{"id":1637,"date":"2020-04-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2020-04-02T13:48:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T12:48:27","slug":"time-for-an-mot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/time-for-an-mot\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for an MOT?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have you found yourself saying \u2018when things get back to normal\u2019 or \u2018when this is all over\u2019 I&#8217;m going to&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I know I certainly have.\u00a0 My own thoughts and decisions have ranged from going back to the gym (which I&#8217;ve put off since last October) to just taking some minor risks around spending some hard earned savings on my new house (I think the rainy day just arrived) to thinking about my future in my world of work.\u00a0 Will that look very different from what it is now?\u00a0 What do I want to focus on for the next few years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re having similar thoughts and some of them are about your future career path, or making sure you take some time out to invest in your development rather than being too busy, then don\u2019t delay &#8211; book yourself in for a development MOT.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/coronavirus-covid-19-mots-for-cars-vans-and-motorcycles-due-from-30-march-2020\">DVLA might have extended all our car MOT renewal dates<\/a> but have said we are still required to keep our motors roadworthy &#8211; the same applies to ourselves and our development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These Development MOTs are short, confidential 1:1 discussions to talk about you and your future career.\u00a0 Regular, 30 minutes slots are available to book now via our <a href=\"https:\/\/outlook.office365.com\/owa\/calendar\/OrganisationalandPeopleDevelopment@cccu.onmicrosoft.com\/bookings\/\">online booking form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lynne Gill, Organisational and People Development Manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you found yourself saying \u2018when things get back to normal\u2019 or \u2018when this is all over\u2019 I&#8217;m going to&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136217,"featured_media":1638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,145],"tags":[49,321],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-news","tag-development","tag-mot"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Juliet Flynn","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/602\/2020\/04\/mot.png","postExcerpt":"Have you found yourself saying \u2018when things get back to normal\u2019 or \u2018when this is all over\u2019 I&#8217;m going to&#8230;..","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}