Thoughts on all things learning and development. Vaisakhi, how Sikhs became the Khalsa. I want to commit myself to you. Feed me, feed me now.

Work and workplace, now and when. Echoes in a shallow bay. A couple of weeks ago I was going to write this post. I was going to claim that workplace is a shallow bay. I reflected that when I compiled the Elemental Workplace. I did so from the perspective of both practitioner and occupant, raiding only common and practica.

After 44 posts and more than 19,000 views, this will be the last post on the Learning Snippets blog. A little over 18 months ago, I took what was for me a brave step into a whole new world and wrote my first ever blog post.

Expediency should never come at the Expense of Excellence. You may be asking why I am telling that story? It made me think about managing performance. As an HR practitioner, I advise and support managers and business owners on how best to manage performance concerns. Almost always, I find out that performance has been a concern for a period of time and the manager has known that it was an issue but never did anything about it and hoped the problem would go away and resolve itself.

A dash of synchronicity and a heaping spoonful of sarcasm. Was it money? Was it too much attention? .

Usually associated with mechanics and measurement, checking if an instrument is measuring to a fine degree of precision, I think recalibration is a great metaphor for a process of taking stock and making changes. Was the way I did things working, or was I just doing things that way because it was comfortable? .

Insight, innovation and inspiration from a Human Resources professional. A Tale of Two Recruitments. She liked tall drinks and even taller tales.