Tag: Education
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What is tikanga? Don’t cut harakeke when it’s raining
Learn what tikanga means in education through harakeke, tapu, noa, respect, context, and culturally grounded teaching practice.
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How do you think like an entrepreneur when you work in education?
Excerpt from new eBook out shortly Education is a tough business to work in. And that holds true if you are a tutor, a trainer, or any kind of specialist educator. Or a business owner…. Or all of the above like me. I’m pretty excited about what I do, but some days I can’t understand…
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I work in education… Why do I have to use tools from Service Design, UX and Agile?
Thank you, I understand. Welcome to the Brave New World. Your job and mine now require new kinds of tools and approaches. These tools and approaches aren’t part of the regular toolbox of tools most of us are familiar with in academic work. I’m talking about education but the same could equally apply to other…
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Agile Fundamentals: Graeme’s DIY non-MBA, MBA continues…
After a brief interruption of work (required to pay bills), I’m super excited to sign up today for the next component of my non-MBA, MBA. This is my commitment to my own personal and professional development in 2018. So far, I’ve dipped into Service Design, Project Management, Shoe School, and an online course called Designing…
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Project Management For Idiots: Part 2 – The Project Management Triangle
Prior to my recent crash course introduction to project management at the University of Auckland, I had no idea what the project management triangle was. It seems kinda basic now. To be honest, I feel like an idiot for not knowing this despite having worked on a number of projects where this language is used all…
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Project management for Idiots: Part 1 – Some Basics
Here are five thoughts about project management from my recent course at the Business School at Auckland University. All knowledge work is project work. Tidying my room is not a project. Other people are necessary. There is a budget. There is a framework. This is part of my non-MBA, MBA. It’s the second in my…
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The Future of Work is Project Work
The future of work, at least for me, is project work. At least it seems that way at the moment. So… welcome to the new work order. But project management is really one of my blindspots. Working in education, I have a background in training, not project management, or any kind of management really. I’m…
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How to Build a Do-It-Yourself non-MBA, MBA
Who’s got time to do an MBA. Not me… that’s for sure. Don’t get me wrong. There are plenty of great people out there with great skills. Some of these people even have MBAs. I can see the need to reskill and upskill. Especially in this weird economy. However, I haven’t got time for another…
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Critical Thinking in the Age of Disruption: Executive Education at the University of Auckland
One of my goals this year has been to try and put together a kind of DIY MBA for myself. Not really a proper MBA, mind you… who’s got time for that? I like my marriage. What I mean is more of a collection of training and inputs from sources outside of what I would…
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Niho Taniwha: A Framework For Educational Resilience And Capability
An exploratory Niho Taniwha framework for thinking about educational resilience, sector capability, professional standards, practical tools, and support systems.