Stolen from Ellie’s blog: http://ellielovell.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/im-a-leader/
I am a supervisor.
The four aspects that make up this personality type are:
Summary of Supervisors
Bring order to their home and work life
Like to act on clear, achievable goals
Think of themselves as stable, practical and sociable
May be irritated when people don’t follow procedures
More about Supervisors
Supervisors like to make plans, organise people and [...]
I love The Poppletonian, Laurie Taylor’s mock university corporate news colum in the Times Higher Education (yes, we’ve lost the Supplement bit). I also love his cast of character including the desperate Jamie Targett, Director of Corporate Affairs, and the hippy-dippy useless Jennifer Doubleday, Head of Personal Development.
I was thrilled when the VC welcomed the [...]
Thinking about writing about How very dare you????
This is really just a place holder. It’s to remind me to carry on thinking about Liam’s question.
Should you throw your hands up in horror and stalk out of the building crying “I can’t help you - you’re all doomed!”?
The answer to this, as Liam quite rightly points [...]
Note: the Accountant referred to is not Himself!
The difference is in the understanding of the word Clarity.
1.
clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity.
2.
the state or quality of being clear or transparent to the eye; pellucidity: the clarity of pure water.
Clarity to a communicator means simplicity and ease of understanding. [...]
Writing about He Knew He Was Right
I am making my first venture into Trollope having been inspired by A Round-Heeled Woman.
And it reminded me of how intransigent people can be in their relationships with other people - and why.
A brief plot synopsis can be seen on Wikipedia - but what it doesn’t cover is the clever [...]
Adapted from Well, Everything has to Start Somewhere on our work blog.
And more than that, to quote Jane Magé (a former boss):
We are where we are, let’s see where we can go from here.
A quote which I find useful for a variety of occasions…
So, we’ve got this Facebook presence - what are we doing with [...]
Is pangasius the new snoek? Well, being Friday, it has made a breadcrumbed appearance on the OU canteen menu.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m all for fighting the depletition of the North Sea. But I suspect this owes more to Brakes’s than it does to its oriental origins.
I’ve just been having a cup of tea with a colleague who, it strikes me, is the perfect factotum: efficient, organised, quiet, amazingly discreet, tactful, diplomatic and a wonderful problem solver.
And clearly these people are vital in the world of internal comms, these are the people who make organisations work.
A while ago she mentioned in [...]
Writing about: http://nationalrail.co.uk/service_bulletins/2fbb279e0a04000200df9a4c7e1c3e28.html
As a non-driver, today I am effectively stranded at home for the second day this week. Yesterday I worked from home and spent the day ridden with guilt at my self-perceived lack of productivity. Clearly going to have to work on that…
Today I have taken ther easier option and am taking [...]
Follow up to http://caseyleaver.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/intranet-distraction-oubay/
You can almost picture the festive scene….
Enter small child home from school with mud artfully splashed up back of trousers and trailing satchell behind them.
Small child: Mu-um, oh yeah, we was s’posed to get costumes for the play…
Anyone got a child’s monkey outfit for ages 3 - 5 years I can borrow [...]
