Category: Sustainability
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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 -
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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‘Meh’ to ‘Yeh’
So, last week I had a very unsatisfactory after work run. I class an unsatisfactory run one in which I feel as bad at the end as I did at the start! When there is no impressive time within which I ran to make it feel worth it. When I don’t notice the beautiful colours…
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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 -
Making a change…
I’ve recently been thinking about my work future. I’ve been thinking of my career and where I want it to go. I’ve been wondering if it is the right fit for me, if it is fulfilling, and what, besides the money, is important to me. Going freelance or being a sole trader has always had…
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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 -
Five year plans
I recently reacted to a LinkedIn post that was reminding us we are in control of our working lives, and that we should not feel we are stuck in a rut. My response was: ‘This is a fresh perspective for those of us feeling in a rut! We are in control of our working lives.…
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Transparency in Change
Think of the last change your business went through. Was it successful? Was it truly successful? If so, brilliant! Please put up a blog post about it and send it to me. And… you no longer need to continue reading this post. You cracked it! :-) For those of you whose change management wasn’t successful……
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Psychological Safety in the Workplace
Not a buzzword! Wikipedia defines psychological safety as: ‘… the belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. In teams, it refers to team members believing that they can take risks without being shamed by other team members.’ That sounds rather extreme doesn’t it… it…
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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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To Mentor or to Mentee..
Humans have a need to learn and to help others. This is why we are curious and talk to each other, why most of us enjoy experiencing new things or places. However, Clutterbuck (2014) warns us that sometimes our need to help others, to pass on our wisdom, outweighs our recipient’s desire to learn, or…
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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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Imposter Syndrome…
The imposter syndrome: it can be a fleeting sensation that you only ever experience the once or one that cripples us with nerves at every available opportunity. I am the later. I hide my imposter syndrome behind jokes and constant re-questioning that can drive those around me mad. I become consumed with nervous energy and…
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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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