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[RichardCranium]

We were asked to fill in a form of memberships, qualifications, etc. so training could be worked out.

I asked about contractors - they said "everyone, then we know what skills we have in-house in total".

A PowerPoint went out including a slide with a summary of the results.

I couldn't read it so I downloaded it and emailed myself at home yesterday.

I've just gone to have a look at it. Go to the slide, click on the tiny bar chart and ...

... you can open it in Excel and ...

... there's a bunch of tabs: "analysis", "training needs", "summary data", "graphs" and ...

... "raw data".

Everybody's answers in a table.

Oops.

I wonder how many laws would be broken if I were to publish everyone's answers on the intranet?

I think I'll just delete this and forget I ever saw it.

[RichardCranium]

In a meeting last week I managed to say:

"By undertaking this prioritisation exercise we've been forced to wake up and smell the coffee, line our ducks up in a row, then run them up the flagpole to see which ones get saluted, with a view to efficiency-centric optimisation moving forward. Then we'll just need to cascade the helicopter view out to the business, engage our stakeholders and then we'll be galloping on up to a brighter future."

I spent all lunchtime thinking that up and rehearsing it.

To my utter dismay,the reaction was sage-like nodding of heads.

Frightening.

Feel free to try it out for yourselves.

[RichardCranium]

I found a Churchill photo.

[Churchill]

I found a Churchill photo.

Yeah baby!

[TheBigYinJames]

Morning all

Been off since Thursday, (Fridays off anyway, and took a sickie yesterday) so anything good happened?

Apparently my new permie is supposed to be a babe, so I await her arrival to see if the chaps were having me on or not.

[voodooflux]

"By undertaking this prioritisation exercise we've been forced to wake up and smell the coffee, line our ducks up in a row, then run them up the flagpole to see which ones get saluted, with a view to efficiency-centric optimisation moving forward. Then we'll just need to cascade the helicopter view out to the business, engage our stakeholders and then we'll be galloping on up to a brighter future."

That is legendary. Can I make a request for the inclusion of "Blue Sky Thinking" in your next one please.

[TheBigYinJames]

That is legendary. Can I make a request for "Blue Sky Thinking" in your next one please.

Only if you can leverage your synergy and get into bed with them.

[voodooflux]

Only if you can leverage your synergy and get into bed with them.

I'd need a workshop (subject to bandwidth) so that I could hit the ground running, not spin my wheels and ensure that I was adding value.

[FiveTimes]

Morning all

[voodooflux]

From the beeb news site yesterday:

50 office-speak phrases you love to hate