BiWeeknotes 29 Jan
I didn’t do weeknotes last week it was UK GovCamp and I was helping organise. But because it was ukgc21 I feel the need to capture somethings before I delve any further into the week.
I forgot to mention in my last weeknotes that I put my hand up to organise a wellbeing day for the programme. last week all of the organisers came together and had a chat and more people volunteered their time. There are quite a few things form GovCamp that I think will be helpful — so I’ll be looking back at the session notes.
Last week I managed to take the first stab and writing down what I’ve been mulling over on people and outcomes and the pressing need assess other/additional things. Interestingly a conversation I was notetaking in at GovCamp related back to this — though the subject was different the conversation came to the same sort of place, though slightly different — I need to look at those notes too.
Last week the first two min Show and Tells seemed to go well, and thankfully the back end admin seems to be light with the use of the MS Teams wiki, where people can register to do one. I’m popping the programme recordings in their as well and some notes and links to blogs explaining Show and Tells in a bit more detail. Well you know what I’m going to say — but there was a session that crossed over with this at GovCamp about online tools, it ‘s an oblique cross over admittedly but none the less a cross over.
And lastly on last week had a chat with Anna about the chat with the senior team on the Civil Service People Survey which was going to be my focus this week. On Friday we found out were not on the agenda for today — I’m not disappointed. I may write a paper, maybe. There is also one other stat I want to pull from the reports.
So GovCamp was lovely — different, but still lovely. It was also deeply interesting — my role at the back was less on the day, this is the beauty of an online event. This meant I could also attend sessions which was nice. Some of which if not all of which will effect how I go about things, both consciously and unconsciously. GovCamp continues to be a big dose of inspiration and a mirror to my soul.
And in this week
I watched back the All Hands — it’s wonderful that it’s recorded. It was with Jo and Ian from Summerdown fascinating and one to remember for the chocolate but also how as the Programme we can make this easier, with a bit less friction.
I read this https://leaddev.com/personal-growth/how-2020-has-shaped-you-engineering-leader (it was one of the many jumping of links from GovCamp). I also read https://medium.com/@SDX/wellbeing-what-do-we-choose-a7abfbb38bf8 Lovely write up. There were other things I should find a better way to curate that — some tabs were opened though and never read.
I watched Patricia Hill Collins Keynote at 2015 Social Theory Forum youtu.be/pqToqQCZtvg in following up threads from @katie_attwood & @LockhartL’s session at #ukgc21. Other than the obvious, that I’m going to watch every video I can find and have added one or two of Patricia’s books to my list. It makes me think in a very meta way about the information that we seek out. Aand perhaps how I need to take a more deliberate approach.
I could have done that today, but I got access to the Civil Service People Survey reporting tool. And ooohhh people data — and I got rather absorbed in that. It’s fascinating how the same things and patterns that effect us as a society also show up. And quite excitingly I have found the most marginalised people in the programme (that completed the survey) though rightly so there is no actual way of identifying them as individuals which is a good thing. The tool also provides some of the comments, so I have pulled that out and will go through and mark up themes – we do get some pre-caned reports but one of them is not very helpful.
Great chats this week as well. And very lovely chat with Gemma Drake I wonder what will come to pass for us both in the coming year. I attended the Liberating Structures UK virtual meet-up on Monday which was great and I was reminded of https://virtual-liberating-structures.gdes.app/structures which was helpful — though I forgot to mention it at this chat about the MetOffice Climate Data Hack.
On the teaching things on the national curriculum front (I defiantly don't think it’s home schooling). I was supper calm for 99% of the time. In that 1% I think we learned more about Volcanology.
And as I finish the week the thing still going around my head is Amanda Gorman poem ‘The Hill we Climb’
Memory Jar
Fun in the snow with Eloise and Szu. I’m still getting told off for throwing a snowball at mummy :)
