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‘This is Nottingham’ reports belatedly on Accomplice

Nicky Spencer — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:42:41 +0000

Stumbled across ‘This is Nottingham’ article (October 2011) today in my web wanderings … a little while since it was drafted (we moved from BioCity in February 2011) but it still tells something of our story.

Cancer Research almost sweeps the board at the Accomplice Christmas Charity Draw

Nicky Spencer — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:01:45 +0000

Congratulations to this year’s charity winners (and their nominee’s) who are:

First Prize of £150 – Cancer Research

The nominee remains anonymous but I can let on that she has bravely undergone significant treatment for cancer this year. (could we have a better winner?)

Second Prize Project of £75 – Cancer Research

Nominated by Lisa Wellbourne – Acting Performance Manager at Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Third prize of £25 - Project African Wilderness

Nominated by Pauline Davis - Strategic Director at Hull City Council

This charity protects and restores the Mwabvi Wildlife Reserve in Southern Malawi. It has recently lost a key benefactor and funder, a good friend of the nominee, so funds are even more than crucial to ‘keep the dream alive’.

Accomplice will mail winning charities in the New Year with their gifts, sending the nominee a copy of the receipt for verification.

So Cancer Research, the most popular charity in 2010 pretty much sweeps the board clean in 2011 … and how lovely to have a wildlife charity in the top three this year?

Do send in your ideas on how we might improve or flex our Christmas draw.

Committed to Career Management?

Nicky Spencer — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:22:47 +0000

Well, I just couldn’t resist spending a few minutes watching and then commenting on HR Talk’s ‘Career management‘ video with Angela Baraon, can you?

If you are interested in working alongside or advising on how our career programmes, materials and expertise might be cascaded to line managers in your organisation and beyond, please contact me with your initial thoughts.

Accomplice’s Season’s Greetings – and call for your charity nomination

Nicky Spencer — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:38:37 +0000

Season’s Greetings to You and Yours!

This electronic greeting (in place of a card) has released £250, gift-aided, for charities. So, we’re inviting you to nominate your favourite charity before 20th December on the form below to enter your charity for the Christmas Draw:

· £150 if it’s first ‘out of the electronic hat’

· £75 if second and

· £25 if it turns out to be the most popular charity voted for!

Check our ‘news‘ section for the names of the winning charities (and, if they permit, their nominators) on Christmas Eve.

I look forward to hearing about your favourite charity – and meanwhile wish you and yours a very Happy Christmas and successful 2012.

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IHM: Managing Staff Expectations

Nicky Spencer — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:07:57 +0000

For those who went to the East Midlands’ IHM Primary Care conference on Wednesday, 9th November (and anyone beaming in on this post), here’s a copy of Nicky Spencer’s morning presentation on ‘Managing Staff Expectations‘ including the model she put forward.

The East Midlands IHM are simply ‘ace’ at putting on great events for healthcare manager’s development, reflecting on practice and catching up with the latest news. Find out more about them from their Regional Administrator or from the national website.

More about expectations – contact Nicky 07977765550 direct.

A Team 360 – Your Views Invited

Nicky Spencer — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:52:09 +0000

The Accomplice Team 360 graphs your team’s maturity against twelve characteristics of top performing teams: Views of team members and other key parties are collated to feedback on everything from your remit, performance and team culture to your resource-base.

Use the results to assess your team’s development priorities and construct a plan to increase its overall performance.

Do send us your views on the likely value of this new tool in your workplace – by completing our 5 minute questionnaire.

Lion’s Lair – Voluntary Sector Evaluation

Nicky Spencer — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:02:51 +0000

Working with EM Business in the Community and Nottingham CVS as an East Midlands’ Business Champion, we facilitated the Lion’s Lair event in Nottingham in late September. Thirty voluntary sector workers presented their ‘pitches’ to a panel from the private sector: learning more about how they might launch new, reciprocal networks.

The evaluation of the event looks good so we meet again in November to review the day and consider how we might extend the events and learning further.

Managing staff expectations during the ‘Squeeze’

Nicky Spencer — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:58:10 +0000

I’m delighted to be addressing this year’s IHM East Midlands Primary Care Conference – as follow up to Professor Mike Pringle on ‘Managing Expectations’ during recession and financial squeeze. Mike gets to cover ‘Managing GP Expectations’ whilst I cover the ‘Staff’ angle.

Wednesday 9th November, Derbyshire Hotel Junction 28

Intending to use the Leadership Qualities Framework?

Nicky Spencer — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:13:14 +0000

Are you intending to use the new LQF? Or would a Team 360 be more appealing to this and other individual 360′s?

Subject to feedback, I will sign up for training as an LQF Facilitator – to extend options for you, smooth links to our development programmes and to give me some ideas about using your staff to deliver the feedback on the Team 360.

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Improving work performance leads to better life-work balance

Nicky Spencer — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:54:03 +0000

As another career programme participant starts her role in a new sector this week, one more returned his evaluation of the career advancement programme today.

He had focused on improving his performance at work which, inadvertently, improved his life-work balance as he explained in the covering email:

“I did just want to say thanks for the amazing difference you have made to my life. I am still busy but busy and productive! And if it doesn’t get done – it didn’t need doing. I am so much more relaxed now and am achieving more at work and also with my children (and I really was missing them growing up; I can’t thank you enough for putting me back in touch with them).

“The strategy at work of not replying with an instant ‘yes’ to requests but pausing and reflecting on whether it is business critical to the business or to my development has worked a treat; I am much more effective at saying “no” because I feel comfortable that I am saying the right thing and can often suggest an alternative way of getting the task done”.

(edited to preserve anonymity)