This time last week, I was taking another trip out of my comfort zone as Alistair Nicholls had very kindly invited me to speak at the North West Business Breakfast organised by Manchester Business School. The title of my talk was Why Corporate L&D Needs to Change and How and it felt a good title to […]
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The slope of enlightenment
By Mike Collins on the 22nd March 2013 In my last blog alter egos I started to share some personal traits and experiences that led me in to the world of developing communities to support learning. It wasn’t an overnight thing and it’s still very much work in progress and I’m learning each day. I […]
Alter egos
By Mike Collins on the 5th March 2013 Since my last blog I’ve been reflecting on the latest and greatest #LDconnect unconference, spending a lot of time thinking about one of the topics we discussed “How do we get inside the learners heads!“. It was a very interesting discussion that we only really scratched the […]
Lets Connect, Lets #LDConnect
By Mike Collins on the 2nd February 2013 This week has been a mixed week. It started on a real high when I attended the second ever L&D Connect event and ended in a mighty low when I had to leave the Learning and Skills Exhibition early on the second day due to the dreaded […]
BILD-ing for the future (Part 2)
I shared the slides I used in my talk at the BILD event L&D : Looking to the Future in BILD-ing for the future (Part 1) and left the post posing two questions: What are your expectations for L&D now and the future? What are the barriers that you see or are experiencing that are […]
BILD-ing for the future (Part 1)
I recently spoke at the British Institute of Learning & Development (@BILDdev) networking event, the theme was L&D : Looking to the Future. A great experience where I met some cool new people and had some thought-provoking conversations. I’ve shared the slides that I used already and wanted to follow the slides up in more […]
Was it what I wanted it to be
So the curtains have drawn on what was a very successful Learning Live and I thoroughly enjoyed the two days and all it had to offer. I caught up with some of my lovely network and got to meet some fab people in the flesh who before the event had only been represented by 140 […]
A timeline for change
In my previous post Back on the Stage, I discussed the approaches I was considering using in my talk at Learning Live. I’ve only got 30 minutes so I’ve been thinking of ways to help those who might attend my session understand the journey that I’ve been on. I believe this also needs to include […]
You can’t force social…or can you?
The picture below shows my artistic scribblings on a table cloth from the (now not so) recent Connect HR Unconference “The power of a social engaged organisation“. We were asked to write things down for the afternoon sessions that would give us some meaty topics to discuss.You can see from what I wrote the sort […]
One Bad Egg
I feel as though I’ve not blogged for ages, it’s been a few weeks at least. It’s not that I’ve not been thinking about things rather that starting a new job does take its toll on your time and energy. Anyhoo this is something that I’ve wanted to get off my chest for a while […]