Category: Community of practice
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Future of Adult & Community Education
That Adult and Community Education is in crisis, is no surprise to anybody. So, how do we go about making it sustainable, providing it with the platform and importance it requires? I recently attended the Reimagining and Reclaiming Adult and Further Education Congress held at the Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences in Birmingham…
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Navigating the Self-Employment Roller Coaster
It has been way too long… I am embarrassed at how my social media posting has dropped, at the length of time it has taken for me to post another blog… however, that is because I fell into the curse of the self employed! What curse? That of taking on too much work through anxiety…
· Adult Education, change, Community of practice, critical reflection, imposter syndrome, Leadership, learning and development, Mental Health, Motivation, Non-profit projects and organisation, Personal Development, Professional Development, self awareness, self employment, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Wellbeing -
March Newsletter
Winter suddenly feels behind us as March brings unexpected warmth! It feels a time of rejuvenation, of growth amid and in spite of the economic challenges continuing. My year has suddenly ramped up this month and in doing so my social media has fallen by the wayside. So moving into April I will be looking…
· Adult Education, Book review, change, Community of practice, critical reflection, DISC, employee engagement, engaging with employees, imposter syndrome, Leadership, learning and development, mentoring, motivating employees, Motivation, Non-profit projects and organisation, Organisational Development, Personal Development, Professional Development, self employment, work life balance -
Identifying latent skills
I tend to mention in my posts, fairly frequently, the importance of undertaking a skills audit of your staff and I would like to explain why. But first, what is a skills audit? A skills audit is an audit of the existing skills that your staff possess. This can be designed around for their current…
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Review – ‘Make it Human’ by Sarah McLellan
Sarah McLellan’s book ‘Make it Human’ is a go to guide for all things work and people! It’s subtitle is ‘A vision for happier, healthier, more human workplaces’; and for someone whose vision it is to bring the importance of employee engagement, positive work cultures, employee empowerment and growth to the fore, this is like…
· Book review, change, Community of practice, critical reflection, employee engagement, engaging with employees, Leadership, learning and development, motivating employees, Motivation, Non-profit projects and organisation, Onboarding, Organisational Development, Professional Development, Sustainability, work life balance -
Review – ‘Surrounded by Idiots’ by Thomas Erikson
I’m on a bit of a development roll at the moment as I prepare for personal and professional challenges ahead. I’ve just finished reading Thomas Erikson’s ‘Surrounded by Idiots’ which explains the four types of human behaviour the DISC profile tool explores. The four types, you may know, are Red-Dominant, Blue-Analytical, Yellow-Inspiring, and Green- Stable.…
· Book review, change, Community of practice, critical reflection, DISC, employee engagement, engaging with employees, imposter syndrome, Leadership, learning and development, mentoring, motivating employees, Motivation, Non-profit projects and organisation, Onboarding, Organisational Development, Personal Development, Professional Development, self awareness -
The continual rise and fall in importance of learning and development
Why is it, whenever there needs to be a tightening of the budget, learning and development is one of the first departments to be impacted… and how can companies maintain a learning and development programme in such circumstances? A learning and developing culture can be cultivated with very little expense. And when employees are encouraged…
· change, Community of practice, critical reflection, employee engagement, engaging with employees, Leadership, learning and development, mentoring, motivating employees, Motivation, Non-profit projects and organisation, Organisational Development, Personal Development, Professional Development, Sustainability -
Engaging with Volunteers
As a charity or community organisation, your volunteers can be the lifeblood of your work. Without volunteers, you may struggle to reach all the people you wish to support. However, engaging with, motivating and keep volunteers can be tricky. If you want to develop a successful volunteering programme, here are a few ideas! Keeping volunteers…
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Communities of practice…
…are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis.” ―Etienne Wenger, Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge What defines a community of practice is a group of…
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Speed mentoring…hmmmm…
Ok, so feeling a little ridiculous right now. It’s 3.32am and I have given up fighting the little voice in my head. I have to get my thoughts out there. Speed mentoring. Really? When I first heard the term used it was by an American colleague who was contacting me about a mentoring programme she…
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The practice of critical reflection…
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience. – John Dewey Critical reflection is self-critiquing…gently… Stepping back from and actively looking at how you work allows you to see ways in which you may have been able to achieve the same result in a better way. It is an internal quality…
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