I went school this morning. It’s Day 2 of my doctoral residency and the first day of student presentations which led to interesting questions about time. How much time do we have? Who will decide when we are done? What if we go over time? Let’s get going, so much to do! Go, go, go. […]
hows and whys: Liberating structures, lean & curriculum mapping
There is a lot to be done at my workplace. We are building/ rebuilding a learning and training unit from the ground up. That means when it comes to gathering data, building databases, figuring out who needs what kinds of training and education as well as how to best build and deliver it, we have […]
Leading with our actions: A practical approach to affecting change in complex environments
To find Orbit around a corporation Hairball is to find a place of balance where you benefit from the physical, intellectual and philosophical resources of the organization without becoming entombed in the bureaucracy of the institution. If you are interested (and it is not for everyone), you can achieve Orbit by finding the personal courage […]
Building while flying
When they hired me for my new job, they told me that they needed to develop a competency-based framework for their organization, including new apprenticeships, connections with post-secondary institutions, and a strategy to more effectively integrating blended learning. I am now just over three months in and things are a little different than I was […]
finding what was missing
I am rolling into the third month at my new job. In most ways this job is a return to my roots, building a learning design team, developing curriculum maps, design documents, blueprints and storyboards. We discuss what needs to be learned and how best to present it. I talk about the use of data […]
Incommensurability of place
“What we are… is the long process of education of the will rather than the intellect… A well educated community, that is one with a disciplined intelligence, will be ready to take part in the new forum without serious disturbance.” ~ Robert Falconer, President of the University of Toronto in 1920 (as cited in McKillop) […]
The dance… Here to there (or there to here?)
We had a workshop called Creativity in the Open a little over a week ago, though it feels like it happened in a different lifetime. After the workshop there was a retirement party for our Irwin Devries. At that party, about 10-15 people from the workshop performed an interpretive dance. At the end of the […]
When it’s time to say good-bye
I’m getting ready to say good-bye to a work team (again). As I think about leaving, I stumbled across something I wrote a while back. Posting it here as a reminder to myself that some changes should hurt. And as a reminder to be thankful that this time I’m leaving great team intact; they will […]
What might help?
I’m thinking about these voices of protest who are enabled to be incredibly effective because of the scale and reach, on the exact same platform that enables all the harm it enables. I’ve been busy lately so I haven’t been on Twitter, or anywhere else, much. So when I popped in some time today and […]
Privilege, risk and cartwheels
I’m stalling. I need to clean the garage today, but instead I’m writing. It have been an eventful couple of weeks. I was screened out of a series of jobs where I live, because, from what I can tell, it is too risky to hire someone who is not doing the exact same job, right […]