Category: Non-profit projects and organisation
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Future of Adult & Community Education
That Adult and Community Education is in crisis, is no surprise to anybody. So, how do we go about making it sustainable, providing it with the platform and importance it requires? I recently attended the Reimagining and Reclaiming Adult and Further Education Congress held at the Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences in Birmingham…
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Navigating the Self-Employment Roller Coaster
It has been way too long… I am embarrassed at how my social media posting has dropped, at the length of time it has taken for me to post another blog… however, that is because I fell into the curse of the self employed! What curse? That of taking on too much work through anxiety…
· Adult Education, change, Community of practice, critical reflection, imposter syndrome, Leadership, learning and development, Mental Health, Motivation, Non-profit projects and organisation, Personal Development, Professional Development, self awareness, self employment, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Wellbeing -
Creativity
To nurture our creativity is to provide our minds and ourselves with space, non judgement, growth and potential. Creativity is vital to many of us, to deny it is to turn off a tap of ideas, of stilling our hands from making, blocking our ears, eyes and mouth. All thinking is creative. Logical is not…
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Fashion as art as connection…
The art of connecting to ourselves can be enhanced by the clothes that we wear. If we are wearing clothes that we don’t feel truly reflect ourselves, it shows. If we are wearing clothes that we love, that we feel comfortable in – our confidence shines through. These days fashion has for me become more…
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March Newsletter
Winter suddenly feels behind us as March brings unexpected warmth! It feels a time of rejuvenation, of growth amid and in spite of the economic challenges continuing. My year has suddenly ramped up this month and in doing so my social media has fallen by the wayside. So moving into April I will be looking…
· Adult Education, Book review, change, Community of practice, critical reflection, DISC, employee engagement, engaging with employees, imposter syndrome, Leadership, learning and development, mentoring, motivating employees, Motivation, Non-profit projects and organisation, Organisational Development, Personal Development, Professional Development, self employment, work life balance -
Book Review – Quiet
By Susan Cain I only learned I might be an Introvert last year… at 54 I think that it would have been handy to have learnt a lot earlier! However, with it only recently become vogue to identify at extrovert or introvert, I guess it is better late than never. Reading Susan Cain’s ‘Quiet’ has…
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Supporting new managers to delegate
When any change is created in business, there are ripple effects that make their way from the top down through your business and the business of promoting new managers can be a key cause of this as the organisational structure within a team or department has changed. Everyone needs to learn the new flow of…
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Birmingham Playcare Network
Craft with a conscience… Birmingham Playcare Network (BPCN) is a Birmingham based charity located in the Hollymoor Centre, Edgbaston. With skilled staff and enthusiastic volunteers, BPCN provide a supportive environment for communities, families and children who are experiencing isolation, financial hardship, and lack of childcare/ space for children to play safely. To provide this valuable…
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February Newsletter
We are over half way through the first quarter of the year and I feel the need to ask… where has it gone! Economic Growth and Change One of the first departments to go during any sign of economic downturn or hardship is L&D. This is akin to cutting off your hand to fit into…
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Identifying latent skills
I tend to mention in my posts, fairly frequently, the importance of undertaking a skills audit of your staff and I would like to explain why. But first, what is a skills audit? A skills audit is an audit of the existing skills that your staff possess. This can be designed around for their current…
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South West Coastal Path – Stage 1
For Christmas, my partner gave me Mark Rainsley’s Explore the South West Coast Path – A Guide for Walkers, Backpackers and Trail Runners. Don’t tell him… but it was my favourite present! I am obsessed with this book and last weekend we finally made our way to Exmoor to kick it off. We live in…
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Developing Value for Employees
I commented and shared a post on LinkedIn a couple of weeks ago on how to make employees feel valued. My viewpoint was that from the learning and development side (of course!) and it’s continued to mull over in my mind. To make an employee feel valued takes very little. Provide them with a reason,…
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Dash Jeans!
Dash clothing is not a brand I have come across before. A quick google and I’m no wiser apart from wondering if I have bought an item that was from a company owned by the Kardashians…? What I do love about these jeans and why I bought them at ‘full’ charity price of £4.75 is…
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‘Meh’ to ‘Yeh’
So, last week I had a very unsatisfactory after work run. I class an unsatisfactory run one in which I feel as bad at the end as I did at the start! When there is no impressive time within which I ran to make it feel worth it. When I don’t notice the beautiful colours…
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Knitted Knockers
It was at the Bakewell Wool Gathering Festival that I first discovered Knitted Knockers. Having walked to raise funds for Breast Cancer Research in the Lingen Davies Shropshire Titty Trail the weekend before, it sparked my immediate interest and the purchase of a little knitted knocker keyring! This wonderful charity provides free of charge knitted…
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Review – ‘Make it Human’ by Sarah McLellan
Sarah McLellan’s book ‘Make it Human’ is a go to guide for all things work and people! It’s subtitle is ‘A vision for happier, healthier, more human workplaces’; and for someone whose vision it is to bring the importance of employee engagement, positive work cultures, employee empowerment and growth to the fore, this is like…
· Book review, change, Community of practice, critical reflection, employee engagement, engaging with employees, Leadership, learning and development, motivating employees, Motivation, Non-profit projects and organisation, Onboarding, Organisational Development, Professional Development, Sustainability, work life balance -
Review – ‘Surrounded by Idiots’ by Thomas Erikson
I’m on a bit of a development roll at the moment as I prepare for personal and professional challenges ahead. I’ve just finished reading Thomas Erikson’s ‘Surrounded by Idiots’ which explains the four types of human behaviour the DISC profile tool explores. The four types, you may know, are Red-Dominant, Blue-Analytical, Yellow-Inspiring, and Green- Stable.…
· Book review, change, Community of practice, critical reflection, DISC, employee engagement, engaging with employees, imposter syndrome, Leadership, learning and development, mentoring, motivating employees, Motivation, Non-profit projects and organisation, Onboarding, Organisational Development, Personal Development, Professional Development, self awareness -
Making a change…
I’ve recently been thinking about my work future. I’ve been thinking of my career and where I want it to go. I’ve been wondering if it is the right fit for me, if it is fulfilling, and what, besides the money, is important to me. Going freelance or being a sole trader has always had…
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The continual rise and fall in importance of learning and development
Why is it, whenever there needs to be a tightening of the budget, learning and development is one of the first departments to be impacted… and how can companies maintain a learning and development programme in such circumstances? A learning and developing culture can be cultivated with very little expense. And when employees are encouraged…
· change, Community of practice, critical reflection, employee engagement, engaging with employees, Leadership, learning and development, mentoring, motivating employees, Motivation, Non-profit projects and organisation, Organisational Development, Personal Development, Professional Development, Sustainability -
Transparency in Change
Think of the last change your business went through. Was it successful? Was it truly successful? If so, brilliant! Please put up a blog post about it and send it to me. And… you no longer need to continue reading this post. You cracked it! :-) For those of you whose change management wasn’t successful……
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