eLearning Trends To Watch Out For In 2022
When the pandemic first broke out, everybody hoped that it would be over soon and that it would be business as usual within a few months, if not weeks. However, our worst fears came true as COVID-19 ravaged the entire globe and probably became the biggest pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918. Smart […]
A More ‘Us’ Balanced Business Scorecard?
The Balanced Business Scorecard is a useful model that encourages organisations to measure effectiveness and success in a more rounded way, considering alongside financial goals, internal processes, customers, and learning and growth. Despite its obvious benefits however, the traditional Balanced Business Scorecard always felt a bit sterile and introspective to me. For example, when talking […]
Obstacles, Obsessions & Enrichment 2021 in Review
This has been a bit of a confusing year to look back on as it has had so many chapters and quite a number of surprises. My partner Jack and I started the year in lockdown in Highbury Stadium and are ending it in relative freedom in a converted Church in Tufnell Park (more on […]
The Algorithm is Sick
I see more clearly than ever that the algorithms that run our social media platforms are sick – they are anxious, depressed, and mentally unstable. More importantly, just as we created them and imbued them with our own immature consciousness, they are now returning the favour, creating us at scale in their own damaged […]
Why Feedback is the Greatest Gift you can Give
Amongst the very kind and generous feedback I received in response to last week’s blog was this from the wonderful Lottie Skuthe-Cook of Grey Panther Management: “You really do have such an eloquence with words, it’s amazing. I love reading your stuff from a pure language point of view AND equally much from a content […]
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
You think, ‘Why would anyone want to see me again in a movie? And I don’t know how to act anyway, so why am I doing this?’ Meryl Streep, 2002 Between working as a Barrister and founding The Conscious Professional I had the privilege of training lay and expert witnesses around the world for […]
Why You Think You Can’t Meditate
If there is one belief that I would like to shake in my lifetime, it is the dominant perception that meditation is difficult. I hear ‘I can’t meditate because’, and then comes a laundry list of reasons, which all sound rather valid and impressive, but have absolutely nothing to do with a human being’s ability […]
Bringing our Whole Selves to Work
I was recently interviewed by Andrea Newton for her Really Useful Conversations podcast where I talked about the increase in hate crime in the UK (with particular focus on the LGBTQ+ community) and the impact this might have on people’s willingness to bring their whole selves to work. Getting involved in the podcast reminded me […]
Gamification For Sales Training
Whether it is a product or a services organization, the salesforce plays a vital role in keeping the engine running. The organization does well when its sales teams bring in new leads and closes the deals. The sales teams need to be motivated and well prepared for their jobs. In one of my previous articles, 4 […]
Inside the Stretch Zone
As a teenager, brought up in a small village in the West Country, the idea of living anywhere else seemed inconceivable. I was very sure that I’d always live close, as generations of my family had. The problem was I was quite talented academically and faced a general expectation that I would go to university; […]
Show Racism the Red Card
Like most of the country, we were glued to our televisions just over a week ago watching England battle it out in the Euro final. (Well, actually, I have a confession to make; I was exactly two minutes late bringing the food through to the lounge and missed Luke Shaw’s brilliant goal!) It was fantastic to […]
Crediting Your Emotional Bank
One of the more surprising discoveries when we moved to France was that almost no-one here has a credit card. Many banks don’t even offer them, except in the form of a deferred debit card (where the full balance is cleared every month). It feels like the attitude to personal debt here is very different, […]
Conscious Leadership in 2021
The world is crying out for Conscious Leaders who are aware, awake, and connected as they rise to the challenges of our times. For millennia, human beings have embarked on journeys of self-discovery, pursuing knowledge, power, health, wealth, purpose, happiness and excellence. The human drive to look outwards, go further, run faster and build taller […]
Six Lessons for Flex Working from Flex Learning
Flexible learning can teach us simple, powerful, and easily implementable lessons on flex-working. Flex work is an umbrella term used for several work arrangements, such as flexible work hours and remote working, etc., wherein employees are given greater freedom to schedule their work obligations. As an L&D practitioner and a strong proponent of flexible working, […]
Ordinary People. Who?
Ordinary People: It’s a phrase we see/hear all the time and it really bugs me. I most recently spotted it in response to a post about meeting Richard Branson, where someone had commented: “Thanks for sharing this wonderful story. To me the best leaders are also great people who make time for ordinary people.” […]
Me, a Left-Hand Drive Dog and Normality
A few weeks ago, following our move to France, I was finally reunited with my two horses. They’d been due to arrive in the first week of December, but their move was delayed by numerous Covid and Brexit related barriers, which at times felt insurmountable. The biggest problem, post Brexit, was that the folks at Defra […]
THE FUTURE OF WORKPLACE LEARNING IS DIGITAL
There is no doubt the Covid-19 pandemic has changed our lives in lots of ways, and whilst we can all clearly see plenty of downsides, there are positives emerging, such as the profound impact it has had on learning and development (L&D) strategies. Revealing research Research from Fosway Group, Europe’s leading HR analyst, reveals how […]
How To Think Outside of The Box
Through the pandemic, we have all had a good moment to stop and think about what we are doing and what is important. As the world reboots and splutters to a start, many are emerging with a keener focus on aligning their doing around sustainable outcomes for work, community, and planet, along with a renewed […]
How to Use Microlearning in Flow of employees work
The way employees work in an organization has radically changed over the past decade. They spend a considerable amount of time searching for information on a wide variety of devices in between an onslaught of messages, emails, sudden meetings, and other distractions. In such a scenario, where they could find time for continuous learning to […]
21 Years of Resilience
A few customers have reminded me that Glasstap is now 21 years old! Which makes me think I should be feeling grown up, or something. I’m not, but it has encouraged me reflect on a key skill that I’ve perhaps not always recognised I possess; that of resilience. We’ve probably all doubted our resilience at […]
