My details
- My own or my organization's website
- A movie I love
- Cool Runnings. It's a true story and it shows that it's not about what you train to do, it's about what you do with the training.
- My background
Left school at 18, worked in touring and in-house theatre, then trained as a croupier, worked as a dealer on a cruise ship, switched to being a slot technician, came back, temped for a while, then decided to study engineering. Applied to study an HND, left with an Hons degree, went to live in Canada for a couple of years, came back, worked up in the smoke for a while, got married, moved to Czech.
My Hub experience
- The leader I will be five years from now
I know the things about the work that I do that motivate me to get out of bed early and stay late. I am trying to develop the teams I work in, so that we start to move towards projects that meet my prime motivators, and develop myself to the point that I am seen as the person to lead the group or team or dept, however it turns out, when we do get there.
- Expertise I bring to The Hub
Working in teams where my first language is their second languiage
- Mentor, coach or buddy wanted
- Be a mentor, coach or buddy
My Guestbook
I'm an engineer, my fundamental question is 'How?'
My Leadership Log/Diary
On goal setting and habit forming
Just gonna let some stuff flow here.
I recently read a few things regarding leadership, mental health etc, all of which mentioned that being physically fit is a significant help. So, I started running. Or, to be more specific, I started to get in the habit of running. But, there is no set end point. There is no target (time or distance), that once I reach, I have become what I want to be and can then go and aim for something else. This is a continuous exercise, not in getting fit per se, but in getting into a habit.
Being able to get into a habit.
My groups
I've connected with
People I have a buddy, mentor or coach relationship with in The Hub
Who / What inspires
My Hub History of Activity
Environment, Behaviour and Personality
Hi all,
we were having a debate about this in our leadergroup, and, since both the other debatee's are also hub members, we agreed to post it up here, to see if there were any other additional opinions, or counter arguments. I expect that after a couple of replies, that they too will add their comments. Up to them if they choose to let everyone know that they were part of the initial three.
Team building games / exercises
Hiya,
I need a little help (again !)
We are going to run some sessions where we evaluate some candidates for our engineering development program. What I need is 2 or 3 small, group leadership, training exercises (explain them, or submit a link to a site, I don't mind). I expect groups of about 5 people per exercise, though this may vary. I am hoping to use this to do the following, and yes, I know these will be subjective evaluations, and all I am really looking for are the extremes, not an accurate and precise assesment.
Evaluate:
Mentoring book recommendations please
We will shortly need to start doing some mentoring of new engineers across some of our departments. Those that will be doing the mentoring, myself included, have little experience doing this.
I am interested to know if anyone has any recommendations for books on the subject. They need to be real world books, fairly short and easy to read. Scholarly tomes are, unfortunately, not what we need, bear in mind that a lot of the readers will have english as a second language. Allegorical books work well for this type of readership, but penguins may be going a bit too far.
BOOK CLUB: Leadership Theory and Practice
Lifted from the Preface to this book, ' written to bridge the gap between the often simplistic popular approaches to leadershipand the more abstract theoretical approaches'. This book does that well. It is also a good general primer for those who have read one or two other books (this was my situation) and are now interested in finding out more about the bigger picture of leadership.
