From the monthly archives:
Breda wore a lovely pair of teal green shoes to work the other week. They were round toed with a heel not too high and a little strap and buckle to keep them on. We all admired them and asked where she’d got them from.
That lunchtime I went out and bought a pair, same colour, [...]
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Well, it wasn’t about winning, of course. It was about the taking part.
It was also about having to navigate across country in the dark, on an unfamiliar road with Ben, Clare, a rubbish map and handwritten directions from Maeve. That was the first challenge, or so we thought, but maybe we were just a bit [...]
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We’re like little children in the office today. The excitement is building, alliances are being created and faux enemies being made. What, you may ask, is all the fuss about?
Well, we’re all getting together for a day of team building on Friday at the brilliantly named Lusty Beg, and we can’t wait.
The wellies are being [...]
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L&D managers will have heard the interesting training news this week with the announcement, in the Queen’s speech, of the right to request time off for training to be given to British workers. Employees can use this right to develop their capacity and skills, not just for their current day job but also for their future career [...]
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If you’re a Councillor from Kent then we may have seen you at last Friday’s Kent Member Development Meeting ‘Opening the Toolbox to Community Engagement’ at Oakwood House, Maidstone.
Aine and I gave live demonstrations of the latest Modern Councillor courses at the Learning and Development exhibition where we met about 100 Members.
As an exhibitor it’s always interesting to note [...]
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Between the Steering Group meeting, the inaugural Modern Governor Steering Group meeting, the Public Sector Skills conference, some on-site account management visits, an Instructional Design workshop in central London and a sprinkling of other events and visits the Learning Pool team members have managed to see 32 individual council customers in the first 2 days [...]
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Christmas is coming, we are all shopping like mad and, due to the credit crunch, trying to do it as frugally as possible. My procurement method of choice is shopping on line. I love it, been doing it for years and each year I do more.
The ease of logging on to Amazon or Play.com and surfing through recommended [...]
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