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Listening loudly, a lost art?

Listening loudly, a lost art? New post on why we should listen a little bit more and speak a little less often.

Listening loudly is one of my favourite concepts, it implies you are actively listening, paying attention and hearing what is being said. We all know someone who people just open their hearts to, they’re that person who you’ve told your story to without even realising it, that friend who everyone confides in. Think about it, I’m pretty sure you can think of someone.

“Listening is a magnetic and…

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#active listening #Learning #Listening #mental health #samaritans

Blowing those cobwebs away...

New month, new blog - Blowing those cobwebs away...

For me the New Year always feels like it should begin at the end of January not the start. Chinese New Year fallying in late January or early February always seems a much more sensible time for new beginnings. There’s something a bit bloated and stultifying about the early days of January as we adjust to the harsh reality of having spent, eaten, socialised too much in the preceding weeks. Add to…

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Recalibration

Recalibration, a new blog post. Throw the cogs in the air you never know what will happen.

I’ve been travelling up and down to York for my new job over the last month and found myself thinking a lot about the concept of recalibration. Usually associated with mechanics and measurement, checking if an instrument is measuring to a fine degree of precision, I think recalibration is a great metaphor for a process of taking stock and making changes.

The biggest changes I’ve experienced in…

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#adaptability #change #Learning

So @stevewheeler @amybrunell and a number of others have been playing #blimage this week. You can read more about the #blimage challenge here but essentially it involves four simple steps:

Take an image (or use the one Steve provided)

Blog prompted by the image on the theme of learning

Post your blog using #blimage

Inspire someone else by sending them an image

I love this idea, it’s a fun and…

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Flawed, but willing to turn the ship around...

Flawed, but willing to turn the ship around... new blog post mulling on two books on #leadership #wolweek ping @relume1 @ldavidmarquet

I’ve been lucky enough to have some down time over the last couple of weeks and in between packing up the house for our impending move to York I’ve had the chance to catch up on some reading. I’ve devoured a fair few novels but what really stopped me in my tracks were two books ostensibly both non-fiction and on leadership. Honestly, usually I pick up books on leadership and by the second or…

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#change #Informal learning #Leadership #Learning #working out loud

Curating and transferring knowledge & collaborative social learning #CIPDLDshow

#CIPDLDshow new blog - Curating and transferring knowledge & collaborative social learning

A jam-packed session chaired by Julian Stodd (@julianstodd) focused on tacit knowledge in our organisations, how we share it and how we collaborate to create it and create change. Both presentations were from the medical sector, one, Astra Zeneca operating in a highly regulated manufacturing environment and the second, the NHS IQ team (@NHSIQ)

First up was Roy Davis from Astra Zeneca. Roy…

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#collaboration #Informal learning #Learning #social learning

From lurker to learner - ignite your passions #CIPDldshow

From lurker to learner - a day 2 blog post to encourage you to #ignite your passions on social media #CIPDldshow

Using social media for my own personal and professional development is almost second nature to me now but five years ago I didn’t know my hashtags from my hash browns!

This morning I’m giving an Ignite talk at the CIPD L&D show on how I journeyed from being a shy introverted lurker on social media to harnessing its value for my own development. Let’s not dwell on the anxiety that the Ignite…

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#Ignite #Learning #PLN #Social

The power of purpose - building resilience #cipldshow

Olympia looked majestic in the brilliant sunshine this morning and there was a definite buzz around the place and not just from the coffee. This year’s CIPD L&D show is offering a range of different sessions from free tasters in the main exhibition, short Ignite talks to full workshops. Only able to stay for half a day I picked two sessions on leadership, a topic close to my heart.

The…

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#Cipdldshow #Leadership

Blogging for golden nuggets of wisdom

I’m so delighted to be part of the team asked to cover the CIPD L&D show this year, delighted and a bit daunted. I’ve been tweeting and blogging for a while but never in an ‘official’ capacity, I think I get a press pass which is very exciting! As I type this I’m charging up devices and batteries and pondering what else will help me make a good job of this…

Having an open mind and a ready ear…

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Getting creative - a review of Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences

New post - getting creative with your methods, my thoughts on a new textbook from @drhelenkara

Creative research methods have a long tradition in the arts and humanities, but are much less familiar in the social sciences. So I’m delighted to see this new book from Dr Helen Kara offer a welcome insight into the growing field of creative research methods for social science research. The book is a positive romp through a whole range of creative methods and approaches. Inevitably this means…

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#creative research methods #creativity #methodology #social research #Social science

Feedback: a purposeful act of appreciation

Getting in Just under the wire with my post for the #feedbackcarnival - Feedback: a purposeful act of appreciation

I started writing this post a fair few weeks ago in response to Helen’s (aka. @WildFigSolns) call for people to share their thoughts on why feedback doesn’t happen more often. But other things got in the way and in the interim a whole host of wonderful posts have been shared which you can find at the hashtag #feedbackcarnival. As a result I’ve happily scrapped my draft as other bloggers have…

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In the margins

New post - In the margins - considering the traces we leave in books #marginalia

Image from http://airshipdaily.com/blog/marginalia

Some people write in their books; others view this as desecration. The practice of adding handwritten notes, or marginalia, to books has been going on for centuries. (The Evolution of Marginalia: Kiri L. Wagstaff)

Our love affair with the e-book is showing no signs of abating but like many people I’m still attached to real books and have…

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Praise you

Praise you - in celebration of long service

“We’ve come a long, long way together, through the hard times and the good, I have to celebrate you babay, I have to praise you like I should.” FatBoy Slim ‘Praise You’

I didn’t intend to write this post just yet but then I realised last night that 18 years ago today I stepped through the doors of my current organisation with no idea that I’d still be here so many years down the road. I joined a…

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#work

What makes a great community for learning & knowledge exchange: update

What makes a great community for learning & knowledge exchange: update with image deck #LT15UK #T3S3

Here is the full slide deck from my session at #LT15Uk today, I’d love to hear your thoughts, comments and experiences of building communities of practice for learning. Thanks to: Niall Gavin, Con Sotodis, Martin Couzins and Helen Blunden for their input into my thinking:

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#capacity-building #collaboration #community #L&D #Learning #social learning

What makes a great community for learning & knowledge exchange

Can you help? In advance of my #LT2015 session on building communities for learning, we want to hear about your experiences...

I’m a big advocate of the potential for peer led networks and communities to help improve performance, build shared understanding and develop professional practice. I’ve written about this before and I’m looking forward to talking about my experiences of building networks and communities in and beyond the workplace at the Learning Technologies conference at the end of this month. I’ll maybe…

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#capacity-building #community #Informal learning #L&D #Learning #social learning #Social learning (social pedagogy)

Innovations in knowledge sharing, creating a book of blogs

In October 2014 the NSMNSS network published its first ebook, a collection of over fifty blogs penned by researchers from around the world who are using social media in their social research. To the best of our knowledge this is the first book of blogs in the social sciences. It draws on the insights of experienced and well-known commentators on social media research through to the thoughts of…

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It started with a tweet...

It started with a tweet…

This blog was originally published on the NatCen blog here.

It started with a tweet, a blog post and a nervous laugh. Three months later I found myself looking at a book of blogs. How did that happen?! Being involved in the NSMNSS networksince its beginning has been an ongoing delight for me. It’s full of researchers who aren’t afraid to push the boundaries, question established thinking and…

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