By Mike Collins on the 9th August 2013 I recently attended a workshop entitled “Getting the most from your Apprentice” hosted by the Apprentice Academy. It was an interesting session that I wanted to play back, as it looked at starting work through the eyes of 16-18 yr old. Without showing my age too much […]
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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 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 […]
Live Learning @ Learning Live
Only a week to go before my Learning Live session and as described in Back on the Stage I was excited about ‘treading the boards’ again and was still deciding how I was going to run the session. Thanks to reading the post via Twitter, David Goddin aka @Changecontinuum suggested I speak with Jon Bartlett […]
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 […]
M-Learning – Matrix NOT Mobile
I like science fiction, being a self-confessed geek I guess it goes with the territory really. I remember watching Star Trek as a kid every Wednesday at 6pm, it was a ritual in our house. I have fond memories watching James T Kirk and the Enterprise crew boldly going where no man had been before. […]
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 […]
Say what you see
I always remember Saturday evenings as being magical. It was family time, we’d play games and then be treated to some Saturday night telly. For those that can remember we’re talking TV gold; Beadles About, You’ve Been Framed (with Jeremy Beadle), Family Fortunes (with Les Dennis), Gladiators (with John Fashanu & Ulrika Johnson) and my […]