As we enter a new year and a new decade, I’ve started to reflect and think about the opportunities and challenges ahead and more importantly who will be collaborators on that journey.
This year promises and is pretty much certain to be “very” interesting one, my employer will be making cuts and that will mean people will lose their jobs – I am not immune from that process – so it inevitably makes you think about what might happen and how one would deal or adapt to those situations should they arise.
This time last year the team I work in at the council had to reduce by 2 FTE’s which was not a nice thing and that experience will be much more common over the coming months, not just in my council but across the whole sector. A lot of good people will be leaving the sector and I hope and wish that they continue to be collaborators with the public sector as it will need all the help it can get to get through the next 3-4 years.
The biggest thing last years process did for me was to proactively look at alternative employment opportunities, whether full or part time and luckily last July I was offered a part time position with Cosmic (a ICT Social Enterprise) and that has made such a huge difference to my personal motivation and personal development – the cultural differences are huge and more importantly refreshing.
Whilst this year will be challenging and in some cases pretty horrid, it will also be one of the most interesting and I’m really looking forward to working with so many amazing people who are passionate about making a difference, not just locally but as far as their influence can reach.
I hope to meet more twitter folk face to face as you are all even more interesting in person and it is great to share more than 140 characters with people.
I’d like to highlight a few people who I know will play a huge part in my life or will influence me one way or the other during the next 12-18 months.
- MartinHowitt
- CosmicJulie
- CosmicKate
- CosmicSarah
- DaveBriggs
- MMaryMckenna
- DominicCampbell
- StephenDale
- HadleyBeeman
- PSFNick
Many more of you will also play a huge part and I look forward to working and collaborating with you all during 2011.
Happy New Year to you all. 🙂
A journey through life - Carl's Notepad 