The heartbeat of the IT world isn’t technology; it’s the people. After all, we work in companies to have company! Whatever our relationship with each other – be it as a peer, manager, or coach – learning is often the essential unit of currency that’s necessary to move our relationships and businesses forward. Unfortunately – and sometimes unexpectedly – the people you work with probably aren’t very good at learning. How can we teach our colleagues, direct reports, and team members to be better learners; and even blossom into continuous learners? I’m a firm believer that practicing introspection is the first step to making your environment conducive to continuous learning.
Having been a tester for years, I realized that at work I concentrated mostly on the daily problems and tasks that need to be done. I didn’t pay attention to my learning progress. Until one day it hit me: I realized that one of the ways we learn is finding or making mistakes. Being aware of a mistake and realizing why it happened and how to solve it is a beginning of our learning. Same as a bug report. It’s a mistake in the software that needs to be repaired. Identifying the bug and working together to find a way to prevent the same bug to happen again is a learning point.
Here's our slides from today's #BankOnSocial webinar - discussing how to create your own brand ambassador/employee advocacy program to enhance your marketing and branding initiatives.
Recent presentation for Parent Community at Academia Cotopaxi, Quito Ecuador.
Interested in working with Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano? Contact Silvia via http://www.globallyconnectedlearning.com
Having been a tester for years, I realized that at work I concentrated mostly on the daily problems and tasks that need to be done. I didn’t pay attention to my learning progress. Until one day it hit me: I realized that one of the ways we learn is finding or making mistakes. Being aware of a mistake and realizing why it happened and how to solve it is a beginning of our learning. Same as a bug report. It’s a mistake in the software that needs to be repaired. Identifying the bug and working together to find a way to prevent the same bug to happen again is a learning point.
Here's our slides from today's #BankOnSocial webinar - discussing how to create your own brand ambassador/employee advocacy program to enhance your marketing and branding initiatives.
Recent presentation for Parent Community at Academia Cotopaxi, Quito Ecuador.
Interested in working with Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano? Contact Silvia via http://www.globallyconnectedlearning.com
Made to measure: Trends in personalised digital learning Brightwave Group
Personalisation across all forms of digital media is opening a wealth of opportunity for learning and development. Meg discusses the various trends of personalisation and how you can utilise these in the digital learning mix to deliver real impact for your organisation – greater employee engagement, higher retention rates and increased speed to competency.
This presentation was delivered by Meg Stevenson at Brightwave Group's 'Up close and personal: Optimising the learner experience' event, 19th November 2015, at The Brewery, London.
Organizational Developer 101 - Agile TO MeetupJason Little
There's much the agile community can learn from the OD community and vice-versa. Here we merged 2 basic OD elements by using the Management 3.0 Meddlers game and how structure change is but one small aspect of organizational change
Workshop culture for a better workplaceAlison Coward
Slides from my talk at All About People 2016.
How can you take the energy and feeling of a great collaborative workshop into the rest of your organisation?
Great Ideas! 2013 Idea Lab
Making Ideas Happen: A Strengths-Based Learning Experience
Don’t let your flash of brilliance fade away. Learn by doing in this session by taking the Appreciative Inquiry and G.R.O.W. methods out for a spin to better refine your great idea and articulate next steps to make it happen. Harness the support of your colleagues and community to bring your idea to life, and walk away with a plan to move your idea forward despite the resistance you might face.
The art of letting go: Supporting informal and social learningBrightwave Group
Including social and informal learning in your digital technology strategy is now a common theme - but how can you go from the ideas to action - and success? This presentation discusses the latest approaches adopted by forward-thinking organisations, together with practical tips and suggestions on how to plan, execute and sustain informal learning initiatives.
This presentation was first delivered at the eLearning Network's conference "Beyond 'click next'…digital learning solutions come of age" event on Wednesday, 11th November 2015. Brightwave sponsored the event and contributed to the programme.
Agile Mindset Ladder is a Team Centric approach to cultivate the Agile Mindset step-by-step through Agile Coaching. Alternatively, Agile Mindset Ladder is a pathway to reach high level of Agility.
A personal retrospective is a regularly practiced ritual, during which you take time and think about yourself. You reflect on what happened and what is currently happening in your life. You try to learn from these experiences and derive new goals and insights for yourself.
To do a personal retrospective you typically have a set of exercises you do. These exercises help you to find the information and extract knowledge and understanding from them.
Made to measure: Trends in personalised digital learning Brightwave Group
Personalisation across all forms of digital media is opening a wealth of opportunity for learning and development. Meg discusses the various trends of personalisation and how you can utilise these in the digital learning mix to deliver real impact for your organisation – greater employee engagement, higher retention rates and increased speed to competency.
This presentation was delivered by Meg Stevenson at Brightwave Group's 'Up close and personal: Optimising the learner experience' event, 19th November 2015, at The Brewery, London.
Organizational Developer 101 - Agile TO MeetupJason Little
There's much the agile community can learn from the OD community and vice-versa. Here we merged 2 basic OD elements by using the Management 3.0 Meddlers game and how structure change is but one small aspect of organizational change
Workshop culture for a better workplaceAlison Coward
Slides from my talk at All About People 2016.
How can you take the energy and feeling of a great collaborative workshop into the rest of your organisation?
Great Ideas! 2013 Idea Lab
Making Ideas Happen: A Strengths-Based Learning Experience
Don’t let your flash of brilliance fade away. Learn by doing in this session by taking the Appreciative Inquiry and G.R.O.W. methods out for a spin to better refine your great idea and articulate next steps to make it happen. Harness the support of your colleagues and community to bring your idea to life, and walk away with a plan to move your idea forward despite the resistance you might face.
The art of letting go: Supporting informal and social learningBrightwave Group
Including social and informal learning in your digital technology strategy is now a common theme - but how can you go from the ideas to action - and success? This presentation discusses the latest approaches adopted by forward-thinking organisations, together with practical tips and suggestions on how to plan, execute and sustain informal learning initiatives.
This presentation was first delivered at the eLearning Network's conference "Beyond 'click next'…digital learning solutions come of age" event on Wednesday, 11th November 2015. Brightwave sponsored the event and contributed to the programme.
Agile Mindset Ladder is a Team Centric approach to cultivate the Agile Mindset step-by-step through Agile Coaching. Alternatively, Agile Mindset Ladder is a pathway to reach high level of Agility.
A personal retrospective is a regularly practiced ritual, during which you take time and think about yourself. You reflect on what happened and what is currently happening in your life. You try to learn from these experiences and derive new goals and insights for yourself.
To do a personal retrospective you typically have a set of exercises you do. These exercises help you to find the information and extract knowledge and understanding from them.
Corporate or Non-Profit PR Career Pathways: What's the Best Fit for You? Aeris Communications
A dynamic keynote address given by Steve R. Smith '89, MS '93 and Kevin R. Petschow '81 to faculty and students at COM Week 2014 hosted by the School of Communication at Illinois State University.
Here's a presentation I did for SMEI (Sales & Marketing Executives International) in May 2014. To hear my voice over the slides, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnRvVBbQpk4&feature=youtu.be
If you have questions or want to discuss your leadership career, contact me via http://IdeaShape.com
For more on SMEI:
http://www.smei.org/events/event_details.asp?id=431732
The digital revolution is here and it’s changing how we work, and how we learn. And while technology is powerful in many ways, it can’t replicate our innately human traits; listening, teamwork, empathy, leadership, building relationships, building trust, and so on. What if we could leverage technology to support and improve these more human traits? How can we find a balance and better yet, use technology to support the effectiveness of all of our human interactions? Learn how Insights is embracing technology to leverage and enhance our humanity.
In this webinar, you’ll discover:
How to keep people at the heart of your organization in a tech-driven world and how this will positively impact your business outcomes
Learning theories that support a future of tech-enabled, human relationships
The future of learning and how to cater to the needs of tomorrow’s learners
Want Leadership Buy-in? Don't say the "S" Word!Angela Johnson
Are your efforts in talking to leaders about the Scrum or Agile adoption at your organization resulting in positive change? Or more frustration and confusion? In this session we'll explore how to have more effective conversations with leaders without using the word Scrum. Or the word Agile either!
Women in High Tech Project: Moving from Discussion to ActionKaren Holtzblatt
High tech thought leader Karen Holtzblatt introduces the Women in High Tech Retention Project and then shares key factors for retention and interventions. For more information:
http://www.incontextdesign.com/womenintech/
karen@incontextdesign.com
@kholtzblatt
Greenwich Leadership Partners and Williston Northampton School presentation from NAIS Annual Conference 2015 on Strategy, Faculty Voice, and the Hard Work of Implementation.
Why Teams and Culture Matter: Leadership lessonsVassil Popovski
Why culture is the most important pillar of every successful company? Why having a great team is a recipe for achieving great results? What are the traits of efficient and successful teams? How to build high performing teams? If you want to know the answers to these questions - come and join Vassil’s session on ISTA 2018. He will share a lot of stories from his 20 years of experience and will also support his conclusions with results from studies in the filed of building and leading teams.
Improving Veterinary Team Communication - AAEVT 2018Oculus Insights
Dr. Mike Pownall presented on improving communication between veterinary team members for the annual convention of the American Association of Equine Veterinary Technicians.
Team Lead Succeed – Helping You And Your Team Achieve High-Performance TeamworkAPMDonotuse
APM event hosted by Wessex Branch on 28 September 2023.
Speaker: Nick Fewings, Managing Director, Ngagementworks
Only 10% of teams achieve high-performance, with 50% being average and 40% dysfunctional.
In this session, delivered by award-winning conference speaker Nick Fewings, and author of best-seller Team Lead Succeed, Nick will share his 30+ years of leading teams and facilitating team development.
Nick has profiled 1,000 of individuals and worked with 100s of teams.
Those attending will benefit from understanding;
The importance of knowing WHO is in your team, both from a behavioural and technical skills aspect.
The 16 areas of high-performance teamwork, and their importance.
In March 2022, Nick Fewings, MD of Ngagementworks, published Team Lead Succeed, based on his 30+years of both leading operational and project teams, and subsequently facilitating team development around the world.
It has become a best seller, has 96% 5-star reviews, has been read on 5 of the 7 continents, and has been accepted for the prestigious Business Book Awards 2023.
In this interactive session, Nick will share learning from Team Lead Succeed that can be applied immediately and make a positive difference to your teamwork. Nick will share the importance of knowing both WHO is in your team and also HOW effective your teamwork is.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
2. “People don’t buy WHAT
you do, they buy WHY
you do it.”
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
3. Why? (Motivation)
• It aligns with one of my goals in life; to create.
• I’ve lived this journey in my own life.
• Lime + Rum + Mint + Ice =
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
4. How? | Abstract (Process)
The heartbeat of the IT world isn’t technology; it’s the people. After
all, we work in companies to have company! Whatever our
relationship with each other – be it as a peer, manager, or coach –
learning is often the essential unit of currency that’s necessary to move
our relationships and businesses forward. Unfortunately – and
sometimes unexpectedly – the people you work with probably aren’t
very good at learning. How can we teach our colleagues, direct
reports, and team members to be better learners; and even blossom
into continuous learners? I’m a firm believer that practicing
introspection is the first step to making your environment conducive to
continuous learning.
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
6. What? | Learning Outcomes (Product)
• Be able to articulate how introspection corresponds to continuous
learning.
• Take home tangible examples of techniques that you can use to
practice individual and group introspection.
• Introspect on your own goals and values and be able to correlate your
goals and values with learning activities you can undertake that are
aligned with them.
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
11. Current Learning Reality
“Align yourself with activities
that will drive you to learn.”
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
12. Chris Argyris “Success in the
marketplace increasingly
depends on learning, yet
most people don’t know
how to learn.”
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
13. Chris Argyris “If learning is to persist,
managers and
employees must also
look inward.”
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
24. Continuous Learning | Why? | IT World
“Learning is the essential
unit of progress for
startups.”
[and existing
businesses!]
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
26. Continuous Learning | Why? | Humans
Creativity & Innovation
X
Innovation is not just new inventions; it’s finding new value.
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
27. Introspection to Continuous Learning
Introspection
Self-Directed
LearningContinuous
Learning
Continuous
Improvement
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
30. Introspection | Individually | Mental
• At the end of every day, ask yourself a set of mindfulness questions.
Examples:
• What did I do today to improve communication with my manager and peers?
• What actions did I take today to learn and grow?
• Whom did I thank today, and who recognized me?
• Was I mindful today of our company’s long-term goals?
• How engaged was I at work today?
• What did I do today to improve communication with my team?
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
33. Introspection | Group | Mental
“Agile blurs the line between work and life because, to do agile well, we
ask people to bring their whole selves to the endeavor at hand.”
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
42. Personal Maps | About
• To get to know your colleagues better, you’ve gotta get to know
yourself first!
• Mixes surface level and deeper information.
• Individual and group level introspection.
• A lot to ask?
Credit:
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
43. Personal Maps | Instructions
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
Please write nicely!
44. Personal Maps | Instructions
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
45. Personal Maps | My Personal Map
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
46. Personal Maps | Your Personal Map
• Pass your map to the person next to you.
• Each person will present their peer’s map to the rest of the group.
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
47. Personal Maps | Team Personal Map
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
48. Personal Maps | In Closing
• Me - “Goals” and “Values” paths on this map caused me to make
intentional choices about what I want to learn; and keep me
motivated to learn.
• You - What is one learning activity you could undertake in the near
future that aligns with your goals and/or values?
• Write it down on your personal map.
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
50. Debrief | About
• Way to introspect and retrospect on an activity and re-inforce
learning.
• Can be done in private, 1-on-1, or with a team.
• Best done right after an activity ends.
Credit:
Dan Neumann Susan K. DiFabio
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
51. Debrief | Instructions
• 5 slides with questions to prompt discussion about this session
(presentation and activity).
• Each group will discuss each slide together for 2 minutes.
• When 2 minutes is up, we’ll pull back and groups will share what they
talked about with the entire room.
• This is a chance for me to get feedback!
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
52. Debrief | Feelings
•What did you like?
•What did you dislike?
•What did you long for?
•What are you bursting to say?
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
54. Debrief | Meaning
•What surprised you?
•What did you discover about others?
•What did you discover about yourself?
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
55. Debrief | Application
•How might this activity be useful to you?
•How might this activity be useful to your
team(s)?
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
56. Debrief | What’s Next?
•What could you do?
•What do you have a passion to do?
•What experiments could you try?
•What do you plan to do?
@JeremyWillets; Path to Agility 2016
Talked about the Why, How, and What – let’s go on a journey.
Current job
Learning as part of job responsibilities
Peer motivation element to learning
You need to “pull” learning to you – nobody’s going to feed it to you.
Dealt with this when trying to convey Agile to smart people!
Talked about my learning journey, let’s move on to introspection.
Examining yourself, analytically, trying to figure out what you want from your job, from life, from your relationships, etc.
Getting to know who you are. Will ultimately give you the skill set to teach and coach other people – whether it’s as a parent, manager, co-worker, etc.
Team level
Getting to know your co-workers.
Create personal bonds that go past employee level
Go deeper as a team.
Our field demands it.
Whether you’re Agile or not; regardless of what Agile process you use.
We, as humans, need it.
Born with an innate desire to learn and stretch our learning muscles.
If we cut off that desire, we lose a piece of what it means to be human.
Learning triggers something in us and makes us happy
The way people feel in the workplace has a direct impact on the work they produce
Continuous learning is a way to re-discover our creativity and capacity to innovate:
Creativity and innovation can’t happen in a vacuum.
Talked about my learning journey, introspection, and how introspection correlates to continuous learning; let’s talk about methods for introspection.
Solitary Physical Exercise
Happiness vs. Joy; Passion vs. Purpose
These words may seem synonymous in nature, but what do they mean to you?
How do they interplay with one another?
Bringing your “whole” self to work
Being comfortable enough with yourself to bring the entirety of who you are to the workplace.
Striving for wholeness at work as method of learning RE: our company and our people - extraordinary things happen when you do this:
Agile Retrospectives
A whole litany of techniques available that can dig deep or only touch the surface.
Check-Ins
“I feel…”
Emotional level set of the stage as the opening of a meeting
Legos as window inside who you and your team are. Lego Serious Play
Very Agile type of planning tool, even though it’s methodology agnostic (might have some SAFe applications)
Divide in to groups (if not already).
Talked about my learning journey, introspection, how introspection correlates to continuous learning, and methods for introspection. Let’s do an exercise that has some introspection baked in to it.
On the Happy Melly site, it’s framed as an activity to get to know your team better; but the first step in this activity is actually to look at yourself (introspect).
The exercise asks for surface level information, such as where you live and work. But it also asks for deeper information, such as what you value and what your personal goals are. It requires a certain level of introspection at the personal level.
If you’re conducting this exercise within a team, it allows for team level introspection.
I will acknowledge that it might be asking a lot for attendees to introspect “on the spot” in the presence of strangers. At a minimum, I will ask attendees to participate in this activity and view it as a practice attempt, whereby they’ll learn about this technique (and be able to take it home and teach it to others).
I will ask that attendees take a piece of paper (either from their own notebook or from the blank papers at each table) and copy the slide.
Attendees will have 5 minutes to populate their maps.
Don’t feel like sharing something - just leave that node blank.
Questions before we begin?
Will someone read my personal map out to the group? (From “Home” clockwise to “Goals”.)
Making music & this conference talk
Another way to do this with a smaller group of people.
Your tapping in to different bits of introspection in some of those nodes; the commonality can be powerful and unifying.
After all personal maps have been presented, I will ask attendees to return their peer’s map to them.
Talked about my learning journey, introspection, how introspection correlates to continuous learning, and methods for introspection. We did an exercise that has some introspection baked in to it.
Fun, creativity, experimentation
Learning was kind of a “pull” system
“Brass tacks” – you need to have skills.
standardized testing
Learning was kind of a “push” system
Environment is fun again!
A mix of both – discovering who you are, but then realizing that you can’t be Peter Pan any longer.
You have to grow up and go out in to the real world.
Learning was a mixture of “pull” and “push” (I went to a liberal arts college, after all)
First, entry level job
Learning and solidifying the practices of the org. you joined.
Learning definitely was “push” system – it was squarely geared around the learning necessary to do my job. There was ZERO continuous learning.
Your new organization might be Agile, but it also might not be.
Pyramidal org. chart, where you can “climb the ladder”
First, entry level job
Might very well be diametrically be opposed to what you were taught when you were young.
Current job
A new education
Technical Writing
After 5 years, transitioned to a job that required me to learn.
Then I heard about this; and it changed my life.
I realized the values in the agile manifesto are in our DNA.
Modern business has slowly sucked them out of us and caused us to perceive them as wrong.
And Pablo Picasso was quoted as saying, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain one when we grow up.” If we are all creative. All innovators. How do we keep experimenting and discovering as adults? Can our creativity stay alight in our corporate lives?"
Sir Ken Robinson TED Talk
The extraordinary capacities that children have for innovation. Growing up we are naturally creative, inquisitive and with exceptional talent, which Sir Ken believes is squandered during our education. By the time we reach adulthood, our creativity has been literally ‘educated out of us’ by the barriers of school, society and corporate business.
If we are all creative. All innovators. How do we keep experimenting and discovering as adults? Can our creativity stay alight in our corporate lives?"
Mindfulness
Khan academy example of kids doing this during the course of their day
Covey’s “Sharpening the Saw”
When you learn something truly valuable, internalize it, introspect on how you can apply it, and attempt to teach it to someone within 48 hours.
You end up listening more like a teacher (coach) instead of a student.
You also show off what you know so that others who haven’t been exposed to this idea can learn and potentially take it a different way.
[consider creating some sort of takeaway handout based on this idea for the material to resonate]