A New Year Brings A New Continent – Hola 2019!
Wow, so as we get close to welcoming in 2019 there is the potential for me to get to yet another country on a brand new continent – the JFI brand just keeps on moving around the world fast! As a global learning and training consultancy, I love spreading the message about agile learning methods and […]
Giving Women Around The World A Business Voice
JFI Radio ‘LIVE’ our online radio show is involved in UNESCO’s World Radio Day on 13 February 2018, and as you can see from the map below, radio stations from around the world use this as an opportunity to highlight the value of radio today. The 2018 theme is ‘Radio and Sports’ and one […]
Make our education system relevant for the 21st Century
In my role as an educator working on Post Graduate Masters courses here in the UK and abroad, I often see iGen students (aka Gen Z: born 1996 to 2009) in their early 20’s in my classes from around the world. Many have grown up with education systems similar to what is being highlighted by […]
Claim a free 20-min voice coaching session
If you aren’t already subscribing to podcasts via iTunes, now’s the perfect opportunity to get started and claim a FREE 20-minute voice coaching session. The beauty of using iTunes (and the Podcast app for iOS) is that by subscribing, each time there’s a new episode from JFI Radio ‘LIVE’, you’ll automatically get it! JFI Radio […]
Can you force people to learn?
Last week during my University lecture on the module ‘Designing and Delivering Training’, I suggested to the class that there is no benefit in trying to force people in organisations to attend business training to learn things if they don’t want to. Of course it’s possible to coerce people to attend training. Maybe even make […]
Using an online media space to share information and key learning
With the growth of online chat areas and the use of social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yammer, YouTube, VKontakte, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, MySpace, Tencent QQ, WeChat, Renren, Youku, Xing and various others; you would think that by now, we’d all be quite adept at sharing information online with our friends and work […]
Taking a chance to try new things
The picture in this post has a great back story. It was taken in 2002, and featured in the local press, recording the opening, by the then Mayor of Bracknell, of one of my first Knowledge Management Centres in Berkshire, here in the UK. At that time, I was Head of Organisational Development in the […]
Using an online media space to share information and key learning
With the growth of online chat areas and the use of social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yammer, YouTube, VKontakte, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, MySpace, Tencent QQ, WeChat, Renren, Youku, Xing and various others; you would think that by now, we’d all be quite adept at sharing information online with our friends and work […]
The world of learning through webinars
As I go through the audio set up in preparation for a training webinar series that my colleague is starting today, it makes me wonder about just how widely used webinars are going to be used in the future. They’ve certainly become very popular during the last few years as a vehicle for training and […]
Independent team player
My learning journey continues… One of the most exciting things about working as an independent learning practitioner, trainer and consultant is choosing when, and who, you want to work with. Sometimes it’s lovely to design and work on your own and serve your clients with solutions that meet their business needs. In our super-fast connected […]