AITD National Conference 2012

AITD 2012 was a fab­u­lous expe­ri­ence for the Be Learn­ing team. Despite the relent­less rain through­out the two days at Syd­ney Tech­nol­ogy Park, a record num­ber of del­e­gates attended demon­strat­ing that Aus­tralian organisation’s strongly sup­port the inno­v­a­tive devel­op­ments and a grow­ing dig­i­tal pres­ence in learn­ing. Be Learn­ing was an inte­gral part of AITD 2012 in […]

Be Learning experiments with music and songs for learning

Did you know that one of the old­est human arte­facts ever found is a Sloven­ian bone flute from an extinct Euro­pean bear car­bon dated at an impres­sive fifty thou­sand years? Music, like edu­ca­tion has been around since the begin­ning of time and one of the rea­sons that Be Learn­ing is inter­ested in explor­ing music and […]

ASTD 2012 - One week to go....

Miriam Tas­sone – Direc­tor of Be Learn­ing writes per­son­ally about her expe­ri­ence lead­ing up to the ASTD Con­fer­ence 2012   It is one week to go and I am excited to be mak­ing the final prepa­ra­tions for ASTD 2012 in Den­ver, Col­orado. I have been  look­ing through the pro­gram and it is scat­tered with peo­ple that I have […]

Going Social at Trade Show Events

Be Learning’s Top 10 tips for using Social Media dur­ing Tradeshows and Con­fer­ences This week Be Learn­ing will be show­cas­ing at the 2012 AITD National Con­fer­ence. We are pas­sion­ate about using social media to build con­nec­tions with our clients and asso­ciates. We believe in the power of conversations! Our res­i­dent social media whiz kid Deepti Sachdeva will be […]

A Good Call by Intermedia WorldMedia Festival… Caltex and Be Learning win Silver!

The film ‘A Good Call’  is the result of a recent part­ner­ship between Cal­tex and Be Learn­ing.  It is a lightly comedic, punchy and mem­o­rable story of Bill a junior tech­ni­cian and his men­tor Jim.  A rou­tine job at the Refin­ery quickly turns into a crit­i­cal emer­gency and the film unfolds to demon­strate cor­rect rou­tines […]

It’s Game On!

Have you ever been curi­ous about how to cre­ate a work­place cul­ture that can har­ness the increas­ing obses­sion we as humans have with online games? Did you know that online gamers recently deci­phered the struc­ture of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that has thwarted sci­en­tists for a decade? It is time to sit up, […]

Inner Life, Outer Results - March Edition

A Brett Wood Blog explor­ing the rela­tion­ship between inner work, per­for­mance and well being   “Power with­out love is reck­less and abu­sive, and love with­out power is sen­ti­men­tal and ane­mic. Power at its best is love imple­ment­ing the demands of jus­tice, and jus­tice at its best is power cor­rect­ing every­thing that stands against love.” — Mar­tin […]

Work/Life Balancing Act Part 2

Addic­tion… I won­der more and more these days whether there exists some kind of men­tal or even phys­i­cal addic­tion to work.  I was train­ing a work­shop recently in which one of the par­tic­i­pants was con­stantly check­ing his Black­berry, even though I had asked every­one at the begin­ning of the day to turn off their phones […]

Work/Life Balancing Act Part 1

Not too long ago I was in a car with my father dri­ving along Sus­sex Street in Syd­ney CBD at 9:30pm. We were on our way back from the the­atre after see­ing a play.  My father com­mented on a long line of taxis out­side one tall city build­ing whose offices were all lit up. The the­atre […]

Fire, Snowball, Mask, Movie: How Leaders Spark and Sustain Change

The fol­low­ing arti­cle by Peter Fuda and Pro­fes­sor Richard Bad­ham is the result of a com­pre­hen­sive study about the com­mon expe­ri­ences of highly effec­tive lead­ers uncov­er­ing a num­ber of metaphors which describe how lead­ers spark and sus­tain organ­i­sa­tional change. The arti­cle high­lights just some of the amaz­ing work by Richard Bad­ham in the area of […]

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