They’re obvious, but often missed. They’re not glamorous, entertaining, jaw-dropping, or photogenic. But they make a lasting impact, and will only take up about a minute each. The top and the tail. The beginning and the end. These aren’t hard pieces to implement but it’s amazing how often they get…
Posts tagged blog-home-teaching
Workshop Slide Deck (guided): Lifecycles in products, companies, and careers
Introduction This is a workshop session I designed and facilitated in Summer 2018 (annotated and abbreviated version, with some classroom exercises and notes included for other educators to reference). Here’s the Slideshare version, although this annotated one is far better of course 😉 I created this as part of the growth…
My Podcast Gear: recording, editing, and publishing
I’ve learned a lot from creating a podcast series: from asking good questions and improving my spoken delivery; to sales, marketing, and audio engineering. As much as podcasts are a hot trend right now and plenty of people are jumping on podcasting in part because of that, I do genuinely…
Trend Spotting: How to identify what’s coming next
A workshop session I designed and facilitated in Summer 2018 (annotated and abbreviated version, with some classroom exercises and notes included) Yes, it’s that time again – I’m back with another of my annotated slide deck adventures. This time we’re diving into Trends. I created this short session as part of…
The rise of Edutainment
Education as business development (and beyond), teachers becoming more than just the new DJs, and the foundations of a big shift that’s here to stay. At the start of 2018 I drafted an article entitled ‘Education is the new business development’. It sat in my draft posts folder for…
How to facilitate your first class, workshop or training session
My most recent collaboration project launched last week at New York Climate Week. Sustainable Foundations is a workshop series and email course helping to unpack and demystify sustainability for modern business. During its creation I took some time to think about things I’ve learnt putting together similar education experiences [1], and…
Why teachers are the new DJs
Three years ago I made a fairly unorthodox career transition; moving from booking bands and DJs to building learning and education programs (amongst a couple of other things). Those who know me are probably aware I like to look at seemingly disparate disciplines and explore the connections between them. I…