11.30.05
Flowers for the teacher?
When someone unexpectedly gives you a gift, it makes all the hard work worthwhile and that is what happened today. She said the bunch of peach coloured roses were because I am always doing things for others and to be appreciated in that way is pretty good. Today was the third day of the in-house leadership course we have designed for her team; well I say we and actually I have to admit I have designed and so far delivered it myself. Our theme for the day was problems, how to solve them, conflict and how to manage it and negotiation skills. It is a real treat to be facilitating a team to develop their skills in this way, and to be part of the work they are doing to redesign their service. So often people are scared of change, and all too often we leave people who we expect to be the change agents to just get on with it, take the flack and in effect manage.
Because I was at our trust headquarters which is in the middle of a large shopping area, I caught the extent of the Christmas shopping thing which is going on at the moment. It feels as if the shops are busier, earlier than they were last year; I may be wrong but that is how it feels. What I don’t like is the increase in traffic that seems to have brought to such areas but the fact is that the car is pretty much king. It has been pretty cold here over the last week, that is cold and dry and in a way that adds to the winter pre-Christmas feeling which perhaps you wouldn’t have if it were 10 degrees warmer.
