MONDAY 3rd February 2020 – THE 143rd INFORMAL DRINK IN OXFORD

An informal networking group, held every month (usually on the first Monday) at the Victoria Arms in Old Marston. The focus is on informality and building friendships with peers for the longer-term support of each other’s activities. There are no… Continue reading

MONDAY 6th JANUARY 2020 – THE 142nd INFORMAL DRINK IN OXFORD

An informal networking group, held every month (usually on the first Monday) at the Victoria Arms in Old Marston. The focus is on informality and building friendships with peers for the longer-term support of each other’s activities. There are no… Continue reading

New course: Introduction to Reflective Practice and Journaling (Oxford, Jan 2020)

Does your profession expect you to use reflective practice (RP) to maintain the ability to practice? Increasingly professional bodies are seeing that attending workshops and conferences have limited long-term impact without the habit of RP. This is particularly true of… Continue reading

“Keeping staff in the dark about pay feeds perception of unfairness, new research from the CIPD finds…”

How extraordinary… I would NEVER have guessed that… “Keeping staff in the dark about pay feeds perception of unfairness, new research from the CIPD finds…”   http://view.comms.cipdmail.com/?qs=0918937c42381e69d90baa3f67958a7bd5e11e4fe2aaee3cd8e401898947b254647c099a985728366eb4bfd0172a1e7e3b728005f32c133a0ca1fbcb05e2f3f4cb555e902c771c21776fd4675a10d035  

In the pursuit of productivity…

Many business school and professional development programmes are based on the same politico-economic model… one that assumes that economic growth is always for the good… that we should all seek for our organisations to become ever more productive… that individuals… Continue reading

MONDAY 2nd DECEMBER 2019 – THE 141st INFORMAL DRINK IN OXFORD

An informal networking group, held every month (usually on the first Monday) at the Victoria Arms in Old Marston. The focus is on informality and building friendships with peers for the longer term support of each other’s activities. There are… Continue reading

MONDAY 4th NOVEMBER 2019 – THE 140TH INFORMAL DRINK IN OXFORD

An informal networking group, held every month (usually on the first Monday) at the Victoria Arms in Old Marston. The focus is on informality and building friendships with peers for the longer term support of each other’s activities. There are… Continue reading

MONDAY 7th OCTOBER 2019 – THE 139TH INFORMAL DRINK IN OXFORD

An informal networking group, held every month (usually on the first Monday) at the Victoria Arms in Old Marston. The focus is on informality and building friendships with peers for the longer term support of each other’s activities. There are… Continue reading

MONDAY 16th SEPTEMBER 2019 – THE 138TH INFORMAL DRINK IN OXFORD ** NB DATE CHANGE

** NB Due to an unavoidable clash of appointments I had to postpone by two weeks!  I am sorry.  So we will be getting together on the 16th September instead! ** An informal networking group, held every month (usually on… Continue reading

Collaboration

A Facebook post by Debbie Bradley has raised some important points about the hypocrisy of modern education.  In her (or rather her daughter’s case) this was about the gender bias of uniform rules, and how a failure to conform to… Continue reading