” – I will happily bake while everything else goes to rack and ruin. As part of my obsession I’ve been watching a new TV show recently called...
View ArticleCan you build a learning community or must it grow?
Last weekend, I found myself at the Entertainment Quarter in Sydney. This area was built in the early 2000s on the site of the old Sydney Showground. It was designed to be a new recreation and...
View ArticleThe song must further the story
Walt Disney once said that the songs in Disney movies are not just there for the music but must be there to further the story. In the same way, the tools that we use when designing learning initiatives...
View ArticleNo more death by PowerPoint: A peer feedback process to replace student...
Who has sat through several hours of presentations either as a student or as an instructor? While there's a time and place for in-class presentations often they are not necessarily the optimal way to...
View ArticleReflections past and future
This is definitely a reflective time of year with the end of one year and the promise of a fresh start for the next. It's also perhaps the first time in a long while that, if you're anything like me,...
View ArticleAn Astronaut’s guide to learning
Col. Chris Hadfield has written about his experiences as an astronaut and the key role that training and learning played. What can this teach us about learning here on earth?
View ArticleLeading complexity
People are increasingly recognising that the standard paradigms for many things - leadership being one of them - are no longer suitable or sufficient for understanding the world of flux and change we...
View ArticleOperationalising complexity for leading
If we take a complex systems view of leading, then much of what we currently offer for leadership development may be obsolete. Instead, what if leaders were encouraged to take a mindset shift to see...
View ArticleInterrogating innovation
What is innovation anyway? My life seems to be all about innovation at the moment and the focus is understandable. The world is moving faster than everand advances in technology and ways of...
View ArticleYou can take the leader out of the system…(no really, you can)
Recent leadership moves in Australian business highlight an outdated view of leadership and leading. In complex adaptive organisations, leaders need a greater sense of their role as part of an...
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