Alumni: a graduate or former student of a specific school, college, or university. For a very long time I didn’t understand what this word meant. When I was at university I heard it mentioned in passing, and then after I finished [1] it kept cropping up on various marketing propaganda…
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“What do you mean, ‘a workshop’?”
For centuries the word ‘workshop’ simply referred to a place where goods were manufactured or repaired. To begin with, these workshops were solely singular rooms, but increasingly they became buildings or complexes where many makers would share resources and collaborate. Alongside these workshops, in today’s connected world we now have…
Building the 10 key skills for 2020
We all know the world is changing quickly, and that we all need to build and develop new skills to stay relevant and on top of what’s coming around the corner. The World Economic Forum earmarked the following 10 skills as the most valuable ones to have in 2020: Judgment…
Why the future of learning is in the middle
Become a workshop creator and magical things can happen The view was spectacular and the light poured in. In a top-floor conference room located in one of Manhattan’s most noteworthy skyscrapers, it was time to close the door, ignore the rest of the world, lean up against the window, and…
Talking to Humans: No intro, no get-go
The value of the introduction when you’re running workshops, leading a class, or doing most types of speaking to an audience Skip your introduction and something happens. At least some of your audience will sense something’s out of kilter. Perhaps you have a name tag, or said hello to some…