Rebecca Jackson | Digital Workplace | Employee Experience | Change Management | Visual Communication

March 28, 2020

Use your skills to help – Working from home #KnowSomethingShowSomething

We are all in the same crisis, but we are not all in the same situation. Everyone has knowledge and now is the time to put it to positive use. Big or small your skills may help someone who is struggling right now. If you know something, show something.

March 27, 2020

The shift from strategic to tactical learning – Working from home

The mass shift to working from home has been a big change for workers, but also a change for practitioners. Technology, communications, digital workplace and change management practitioners have had to pivot and re-focus.

March 26, 2020

Collaboration contract – mini case-study

Using technology to collaborate is much more nuanced than turning on the tools and letting people “go for it”. It also can’t be too prescriptive. That is why I love the collaboration contract concept. Here is my first experiment with it.

March 25, 2020

Leveraging culture and technology in times of crisis

With the COVID-19 situation changing rapidly our CEO Craig Scroggie and the leadership team made the decision to have all non-essential members of the NEXTDC team work from home. This was a decisive move to commit to social distancing and stopping the viral spread.

March 22, 2020

Podcast addict – What I'm listening to March 2020

Here three podcasts that I have on rotation at the moment. Very different topics, all high production and entertainment value.

March 5, 2020

Armageddon Calendar 2020

2020 is shaping up to be a great year. Sketch reflecting on the big news items of the year and the way it is portrayed in the media.

March 2, 2020

A community learning event: Microsoft 365 Saturday Melbourne

As a digital workplace practitioner I get great value out of community led events which share not only information about products, but how to leverage them to create real value. That is why I am excited to be part of the team bringing Microsoft 365 Saturday to Melbourne in May.

February 26, 2020

4 tools to help you focus and make the most of it

Getting time to focus on work is a common challenge. If you are in a role where meetings are the norm, how do you make time to plan and get work done? In Microsoft 365 there are a few tricks and tools you can use to create and make the most of focus time.

February 25, 2020

Get visual and start sketchnoting

At some point in our lives many of us put down our crayons, pencils or markers and stop drawing. It is a truly sad thing. The benefits of drawing range from simple enjoyment to information retention. And if you think you can’t draw, you are wrong.