Sunday 29 September 2024

Just found my Up-Goer Five and it’s still what I do!

help people to think about how they do their job and how their jobs fit together with other people's jobs as a whole. I help them to figure out what they do now and how they could be doing this better or different way.  I also get people to focus on the order in which they do things and to work out if they could be doing things in a better order.


To understand this I ask them hard questions to get them to think about what it is they really need to do. I also get them to think about the questions they need to be asking themselves to make them better at their jobs. Once I have asked people questions by themselves, I often get a whole group of people together and ask them questions as well.

Once I have understood all of this I write down my thoughts on how they can make things better in a set way. This means that other people can understand and follow my thoughts and ideas. I then work with groups of people to help them put my ideas into place.

The people I work with focus on either making people better, asking other people to make people better, or learning how to make people better.


(Created using the Up-goer Five text editor http://splasho.com/upgoer5/, which challenges you to use only the ten hundred most common words to explain an idea.)

Words I was unable to use: Health, education, consultant, company, organise (or organize), hiring, effective, commissioning, individual, common, provider, service, deliver, future, structured, action.

Friday 23 December 2016

also - meet Turq.


hello again...

... so, I was last here at the end of 2011. A lot has happened since then, and I find myself wanting to blog again.

A quick catch up:

I moved the US.
I got married.
I'm pregnant.
I'm happy.

I think that's it for now, but expect to see me here regularly again.


Saturday 19 November 2011

blughh

project is over - it went really well.
I'm now a week into decompression and I feel like crap.
I ache, I'm tired, the self loathing is at an all time high.

I have cooked lots of amazing food in the last week so eating healthily will be easy for the next 10 days and then I get to go away to the sunshine which will be lovely.  My exercise kicks off tomorrow with a pilates day which should be great and then I want to keep it going until I go away.

I know objectively that these are good things.  I'm just not feeling it right now.

Saturday 15 October 2011

also

I really need to set aside a regular time each week to go through internet dating emails and respond.  I think it's been about two weeks since I logged-on last!

ok - I have a plan...

... last week at work was crazy-mental (the start of the tender response process and seeing how reality responded to plan) culminating in a fuck-up in IT leading me to think that all of my work from the previous two weeks had gone (it looked for a moment [read - 2 hours] that a server-crash had restored to a back-up from September 27th and also over-ridden all of the back-ups in between). It was all ok in the end but, needless to say, I was pretty broken by the end of last night.

the solution for restoration of sanity was that I got up this morning, reworked the plan for the project, figured out exactly what I need to get done this weekend, and then spent the rest of the day in Westeros (I'm a third of the way through Book 3).

tomorrow I have a lot of work to get through, but I think it's manageable, and I hope that having chilled out today will make it easier. I've also got to remember that I've had flu in the last 2 weeks and am not completely better, and that I mustn't let my confidence go on this project (as client seems really happy and they're talking about bringing me back in January to run another project for them).

ahhh - just remembered that I forgot to pick up my dry-cleaning AGAIN today. It's been two weeks and if I don't go and get it, they'll throw it out! I think maybe that I need to pick it up on Monday morning (which means not going to the gym before work, so maybe not). Ok - will have a think as to how to solve...

but really - I DO have a plan. It will be ok. Honestly.

in other news - I really do need to arrange what to do for my birthday on Monday - I am excited as I get to be 33 and I haven't done that before!

Wednesday 12 October 2011

So I don't think the LJ thing is working out...

... I think I may come back here and hang for a while.