Tag Archives: management
Customers can become allies
Share Once a week I try to tidy up my Twitter account and spend a few minutes looking at new followers. I’ve stopped following every organisation and person that follows me, but if there’s something there that sparks my interest … Continue reading
Learning with iTunes U
Share It would be nice to think that after getting a Masters degree in Marketing Management I’d be done with studying. The truth is though, that while the Masters has turned out to be just the right qualification for managing … Continue reading
Quaker Clearness Committee
Share I was fascinated to read Marko’s post about a Quaker Clearness Committee. I’d not heard of one of these before, but in a jumbled existence where there are too many good, demanding, urgent ideas, the idea of taking some … Continue reading
We’ve never done it that way before
Share My job has an interesting element to it, the ability to predict the future. Now before you get excited and start e-mailing for predictions for this year’s Derby winner (Kentucky Derby, Melbourne Cup, Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, or … Continue reading
Plan ahead and expect the unexpected
Share Very often we do an admirable job of dealing with normal. When things carry on, the same today as it was yesterday, we’re happy and can cope. Occasionally, though, circumstances combine and a situation occurs that isn’t routine. We … Continue reading
Why is, ‘You can do it’, so hard to say?
Share It was late last night when Tany and I almost fell into the trap of watching a TV programme about teenagers who appeared to have swapped their lives in the UK for a place in a school in South … Continue reading
Volunteered Personal Information (VPI) – A charity’s blessing or curse?
Share Alan Mitchell has noted a change in information gathering for companies. Data is no longer something we have to go out looking for, quite often our customers are more than happy to provide the information for us, he calls … Continue reading
UK Church Administrators Network (UCAN)
Share A friend has passed me details of the UK Church Administrators Network (UCAN), to share. It’s simply a group for people who are working in church administration to join and network, with the possibility of some organised training in … Continue reading