Day 2 – 3 January 2014 Boy was I tired. For the first time in ages it was the alarm that woke me. I’m not used to real work but I was back at Meadowfield this morning to help out in the stores once more. The schools come back on Monday and so we need … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 2
The road to understanding
The road to understanding is difficult and long but is paved with many interesting and beautiful things. There are things that are going to whet your appetite, things that are going to distract you, things that frustrate you, things that will lead you up some cul-de-sacs and things that will lead you to true enlightenment. … Continue reading The road to understanding
Personal development plan
I’ve had my personal development plan meeting this week. You may know it as an appraisal. Now I talk with my boss about performance and objectives all of the time but my PDP allows a once a year formal discussion about how well we are doing. It’s a two way street. As with all processes … Continue reading Personal development plan
Don’t decide day
Leaders and managers of the world, unite with me in celebrating Don’t Decide Day! It must have been about twenty five years ago when I was sitting in my office doing – well I forget what I was doing. It was a nice office though, a sort of S shape with my desk in one … Continue reading Don’t decide day
I need another word for what I do
I spend most of my time at work trying to get the best people into the jobs that they are best suited to, creating situations that allow them to be stretched and develop while trying to clear the right paths to make this happen. Most people would call this manipulation. But that is such a … Continue reading I need another word for what I do
Will you be saying yes or no to pornography?
Life is never that black or white and the way that a question is phrased will often determine the outcome. Nudge told us that. So when you are asked do you want to view pornography online yes or no, how are you going to answer? If the question is ‘Do you want to want children … Continue reading Will you be saying yes or no to pornography?
Communication is a what?
I’ve often heard the phrase that communication is a two way street. Well it isn’t, that’s a bad analogy. In a two way street the traffic goes one way up one side of the road and down in the opposite direction on the other. Up and down only. Unless there is an obstruction in the … Continue reading Communication is a what?
Funployability
Funployability had to be the word of the day. The whole management team had been brought together for a morning of development lead by Darran and Pete, the irrepressible lads from ON-Brand Partners. They had split the group into four and asked each of us to look at a set of questions to get us … Continue reading Funployability
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 