Becoming More Visible - Phil Walsh's Learning to Achieve
Channel: Phil Walsh
Date: 2017-01-20

http://learningtoachieve.co.uk/  Phil Walsh's Learning to Achieve 

Becoming more visible

My 1st VLOG - 20th Jan 2017

As a Learning Facilitator, Coach and Consultant, I am offering a business and personal Vlog to the world. Gulp!

Hi and welcome to my vlog. 

So I am sending you this video as this is my first attempt in Vlogging. I want to vlog regularly and I want your help in making it as successful as possible. Not just for me, but also successful for the people who experience my vlog and I know that you could help with that. So, what I want you to do is watch this and give me feedback; feedback about the platform, the equipment, the content, the style, anything and everything - I just want you to tell me.

So, in my first vlog I thought I'd talk about the concepts and the premise of my vlog. I think it's important to understand that I'm going to vlog about all of me, so my business life and my personal life, my successes and my failings, my joy and my despair. 

So, just for instance in the last week, I've been running some programmes in Bristol for a learning development company and we've been running those for a construction company - it's a fantastic course and we had some fantastic feedback - I had a couple of the delegates who wrote on their feedback forms that it was the best course they've been on and that was thrilling. It was thrilling also because the majority of the feedback was about the content of the course, not about the delivery of the course. I am always keen that people are talking about the content and how they can use the content when they feedback - that makes me really happy!

The bad things, I guess would be yesterday - I had a really clear day to get on with my to-do list and to.get.stuff.done and I didn't do as much as I wanted to do. I fell into that productivity trap that sometimes do and used to, fall into and it's annoying - I've got this real opportunity to make a move and things like getting this video done, should have happened yesterday, so I'm really keen that I share successes and failures and it's not just all about the light side. 

So I'm going to vlog about things like niche marketing and my role in that. I want to think about that, and how I react to that. I'm going to vlog about facilitating learning in large groups, about critical thinking, the ease of critical thinking, things that are important to me like volunteering, social businesses, parenting - clearly very important, relationships, coaching, and I'm going to vlog about feedback and the role of giving and receiving of feedback which is something that I've been thinking about a lot recently. 

The idea is that I am going to produce vlogs on YouTube, share them via LinkedIn and Facebook and really share my thoughts and my observations as they come whilst making sure that I build in the time to thank and respond to everyone that engages with those messages. 

My purpose is simply to become more visible and to share more of me with the universe. It is nerve wracking and I'm full of doubt, but that is why I'm doing this soft launch just to you because I know that you will set me straight and tell me what's what and I thank you for that. 

Thank you for watching - please respond by email, by phone, in the comments section or not at all - you just decide.

Thanks again.