End of the holiday - tropical storm results in 2 inches of rain, making the pool overflow......
Springsteen in great form last night - three hours, just him and the band, and 22,437 of us - fabulous! Extraordinary moment last night as, mid concert, Katherine did the check in on line for her and Alastair's British Airways flight tonight - using her i-phone, she checked in, selected her seats and got the boarding pass sent to her phone - all the while watching and singing with Bruce! Mad world!
Been looking at the attributes of a creative entrepreneur - www.cida.org/wylln - commissioned by West Yorks Lifelong Learning Network and researched for CIDA by independent researcher Moira Sutton - now up on our website and welcoming (indeed, requiring!) input from all creative entrepreneurs, practitioners and artists - this is a Call to Action!! For those of you who know my work on this topic, it is interesting to see how closely this intensely researched list of attributes matches my own list drawn from the experience of 30 years in the sector.......!!
The idea of this project is to help academics in the WYLLN group check the content of their current courses against the industry identified attributes and behaviours needed for success in this sector so it's an important piece of work and your input would be invaluable – also, of course, the thing that really interests us in CIDA is that it is a step towards helping to set quality, industry relevant standards for in house training (i.e. work based learning) – part of a wider agenda we are looking at, including establishing a regional CI group, working with a group of interested CI employers, and talking to the NSA, ACEY and the RDA about developing together an effective agenda for skills development for the sector -
We've had some interesting - and surprising – responses to the WYLLN work on line: CIDA's Facebook pages certainly have a wide mix of people looking at it, to judge by this - some challenging and thoughtful responses and extremely courteously expressed - one in particular from a practitioner/academic from the States but working out of a West Midlands university has led to an exchange of emails and probably a meeting to see where and if we can find common interests. I'm extremely interested and will no doubt write more about this as and when it develops –
Of course, West Midlands is particularly exciting for CIDA just now as we have just been selected as a provider for their Innovation Advisory Service - briefing meeting next week but it's one that feels full of promise!
And we are about to have a CIDA Innovation Day - we are inviting friends of the company to come and act as a 'Watering Hole' group for us as we devise some new programmes for the future – and of course it's an opportunity for us to introduce people to some of the Innovation tools that we use, so hopefully it will be challenging, creative and fun! Even people who can't make this one have all asked to be invited to another session in the future so maybe this is something we will develop –
Sun has just come out again so am off to enjoy it – Katherine and Alastair off tonight and we travel back tomorrow – it's been lovely!
