A sophisticated Charity Reserves Policy is linked directly to the Charity Strategic Plan. To elaborate, if funders understand your strategic plan well, they shouldn’t have a problem with your Reserves policy having no upper financial limit. Astute funders also expect to partner for a considerable period of time, with a charity that will be resilientContinue Reading Charity Strategic Plans and Reserves Policies
Let’s start with a forecasting assumption – that for a variety of reasons, the AI age will increase the level of business uncertainty for private sector, public sector and charity sector organisations alike. Two big drivers of this uncertainty are likely to be: Wait. What is an interference pattern? Imagine filling a plastic bucket ofContinue Reading Business Flexibility in the AI age
Workforce resilience arguably includes three aspects; protection, durability and healing. This article examines the final one, healing in more detail. Health workers are experts in helping people heal after illness or accident. They may even have multiple healing options at their disposal. They adapt the treatments as needed. In the A&E/ER environment, medics handle multipleContinue Reading Workplace Resilience – Healing Rates
How much staff specialisation is best? People can become specialists in functions or project teams for a variety of reasons – it can be accidental or deliberate. A generalist may be seconded to do a ‘deep dive’ into a problem, for a prolonged period. They eventually emerge as a specialist – someone with current expertContinue Reading Staff Specialisation
It’s been awhile since I last posted. Sorry about that- I put mainly it down to COVID! But speaking of COVID, I wanted to shout out to: the adapters, the researchers, the treaters, the carers and the social distancers. Little kids who struggle to get what the virus is. Teens trying to keep budding romancesContinue Reading Personal Flexibility shout out
‘The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything.’ Robin Williams ‘I think educational systems have to be more nimble, have to be more adapted to today’s realities where students can go in different directions and professionalize even faster.Continue Reading Upskilling and Personal Flexibility