Ten working days left till my departure from Cadwyn Housing Association! (actually 9 as I’m about to hit the publish button on Monday evening). I’m now really trying to focus in on where best to invest my remaining time to leave things in the best possible place. Currently I’m in the thick of making sure the niche (and probably infrequently needed) information is somewhere accessible to the team.
I’m bouncing between two predominant feelings.. “Hey, all this working in the open stuff really paid dividends, I don’t have to write much up at all” and.. “Oh god, I haven’t written much up at all. I must be forgetting something really crucial!!”.
It generally feels a bit weird to be handing stuff off and knocking about in a mostly advisory capacity. I feel a bit like Marty McFly in Back To The Future slowly fading as the timeline deviates. (That sounds really dark and foreboding! It’s all good and largely by design. I don’t feel like I’m being erased from history reader!)
In other news, I purchased a new keyboard last week for the ‘home office’. Best £29 I’ve ever spent. Not only does it have pleasingly clicky mechanical keys, it’s got whizzy RGB LED lighting effects.
Lastly, I listened to a really great Adam Grant Worklife podcast last week about ‘When strengths become weakness’. I think what I found most interesting is that it observed that 1) much of education and the workplace is still dwelling on weakness as a route to excellence, which is largely utter tosh and can make people miserable by forcing them to be something they’re not. And 2) that strengths are not inherently ‘good’. They are instead morally agnostic. It is how we choose to apply our strengths that determines the positive or negative effect on the world around us.
For example, you might be a charismatic and persuasive speaker, but if you aren’t holding the space open for other people talk, is that good? Worth a listen and further consideration.
That’s it for this week. TTFN!!
I’ve been reading…
- Where system change meets agile practice; the multidisciplinary primordial soup.
https://medium.com/@curiouscatherinehowe/where-system-change-meets-agile-practice-the-multidisciplinary-primordial-soup-903b7ba1ccc1 - Post Normal — Work
https://medium.com/@acuity_design/post-normal-work-91a583b7b49c - Service for some, slavery for others.
http://gerrymcgovern.com/service-for-some-slavery-for-others/ - Giving back #loyaltothenetwork.
https://medium.com/notbinary/giving-back-loyaltothenetwork-b108d505fa2a - What we have learned about co-ops.
https://medium.com/the-satori-lab/what-we-have-learned-about-co-ops-b7d75e9c5240 - Own it!
https://medium.com/notbinary/own-it-9240ce0007e3 - Comparing service design and business analysis.
https://medium.com/leading-service-design/comparing-service-design-and-business-analysis-aed52d8ea8fb - Housing repairs common service design: Discovery.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1734RyV84L146weu1nMYfvLNjDunzlLb2/view - The good, the bad, and the struggle; a recap of CDS’ Distributed Week.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1734RyV84L146weu1nMYfvLNjDunzlLb2/view - How Agile helps non-technical teams get things done.
https://medium.com/sanjoseway/how-agile-helps-non-technical-teams-get-things-done-6cb13812345e - Organisational adulting: Overcoming apathy and disengagement in the workplace.
https://xblog.xplane.com/organizational-adulting-overcoming-apathy-and-disengagement-in-the-workplace - Cross-Silo Leadership.
https://hbr.org/2019/05/cross-silo-leadership - How cycling’s made me fitter and happier.
https://medium.com/doing-better-things/how-cyclings-made-me-fitter-and-happier-95221caab815