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I hope it’s OK to post here. I’m the Founder of the Forces Wives Challenge (FWC) which is a social enterprise that unites women with partners in the armed forces through adventure and challenge.
Our next event is on Sat 27 Feb and it is open to EVERYONE. It is called the Forgotten ‘C’ in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. COVID has had a heartbreaking effect on cancer treatment with Macmillan estimating that it has resulted in over 50,000 missed diagnoses – this event is our small way of ensuring cancer does not become the Forgotten ‘C’ of the pandemic.
For more info and to sign up https://www.forceswiveschallenge.org/forgotten-c-challenge
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Thanks Fiona. I’m signed up, donated and taking part! My mum got cancer a few years ago and Macmillan were stand out brilliant in helping her at that time. So happy to support Heather Sharp
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Thanks so much for posting this! I’ve signed up and donated too – looking forward to my hour’s contribution on Saturday.
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It was great to see so many of you for today’s event. We’ll be sharing the recording of the event soon but in the meantime, here’s the original article that led to the event happening!
Thank you to Ben Legg Julia Poncar Lucy Warman and Luke Rodwell for making it such a great discussion!
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Jenny Collins posted in the group The Community
Duncan Dalzel-Job and the wider community 🙂
Just had the privilege of hearing this amazing lady talk.
Claire Haidar
TED talk
Basically, she posited:
We can’t go back to the office. Ever.
The bonds are broken. New patterns are better, and going backwards never works. We should plan to never return.
It will in fact be harder to return to the old world order, than it was to progress to more flexible home working, particularly now we have adapted.
CEOs always liked getting brainpower into the building, but was it ever successful?
The data says no. People aren’t productive in offices – they create communities to replicate the home they left behind and only tend to actively WORK 3-4hrs per day. When WFH like we are now, people work more adaptively around their personal lives, remaining connected to what needs to be done both in the home, and the office, over 15hrs/day. Productive business work tends to be between 6-8hrs. Now that the shif…
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I always love the phrase ”the data says..” She’s impressive, grown her biz quickly from 3 to 30+ staff and the pandemic has sure helped. No issue with that… but she has seed funding to grow further, her primary biz is a platfrom to enable digital/remote working… and so the cynic in me says ”she would say this wouldnt she”. There are so many aspects of the ”old” ways that were inefficient and the panmdemic has given us an opportunity to ref…
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I agree Malcolm Millar – my bet is on a more hybrid approach to offices/ communing going forward
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Jenny Collins Thank you for the summary and really interesting to hear the strength of argument. Whilst my business’s ideals are based on the growth of home working I think it’s good to have a bit of cynicism about the death of the office. Disclaimer: I have office clients too but their projects are about adapting existing offices for the ’future of work’ rather than building more city-centre offices. Developing a workplace strategy should definitely be on a case-by-case …
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It’s a really interesting perspective, however my anecdotal-only experience conflicts in a number of areas. Firstly, whilst many people started off saying WFH is the way to go and they couldn’t see themselves wanting to go back into the office at all, those views as Ben said have evolved into a hybrid being more preferable. “Going backwards never works”, ‘people aren’t productive in offices” are quite strong and definitive statements! I know many people who rely on the water coole…
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Just wanted to say thanks so much to Jane O'Sullivan for all the support the last few months but also to individuals! It was awesome to see Claire Moss and Jane O'Sullivan at the weekend. And of course Tim Walters, Ph.D. in December 🙂 hope you’re all keeping well and if you’re looking to get out your head any time soon – the next (monthly, free) play workshop is 20th Feb 🙂 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/games-master-flash-and-game-plan-present-brunchtime-games-tickets-128333544085
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Just signed up! Can’t wait to get professional help to ”bring out the silly in me”, although I’m a bit worried I might then require help to put it back in. Looking forward to it.
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Haha thanks Jesus Iniesta , we won’t bring anything out you won’t want to keep out proudly! Can’t wait to meet your silly 🙂
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It’s so easy to take what we do for granted and when we look to others for help it can be even harder to acknowledge what they can do for us. Change doesn’t happen overnight. Often, Ben, Fiona, or Laura will ask:
‘any WINS?’
To many, this may translate as:
‘have you landed that killer contract yet?’
And perhaps that is your ‘WHY’. Certainly, it’s a goal, but sometimes it’s best to take a step back and reflect on the small wins. Every incremental step you take on your journey, no matter how small, is a win.
Ridiculous and preposterous as it may seem, a small win for me was to cut my hair, take a photo of myself and post myself on LinkedIn. The shame of it all, a man nearing his midlife point, starting at zero.
But that’s the beauty of it; that’s the beauty of being part of the portfolio-collective community. It’s a level playing field. Sure, there may be high flying CEO’s and seasoned professionals who have been there and earnt the t-shirt,…
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I love this steven reader, thanks for sharing your very honest insight with the community. I am sure that feeling of ”wins of different sizes”, will resonate with many of our members. Every Thursday the TPC team share their win of the week, this could well be mine
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steven reader – Stacking up the small wins is a great outlook and the chance to start at zero is a strong point of view. However, sometimes I prefer to think I am the sum of all my failures, or at least the ones I have learnt from. The projects or jobs that didn’t quite work but have ingrained a lesson-learnt. Build on these in a new direction and combined with the TPC support team – the world is your oyster!
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I love this so much Steven!! Going into the new year it’s such a refreshing reminder of how great this community is. Cant wait to catch up with everyone in 2021
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Spot on pal
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This is an incredible looking event Heather Sharp. This sounds like it could be right up your street Nicola Twiston Davies and Laura Thomas!