General thoughts on today
Another day of reflection on the passing of the Queen (QueensDeath ). Boris Johnson’s speech in the Commons stool out both for the deft personal stories he told and the way he insisted on calling her Elizabeth the Great - I wonder if that will stick.
Work
Work carries to tick along. Today I finally launched the Analytics Practice for SSCL DefenceAnalyticsPractice It was good to get it launched and it will be even better to get the first tranche of workshops out of the way. Similar to when we delivered this into Government it was very much half hour of me talking away with very little engagement. But I’m hopeful things will pick up.
The bigger challenge for next week is continuing to get to grips with the various strands of the Resourcing data. My current thinking is that there are three base datasets needed:-
- Resource - who is in the organisation, which area, what role and how much they cost (including current vacancies)
- Activity - what the resources are booking their time to
- Demand - the horizon in terms of what roles are needed on what projects.
There is a potential gap in that we’re not tracking the BAU demand - but I’m hoping this can easily be extrapolated from the weekly activity data.
Exercise
A day of walking as I had to pick up Isaac. So a walked down to St Mary’s to drop him off and then back later to pick him up.
Prayer
Reading
James 1:19
Understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Let everyone be quick to hear [be a careful, thoughtful listener], slow to speak [a speaker of carefully chosen words and], slow to anger [patient, reflective, forgiving];
Thoughts
This is one of those verses that is just universally true and so forgotten by many people. We need more active listening in life, people eager to hear others, their perspective, their thoughts…and less voicing our opinions until we have listened and digested what has been said…and finally listening without that emotional engagement that leads to anger - don’t let someone’s careless phrasing spark a reaction, spark anger. Wise words indeed. #ListenMoreSpeakLess
Prayers
More reflections and prayers for the Queen’s family and the new King.
Computer
Getting more into 7DtD but
TV
Mostly TV has been following coverage of the Queen’s death - it seems most other activities (sport, theatre, the proms) have all been cancelled.
Food
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