OK, it's time I stopped sitting on the fence. I'm getting splinters in my butt and I don't like that feeling...
Whilst enjoying the sunshine and joie de vivre of the South of France, I jotted some thoughts about my three and a half years working around access to justice and advice charities. So here it is. If you're of a sensitive nature, look away now.
- Let’s stop asking people who aren’t good at something to lead projects they don’t want to do
- Change takes time and effort - you don’t get over the chasm just by pretending it's not there and if you try and jump without a plan you might break your ankle in the process
- Technology itself isn’t complicated but it’s application to real world environments and the people within those makes it more challenging than the plan suggests
- Know what you want and prepare - learning by doing is fine but screwing up by failing to plan at all is not
;)
One final thought - be mindful of who you are training to do what. You wouldn’t teach a fish to ride a bicycle.
Would you?