At work:
- A bit of thinking (see under Development, below), and lots of delivery (see under Deliverables, below).
Deliverables this week:
- Strategic service review: ran an all-day workshop with strategic and leadership staff around a service which has been in pilot phase for 2 years, and which is about to move to a new team (due to internal organisational rejigging) and also move into business-as-usual, building on the pilot phase and establishing a new strategy for the near, mid and long term future. I used a 3 Horizons model again, which really works well for this sort of strategic planning. Lots of outputs which I’ve collated into a report which will inform the draft strategy, and some lovely feedback: “It was enjoyable and it was productive, what more can you want. It was fab.”
- Evaluation project: completed and sent the child-friendly summary report.
- Mentoring of Local Health Board leaders is in its last few weeks – last few sessions.
- Co-production training for researchers: delivered an online session about co-production in research contexts, it was a lovely session with some really great thoughtful questions. Colleagues spotted a nice post about it on LinkedIn! “I learnt a lot attending this training session today, led by Noreen Blanluet of Co-production Network For Wales. Really interesting format, and great to learn about how to integrate co-production methods in a research project. I would thoroughly recommend attending if it runs again in the future!!”
Development this week:
- Attended the Relationships Project reflection and discussion event about Relational Readiness, and actually something clicked for me about measuring relationships (or not as the case may be) – I wrote up some notes here.
- Wrote up my notes from the Deceleration Assembly last week.
At home:
- Last Welsh lesson before half term, got a break next week. I will use the time to go through the modules we’ve done so far, transfer some vocab to my notebooks, and make some index cards. Telling the time is HARD in Welsh! 😀
- Cat is still on twice daily steroids but we’ve finished the 6am antacids now, thank goodness. He’s got another blood test next week to check how he’s progressing. He’s got ups and downs, some better and some worse days.
- I saw somewhere recently about how spring cleaning is better done in the autumn, when you’re actually going to be spending more time indoors, and I find the change of season (and clocks!) definitely conducive to having a big tidy up and putting things away.
- I winterised the motorbike, oiled the chain, and put her away – sleep well till March now, little one.
- Cleaned the garage door, tidied up the garden pots and put them in their winter positions. Mended my big warm winter cardi and sorted the rest of the pile of mending while I was at it.
- Put away completed projects and tidied the books away. Downloaded and archived some old work folders, so everything is organised and tidy.
- Everyone missed last week-end’s swim, it was miserable weather and we were all extra tired. First swim after the clock change today! It was glorious and the sun was shining. Cold of course. But good.
