Or “why you should be worried by 47%” 47% is the proportion of staff an average UK water and sewerage company will need to replace or significantly retrain 2020-2030 according to EK Skills Workforce Planning Model which is accurate to ±5%. And it is happening now. Mega Trends Mega trends are large-scale, long-term forces that […]
Steady Eddy and Edwina: The Hidden power behind your business
This post is based on an article I wrote for the 2022 Q4 edition of the Institute of Water magazine Who makes your business really perform, day in and day out, just simply making the right things happen at the right time in the right way? Your Rising Stars? Or perhaps your graduate trainees? Or […]
From Dropout to Director and Beyond
This post is based on an article I wrote for the 2022 Q3 edition of the Institute of Water magazine My story I was inspired to write this article by the quote, attributed by some to Jane Austen: “It’s never too late to be what you could have been”. This might seem strange given that […]
Water: How Should we value it?
A clue: It’s more than just counting the money This post is based on an article I wrote for the Q3 edition of the Institute of Water magazine The ideal There is increasing awareness that clean drinking water and good sanitation has a far greater value than the simple economic returns it offers to water […]
What Will My Successor be doing on Thursdays and Fridays?
A Lighthearted but potentially serious question This post is based on an editorial piece I wrote for the Q4 2019 Institute of Water Journal which was focused on leadership and management Would you like your managers to be looking for work to do, rather than struggling to meet objectives? And having time to develop their […]
Building a team of many talents
In the summer of 2017 I was offered a three month contract as Interim Water Quality Monitoring Manager with Southern Water to help implement a new Compliance and Resilience directorate. Writes Bob Windmill Eight months later (yeah, I know) I had led the creation of an entirely new team of six monitoring scientists and a […]
Key Future Skills for the water idustry
This Post This post is based on an editorial piece I wrote for the Q1 2016 Institute of Water Journal which was focused on current and future skills issues I think that the two most important future skills for the water industry are Measuring the Future and Non-Traditional Recruitment. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. It is […]
A trip down memory lane
The post below is about me racing motorcycles and some of my successes on my FZ750. Calling it one of “My Publications” may be stretching things just a bit, but I don’t care because: Doing it brought back happy memories of beating full 1100cc Superbikes on my little 750 It was chosen for publication by the […]
Skills: a perfect storm?
This Post This post is based on an editorial piece I wrote for the Q4 2015 Institute of Water Journal which was focused on current and future skills issues Weathering the storm? As storms go this is a quiet one, but it has the potential to be as troublesome as any typhoon or hurricane. At […]
SPOC: Students Planning Their Own Careers (Full Article)
This Post This post is based on a paper I presented at INTED2013 (7th International Technology, Education and Development Conference) Introduction In our ever more complex world, as illustrated by the video “Shift Happens“, the idea of careers being planned in some linear manner is increasingly untenable. However individuals still need a way of identifying the […]