The Mental Health Foundation is supporting this year’s World Mental Health day with their Tea and Talk campaign. It’s an opportunity to get a group of colleagues/friends/family/community together to share […]
Creative Team Building
Our team recently piloted a short creative session facilitated by Tina Atchison-Thomas from the Arts and Culture team. Tina is an Outreach and Programme Co-ordinator and had contacted me a […]
Learning from Lockdown Teams
We hosted our first ever Virtual Staff Orientation this Wednesday and, to my mind, it was a very positive experience: no technical hitches, all the various presenters were there when […]
3 Top Tips for Winning at Work
Disclaimer: I don’t always get these things right. I am not the perfect colleague, and there’s probably lots more than 3 top tips I could have shared (feel free to […]
Leadership: Now and Next
Colleagues reading this who have some kind of leadership function in the University may be feeling a weight of responsibility beyond their previous expectations. Risk assessments, virtual team discussions, complete […]
And now, the end is near…
Ok, I’m being dramatic again and bursting into song unnecessarily – I can see you, I know you are too ;-). But today’s blog marks the end of our daily […]
Don’t break the chain
It’s been a really busy few weeks and I’m not ashamed to admit that my productivity levels are dipping and my motivation is slipping. Instead of accepting this (I’m stubborn, […]
New Job…in my own Home
It’s probably fair to say 2020 hasn’t gone according to plan for most people. But if you had told any of us we would be starting a new job in […]
My favourite TED-Ed videos
I like to binge-watch TV shows. Some nights I find I’ve lost hours online, just watching episode after episode: Netflix, Prime, iPlayer (have you watched Staged yet? If not, you […]