small actions X lots of people = big change

I was with a group of friends in Devon the other day, where I heard about a website described to me as ‘a global movement for random acts of kindness’. With a description like that I just had to go and look.

www.wearewhatwedo.org is fascinating. A lovely resource for practical ways of making a difference. Have fun!

Improvement through review

I’ve been looking at new ways of improving my diction recently in light of the work done while gaining my Masters in NLP at the end of last year. To that end I’ve just bought a nifty little voice recorder, and have been using it this last four days in my role as trainer on the RYA Keelboat Coaches Course, where we were looking at how to coach rather than what to coach.

It has proved a very good feedback tool, and has enabled me to start to making improvements to my speech, so I’m very pleased. We had the RYA’s Keelboat Manager with us observing, which proved very useful as I was able to obtain feedback from him too which opened a window into a potential improvement in session planning which will prove of great benefit in future.

The course is not run on a frequent basis, so we always request the filling out of feedback forms, and run a de-brief for ourselves to generate improvements for next year. We are reassured this time that last year’s changes have been for the better, and hope that next year’s will be even better.

I used to be afraid of feedback. Now I welcome it