by Simon Wakeman | Mar 31, 2021 | Monthnotes
Last month I wrote about a sense of change and March feels like it has continued in the same vein. Sunrise over Bishopsbourne, March 2021 The continuing success of the Covid-19 vaccination programme in the UK, the return of face-to-face education and more recent...
by Simon Wakeman | Feb 28, 2021 | Monthnotes
February might have been a short month, but it feels like a month where change has been a strong theme in many ways, both at work and outside work. In Kent the month began with a proper icy blast of sub-zero temperatures and then gave us a week of snow to break up the...
by Simon Wakeman | Jan 31, 2021 | Monthnotes
It’s a wet and windy Sunday evening in Kent as I look back over the past month at work and at home. The first working day of the month, just four weeks ago, seems like a distant memory. The pace of work after the Christmas break pretty much hit full speed again...
by Simon Wakeman | Dec 31, 2020 | Monthnotes
I’ve started and re-started this post several times over the past few days. Taking some time off work since 23rd December has given me a bit of a break to look back on a hectic three weeks of the month, as well as taking stock of the year as a whole. Early...
by Simon Wakeman | Nov 30, 2020 | Monthnotes
The cyclical nature of lockdown life seems to give days and weeks a strange timelessness. Hours, days, weeks and months feel like they’re whizzing by in a blur of Zoom calls, home grocery shopping and the daily rollercoaster of Covid-19 news. This month has been...
by Simon Wakeman | Oct 31, 2020 | Monthnotes
Since I first began recruiting and managing teams, back in 2004, I’ve talked about “the dip” with every new person joining my teams. Stealing just a touch from Run-DMC, it goes a little something like this: “When you start a new job, it’s...
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