I had one goal when I commenced my career in HR - become the Chief HR Officer of a multinational corporation. That would be the height of success, to lead a team and to lead strategy, to be seen as doing good. About 5 years ago, I recognised that might not be aligned to who... Continue Reading →
Data, why do you have an LMS?
My opinion on this is simple, the LMS is a hangover from the last decade of elearning travesties. There are only two reasons you have an LMS - compliance training and reporting. I think all you need is a great intranet, with the capability to capture compliance sign offs and training. Outside of that, why... Continue Reading →
Overwhelm, the opportunity in finding the breaking point
You don’t know when breaking point will come. It simmers in the background until one more thing, that very last thing, pushes it to a boiling point. The process of dealing with overwhelm, comes with learning curve.. and the possibility of coming out of it better than where we started.
Chaos, finding the will to continue
There have been some days in the last 3 months where I have woken up, and while immensely grateful to be working and be able to work in the safety of my home, all I want to do is keep sleeping. If I go back to bed, then I don’t have to deal with the... Continue Reading →
Conflict, I am who I am
Personality is deeply complex, and is best studied in motion. When you are interacting with the world and responding to the behaviour of others.
Can you teach someone who doesn’t want to learn?
More times than I can count someone has been sent to training, either in my classroom or an on the job experience and within about 20 seconds I have uncovered that they would rather be anywhere else, than here with me doing training.
Demystify Your Values and Take Action
Can you define your values and do you know how to put them into action? In this post we explore how looking back can help you move forward with values in mind.
2 Easy Ways To Make a Career Change Faster
A career plan rarely goes to plan. It can feel really disorientating to be so sure of your career path and then find yourself questioning whether this what you really want to spend your time on. I have been there, and I grappled with reconciling this huge investment of my time and education into a particular... Continue Reading →
The Truth About Developing Others In 3 Minutes
There is this hurdle that managers face when wanting to grow their career and it’s this little thing called training and development. I've been part of many conversations with task orientated operators who are exceptional trainers, however their lack of people development skills have resulted in being passed over for a promotion. In these conversations... Continue Reading →
Cracking The Empathy Code
It's said that every time you recall something you change the memory. So in fact our memories are never an accurate reflection of what happened, precisely. They a version of our truth, but not the ultimate truth. It becomes the story that we tell ourselves; not the reality to which we have experienced. But the... Continue Reading →