Last night I attended an annual event with 500 of my closest friends and colleagues! That's a lot of people in one room, and a huge contrast to work events held by my previous employer. As a smaller, or "boutique" consulting firm, we would fly all of the Melbournians to Sydney, meet up with our colleagues and proceed to eat and drink until we
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
an interlude of a self indulgent kind
The past year, particularly the 2010/11 financial year (July to June) has been the most eventful I can remember.
It's hard not to reflect when a whole pile of things happen to you in a short period of time. Ahh! there's the first slip. When I write that these things "happened to me" I mean that most of them affected me and actually happened to other people.
June 2010 was looking OK! I was working on a project at Australia Post as a Training Manager, and only having stand-up fights with a couple of people a week. It was stressful, but at least I as in Melbourne. I was home one day checking emails, when I received a phone call. The caller was from Virgin Gyms. I had won a six month free membership to their brand new state-of-the-art gym that was coincidentally located across the road from work. I felt great! I started emailing a few people to tell them about it, when my phone rang again. "What have I won this time?" I muttered to myself, grinning like an idiot.
It was a woman's voice, vaguely familiar, then it hit me! My best mate's older sister. It was great to hear from her as I hadn't seen her in a long time, but through the dopey grinning afterglow of winning, I didn't immediately hear that something was very wrong.
It's hard not to reflect when a whole pile of things happen to you in a short period of time. Ahh! there's the first slip. When I write that these things "happened to me" I mean that most of them affected me and actually happened to other people.
June 2010 was looking OK! I was working on a project at Australia Post as a Training Manager, and only having stand-up fights with a couple of people a week. It was stressful, but at least I as in Melbourne. I was home one day checking emails, when I received a phone call. The caller was from Virgin Gyms. I had won a six month free membership to their brand new state-of-the-art gym that was coincidentally located across the road from work. I felt great! I started emailing a few people to tell them about it, when my phone rang again. "What have I won this time?" I muttered to myself, grinning like an idiot.
It was a woman's voice, vaguely familiar, then it hit me! My best mate's older sister. It was great to hear from her as I hadn't seen her in a long time, but through the dopey grinning afterglow of winning, I didn't immediately hear that something was very wrong.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Does putting an "e" or "i" in front of something make you want it or fear it??
When I was at University studying media at a lefty institution, Marshall McLuhan was the man. He's the one who said of mass media that "the medium is the message" and that "sport is the opiate of the masses". In Learning and Development, i think that the huge trend towards the use of eLearning instead of classroom training could easily be viewed as the medium overtaking the message.
People who know me well may be shocked to hear the the following statement has been uttered, yelled and written by me on numerous occasions lately: technology for the sake of technology benefits no one.
I'm a gadget junkie from way back. I should have been born in Japan. Remember minidisc players?
People who know me well may be shocked to hear the the following statement has been uttered, yelled and written by me on numerous occasions lately: technology for the sake of technology benefits no one.
I'm a gadget junkie from way back. I should have been born in Japan. Remember minidisc players?
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