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On my way back from Shetland I bought a copy of the local newspaper. I do this whenever I travel - it usually provides some real insights into the issues for the community. I was particularly interested in a court report.A 16 year old  had been given 2 weeks to come back to court by […]

I am just back from a great weekend in Shetland where I was working with a group of teachers - from both Shetland and Orkney - teaching coaching skills. This was my first trip to Shetland and I got a bit of a taste of what island life can be like.There are of course significant […]

I attended a really interesting seminar at Edinburgh University Management School on the subject of talent management. It is a big issue for organisations and this is the second event on that theme I have gone to in the past couple of months. The reason I went to another one on the same topic was because […]

I met with the group of students I am working with at Napier University here in Edinburgh yesterday. I support them as they produce reflective learning records and plans for further learning. Then today I read ” The Steep Unlearning Curve” http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/the-steep-unlearning-curve/ by Will Richardson.
I understand that this is written from the point of view of […]

I was preparing for a training weekend on coaching skills with a colleague this morning and we were working on the section on listening skills - thinking about some exercises we might use. I suggested that we try ”dropping the coin” - which we used when I was learning to coach.This is a very simple, fun exercise […]

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