Posted in X factor, personal on Mar 30th, 2007 1 Comment »
Derek Haywood, our Business Manager, retired today.
I can’t begin to express how much I’m going to miss him. The retirement of a close colleague is a strange thing - one day a person is there - the next day they’re gone. I’m pleased for Derek but it will leave a huge hole in our working lives.
Derek [...]
Posted in X factor on Feb 19th, 2007 3 Comments »
Sunday afternoon telly showed “Tuesdays With Morrie”. Alan Blackie lent me the book a few months ago and it made a real impact (I’ll get it back to you Alan).
The book recounts the true story of the relationship between a man and his former university teacher in the last months of the older man’s life [...]
Posted in X factor on Feb 8th, 2007 6 Comments »
I was honoured to meet Melville Carson (87) who came into the office to video conference with two of his former fellow Prisoners of War from Stalag Luft 3. Melville was due to be number 151st on the Harry tunnel but it was discovered before he could escape. He lost 51 of his colleagues who were [...]
Posted in X factor on Jan 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
I received an e-mail on Friday from Liz Herd (one of my colleagues) who has recently been in Dublin. She came across the work of Anna Nielsen and thought I might like the combination of words and drawings.
She was right! I’ve spent a couple of hours this weekend going through the work - amazing!! Anna has [...]
Posted in Leadership, Management, X factor on Nov 19th, 2006 No Comments »
I had a really interesting chat with someone last week who asked me to imagine the optimum type of educational leader. In order to give the person some form I used “X” to represent the person.
What was fascinating was that this technique enabled me to describe some key leadership and management behaviours which I probably [...]