In February 2009 Fiona Smith reported in the Australian Financial on the most recent (till then) Gallup poll of 1000 workers. The poll showed 79% of workers as either not engaged, or actively disengaged. [...]

I have been asked by people how the UnConference will be different from regular ”conferences”. The first Learning Cafe UnConference is being held in Sydney on 16th Feb 2012 and coming along very nicely. This gathering of [...]

We work in teams within organisations and organisations form part of a larger community of suppliers, distributors and customers. In the past, and there continues to be, some great examples of organisations providing learning [...]

In order to understand a tool, you have to use it. In order to understand its value you have to apply its use to something to see whether it improves a task or an [...]

The fix I am of course referring to is the good old prefix, more specifically the prefix used to identify types of learning delivery methods. The most notorious being the ‘e’ in e-learning and [...]

The Freedictionary provides the following description of disillusionment; “having lost one’s ideals, illusions, or false ideas about someone or something; disenchanted” I’ve been spending a lot of time recently thinking about the role of [...]

No Sales – Pure Discussion – Gathering of Peers We are pleased to announce the first Learning Cafe UnConference on 16 Feb, Thursday in Sydney on the theme. Near Future of Learning in Australia [...]

The most recent Learning Cafe Webinar focussed on finding, sharing and growing internal expertise.  Some of the discussion was about knowledge sharing and it made me reflect on an approach I used some years [...]

  What is an Unconference? This event will be very different to any standard conference you have been to before.  If you are not sure what an unconference is, start here, browse a little and [...]

As an enterprise, Acme Corporation is “dipping its toes” into social media. It might be said it’s adopting a cautious, almost experimental approach to the concept. While the organisation has invested in social technology, [...]