Tag Archives: Time

Time

Posted on June 1, 2022 by julianstodd

It’s a common feature of my conversations within a whole range of Organisations that people are busy: in fact, it’s consistently the #1 thing that people say that they need more of in order to learn, or to effect change. … Continue reading →

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Finding Your Campfire – Session One – Packing Your Backpack

Posted on March 18, 2020 by julianstodd

Next week i start a series of 3 linked webinars for newly remote teams. I will repeat these for as long as demand persists, moving each week between different timezones. The three sessions explore three aspects of remote working. Session … Continue reading →

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Iceland: Endlessly Flowing Through Forms

Posted on April 18, 2017 by julianstodd

The sunset casts a brilliant, low, light across the landscape, smearing silent shadows from my boots across the beach. In my hand, a hundred years, a thousand years, a hundred decades of precipitation, frozen in the form of a diamond, … Continue reading →

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Words About Learning: Pace

Posted on April 21, 2016 by julianstodd

Woke up to a long list of jobs, settled at the table in my AirBnB, then stopped, stepped outside, and ordered a coffee by the Amstel. In the sun. With my book. It is, after all, always possible to be … Continue reading →

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End Of The Tour: #WorkingOutLoud

Posted on February 2, 2016 by julianstodd

Time is remarkably elastic: remember those schoolroom days of double physics lessons, where the drone of the teacher was lulled to insensibility by the warmth of the sun through the dusty window and dreams of fields outside through the endless … Continue reading →

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Those Days

Posted on November 18, 2015 by julianstodd

It’s one of those days when i’m too tired to write, but too stubborn not to. A day when i let circumstance dictate activity, and, hence, find myself writing at the end of the day instead of the start. On … Continue reading →

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Taking Time

Posted on July 31, 2015 by julianstodd

It’s rarely gifted, time. If you want some for yourself, you usually have to claim it. ‘Give me time‘ is usually a plea, a desperate cry. I’m sat at the airport departure lounge, drinking coffee, whilst next to me three … Continue reading →

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Engagement and Silence

Posted on July 6, 2015 by julianstodd

Often in Social Learning we are aiming to generate engagement within our communities, but it’s easy to get caught up in the ride and think we are successful when people start to speak. Engagement isn’t just about hearing from a … Continue reading →

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Carpe Diem: the Elusive Nature of Time

Posted on December 18, 2014 by julianstodd

It’s stolen, wasted, invested or gifted, but, one way or another, it keeps ticking by. People often ask me where i find the time to write: it’s simple, i find it by not spending it elsewhere. And i try to … Continue reading →

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Can we keep social spaces social in a networked world?

Posted on April 10, 2014 by julianstodd

Some moves in France this week to legislate that employees turn off their smartphones and work email at 6pm. It’s a move intended to give protection from the creeping erosion of the divide between social and formal spaces: the urge … Continue reading →

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