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Tuesday - 'Hello from Sunny Southend'

Posted At : January 14, 2009 3:06 PM | Posted By : Alistair Calvert

It only takes five minutes to get to the office today so I can afford to snooze the alarm clock a few times.  I get a decent breakfast and take a taxi from the hotel to the office.

I spend the first 20 to 30 minutes of each day sorting out emails from the day before.  This routine ensures that I follow up on any promises and helps organise the dozens of emails I receive each day.

I spend most of the day working independently; extrapolating information from the various requirements documents and feeding them into my matrix.  Although I’m not directly looking for misalignments yet, it is important that I identify if the information is available in the first place.  I work until about 18.30 before taking a taxi back to the hotel.

After dinner I do a few hours ‘stream work’ in the hotel.  Stream work is internal CDC work and my responsibilities are in the Learning and Development (L&D) area.  Currently, I’m organising a series of ‘MySkills’ sessions for the CDC.  These are informal learning sessions that will provide CDCers with valuable skills based on three main themes: key consulting skills, capability units, and sectors.

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