At short notice (1730 on Tuesday) I got called in to run a two day CMI accredited middle management leadership programme for a sick colleague on Thursday and Friday. Agreed to do it and spent Tuesday evening and Wednesday working my little socks off to get ready - no prep time payment though! Loads to pick up (around 200 pages) and the programme could've been much better designed (far too much material, too many questionnaires, nothing for activists, etc).
Beautiful venue in the Surrey Hills but nervous as anything, took the view that as long as I was one page ahead then I was OK. Lots of the stuff was familiar on Day 1 and it went OK - lovely delegates. Day two was good, as I felt more confident, even though I knew the afternoon session would cause me problems because I simply couldn't get my head around what was wanted. Decided - using my judgement of the delegates and in the spirit of adult learning - to level with them and we worked through the Oshry total system power model really well together. Got a thank you from the group and really pleasing feedback to compensate for being totally wiped out by the effort. Happy days!
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