Preparing for a Trade Show
At the World Travel Market / November 2011 I have to admit its 20 years since I was on a stand at the World Travel Market – but apart from the knees and the back killing me after 4 days, 8 hrs a day, standing up – its not that different. This is the largest [...]
Why Join A Board ?
Written in September / Posted Nov 11 This weekend I’ve been on a Board retreat working with 12 long-standing board members of one established organisation and then went off to assess whether I wanted to accept an invitation to join a fledgling board of another new theatre company. So I was spending 6 hours thinking [...]
Open Space Technology Virgin – no more
Not sure what google search will make of this title – but hey !! I’ve just run my first Open Space session as part of a conference and now its over I can a) admit that it was my first and b) admit that I had no idea whether it would work. I have been [...]
Arts Council Assessor
Sorry my blogging has been non-existent this year. I don’t seem to have had any time at the home desk…but I will get better (sorry Tom). I’ve just started being an Arts Council Assessor and I thought I’d take a moment to share the experience. I’m one of two people who are charged with going [...]
What’s the point of surgery…
As Tom, my colleague and CGO Associate creates a new version of the website, I get to write some blogs. Tom suggested the first subject should be about the CGO Surgery process. And I’m delighted to do that. We started these rather unexpected events a couple of years ago because we both like meeting emerging, [...]