Learning "Digital Skills for the Workplace" sessions. These are in person workshops in Rochdale, sponsored by RBH and New Pioneers and delivered by No Worries IT Ltd

1. Halfway There!
Why are we here, where are we going, and what do we need to pack?
● Learning how to learn and embed our newly
acquired skills
● Use the tools available to improve our real
World existence
● If you want to get better with Spreadsheets,
create more spreadsheets and see how you
can manipulate data.
● If you want to be better at typing, word
processing, documenting, etc, type more,
create more, and document/journal your
journey. (self authoring)
● If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change
you!

2. Halfway There!
we’re living on a prayer.
● Learning how to learn and embed our newly
acquired skills
● Use the tools available to improve our real
World existence
● If you want to get better with Spreadsheets,
create more spreadsheets and see how you
can manipulate data.
● If you want to be better at typing, word
processing, documenting, type more, create
more, and document/journal your journey.
● If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change
you!

3. You Are The
Teacher!
No Worries IT are the facilitators,
providing access to resources you need
to educate yourselves.

4. How Is Any Of This Going To Benefit Me?
It’s Only The Tools We Use That Directly Benefit Us, Right Her and Right Now, That Build Solid Neural Pathways.
The More
Pathways The
Better!
The more ways we can
achieve something, the
more embedded that
process is.
Fire Together,
Wire Together!
Neurons that fire together
wire together is true..
Change How You
Think.
Panic and fear engage
amygdala, flight/fight. Not
good for problem solving.

5. Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

6. INNOVATION
“If you can dream – and not make dreams your master”
IDEA
How do we
develop/explore Ideas.
CONCEPT
How we communicate
those ideas, document,
present them is vital..
IMPLEMENTATION
From prototype to
production: Fail Fast, Fail
Often, Fail Better..
MARKETING
How to satisfy the needs:
“As a? I want to? So that I
can?.
CUSTOMER
Test, review, continuous
improvement, integration,
and CRM.

7. IDEA GENERATION AND
CONCRETIZATION
How are we going to come up with
innovative ideas?.
CONCEPT
DEFINITION
How are we going to sell that
idea to our interested parties
(collaborators)?
CONCEPT
EVALUATION /
SELECTION
Test, publish, test again, publish,
test, continuous
improvement/Integration.
LAUNCH
Always launch before you it’s
ready!!!!
A B C D
Ideation
Post its, Mind Mappers, Discussion

8. Ideation
Think about what businesses exist that 10/20 years ago you would have thought impossible.

9. A
B
C
E
D
Clear and
Understandable
Explain and
understand
Documentation
list the why’s, the where’s, the
who’s, etc, vital for future
troubleshooting.
Always Ship
Publish, release, perform, just
do it!!!!.
Version Control
Make sure you can update,
and revert..
Create A Collaboration Space
Google Drive, GitHub, Dropbox, NextCloud, Etc
It needs to be understood
from text, descriptions, etc
When we explain and
document, it really helps our
own understanding.

10. Log Your Ideas where?
Minder, Mind Mapper, Balsamique,
Trello.
Set a realistic set of
timelines
Break your tasks up into blocks of time.
Collaborate
Who are your peer reviewers,
collaborators, and where and how?.
Publish and measure
Feedback, feedback, feedback.
TOOLS
A good workman shouldn’t blame his tools, he should have the right tools.

11. Measure
How are we going to measure performance
A
B
C
D
E
BUSINESS ANALYTICS
Lots, but we’ll focus on Google Analytics
Bring, On-board, New Features
How are we going to incorporate new features into timelines..
TARGETS
How will we measure outcomes?.
COOPERATION
Make your team as big as you can..
MARKETS
How can we monetise, add value, etc?.

12. NIRVANA
Where would we like to be?
PRODUCT PORTFOLIO
Your projects are your portfolio.
Employers, etc, would rather
see/hear/read about your
projects that a CV.
JOB SECURITY
Develop identified rare and
valuable skills.
IMAGE BUILDING
Our professional self image,
project presentation image,
etc.
PUBLIC WELFARE
How has this helped society?
PROFIT MAXIMIZATION
No money, no honey!.
GROWTH
Can I expand, repeat, etc
COMPETITION
Competition is good, check it
out and do regular SWOT
analysis.
CUSTOMIZATION
Continuous Improvement and
integration, plus configurability.

13. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
ENVIRONMENT
Incredibly variable factors..
A
EXPERIENCE
Our experience of all those factors..
B
TECHNOLOGICAL
INFLUENCES
Rapid development, automation of
everything, Industry 4.0… IOT.
C
What Impacts On Our Lives
Our jobs, products, social, etc, etc, etc

14. JOINT VENTURES
Work with other interested parties.
STRATEGIC ALLIANCE
I like the sound of that. Working towards a
strategic goal..
VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE
Collaborative big projects
PROJECT-RELATED COOPERATION
Open source, github, bitbucket, gitlab etc.
Humanity Is Wonderful
How we share/support/encourage each other.
FORMS OF
COOPERATION

15. Improve, Integrate
Once again, never settle!
COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGE
INTEGRATION INTO PRODUCTS
FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
Early adopters, disruptors, etc
FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
Innovation, prototyping, etc.
KEY TECHNOLOGY
Can’t live without it..
BASIC TECHNOLOGY
Digital/Web Literacy