Time to Grow March 22, 2009
Posted by Bill in : Management Training, Outdoor Management Development , trackback
I was reading Ollie Bray’s blog this afternoon. Fantastic news for Ollie with his new secondment which as he points out will allow time to have some accelerated learning and prepare him for his goal of headship Ollie I’m sure will be missed around East Lothian.
Speaking of secondment I also had to clear my desk pack up as from last week I have moved on from the Outdoor Education Service in East Lothian for a short Secondment (until 2010) within the region with the Corporate Health Safety and Development Team (possibly soon to be known as Organisational Learning?).
As an Employee Development Advisor I will be completing continuing work working with the team to promote and work on the Transformational Leadership Programme within East Lothian, working on an employee engagement project, The East Lothian Way and also the next Challenge for Change manager’s conference in October/November.
This is an exciting opportunity to further develop the use of Experiential and Outdoor Learning within the field of Management Development and its use in the East Lothian learning arena. Something I have always been passionate about. I appreciate that using experiential learning is nothing new, it’s used widely by various agencies within EL, however these projects are exiting and perhaps ambitious because what will make them different is the focus is on behavioural qualities as opposed to technical process and task based skills. The Transformational Leadership Project has also connections with the wider development of East Lothian by linking Leadership behaviour and links it with the EL core priorities and the Single Outcome Agreement. This link will be important as time and time again in Public Sector studies there is evidence that Leadership is not always driving innovation and performance, it often happens despite it. It’s not that I see it as that in East Lothian in fact my contact with leaders managers and staff within EL has been very positive – there is clearly a lot of talent in this area. That is why the project (like the First Steps to Leadership Educational based programme) is mainly staffed and developed within the authority, as it will allow managers from different work environments to come together and enhance their own leadership learning.
Exciting times indeed. In this excellent opportunity for personal growth (east Lothian …a space to grow ), but I will miss the involvement with young people in EL working in the outdoor environment.
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Great news about your secondment Bill and thanks for posting more information about it. Looking forward to catching up with you soon. OB
Excellent! Looking forward to seeing/ hearing how it goes.
Good luck with the secondment - and great blog by the way!
Thanks Richard, hope things are going well at Aberdeen ICT.
Best wishes, Bill - I hope you have time to keep blogging!