I think I have now got to grips with a blog \u2013 or at least the basics of a blog. Unless you tell me differently? I have also received some great feedback about the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is even better is that two people have said that the site doesn\u2019t do quite what they would like it to. One person said they really liked it and wanted to leave some comments both on it and about it, but couldn\u2019t, and another person said that they wanted to ask for a bit of help \/ advice but thought that the contact section felt a bit too formal. To me, the common denominator in those comments was that it needed to be more interactive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having had my thinking hat on, and having spent many hours tinkering (and I mean \u2018many\u2019, due to my lack of computer skills!), I have hatched a cunning plan \u2026 so cunning \u2013 Blackadder might say \u2013 you could put a tail on it and call it a fox! A plan that will \u2013 I think \u2013 go a good way to addressing that feedback. In fact, I\u2019m really excited about what I have come up with!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The excitement is mainly due my \u2018solution\u2019 also enabling me to work on something else I have been thinking about for some time. Lots of the websites that I frequent or have looked at have forums for their members \u2013 CIPD, TainingZone, CMI, Glasstap, etc. These are great, however, you also have to pay to access them and \/ or they are very specialist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many of the first line managers or aspiring managers who I coach or train do not have access to any such forums. From the discussions we\u2019ve had, they would find such a facility of great use. I know from delivering learning events that often the most beneficial, valuable and thought provoking aspects are when we look at case studies to which there are no obvious right or wrong answers. Because that\u2019s what happens in reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I don\u2019t have the capability or resources to set up anything on the scale of those previously mentioned sites. But I would like to offer a facility to those who have attended courses (and those who come across the facility and find it of use) whereby I can continue to offer them support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
People also tell me that they would sometimes like the chance to make contact away from a workplace computer, and it isn\u2019t lost on me just how many people use Facebook \u2013 and how versatile it has become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, how can I deal with all that? Well, I have created a \u2018Breathe Personal and Organisational Development Facebook Page\u2019<\/a>. This will enable people to leave comments on the website and to ask questions in a more informal way. It will also give others the opportunity to contribute to posts that people have left. People will be able to pick up ideas from reading questions and comments that others raise. Almost a virtual action learning set. And, of course, it\u2019s all free!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hope people will use it to pose a question, get a bit of advice or perhaps a resource they have mislaid. I\u2019ll not have the answers to all the points raised, but in such cases there\u2019s a good chance I\u2019ll know someone who will. It will be interesting to see how well it works or what level of take up there is. I\u2019ve had great fun learning as I have put it all in place, so if it\u2019s of use to one person, it will have been worth the effort!<\/p>\n\n\n\n And, dear reader, you can help me. As you may be aware, it is possible to create a \u2018Username\u2019 for a \u2018Facebook Page\u2019, however, a page has to have at least 25 \u2018fans\u2019 for this to happen. So if you would be happy to be a \u2018fan\u2019, it would be great if you could support this little venture by going the Breathe Facebook Page<\/a> (via this link) and pressing the \u2018like\u2019 button \u2013 assuming you do like the idea \u2013 and that will enable me to give it a proper name!<\/p>\n\n\n\n And if you can see any other improvements I could make, please do let me know \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n But \u2013 unfortunately \u2013 I haven\u2019t solved the whole problem as I have now found out that one of the people who sent me the feedback isn\u2019t on Facebook! \u2013 So let\u2019s get back to that drawing board \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think I have now got to grips with a blog \u2013 or at least the basics of a blog. Unless you tell me differently? I have also received some great feedback about the website. What is even better is that two people have said that the site doesn\u2019t do quite what they would like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,30],"tags":[271,127,263,281,202,238,260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/breathe-pod.org.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/breathe-pod.org.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/breathe-pod.org.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breathe-pod.org.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breathe-pod.org.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/breathe-pod.org.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/breathe-pod.org.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/breathe-pod.org.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breathe-pod.org.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breathe-pod.org.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}