Can what you learn in your hobby help you at work? My experience says that it can, even if I did find out the hard way. In the beginning I started my career as a trainee laboratory technician with Anglian Water. At the time it seemed like a pretty dead end role, washing test tubes and […]
Doing well at work: Understanding money and business
Introduction My name is Bob Windmill and I am the Managing Director of Windmill Insight Solutions Ltd.My passion is helping people and organisations become better at what they want to do. My blog is a way of sharing with you the sorts of projects I am involved in. I also write about how you can […]
Doing well at work: Being a Go-To Person
Introduction My name is Bob Windmill and I am the Managing Director of Windmill Insight Solutions Ltd. My passion is helping people and organisations become better at what they want to do. My blog is a way of sharing with you the sorts of projects I am involved in. I also write how you can […]
Doing well at work: Intro
Introduction My name is Bob Windmill and I am the Managing Director of Windmill Insight Solutions Ltd.My passion is helping people and organisations become better at what they want to do. My blog is a way of sharing with you the sorts of projects I am involved in. I also write how you can help […]
Teaching in Finland – Part 5: Where next?
Background In my first post on this topic I wrote about how a chance conversation with the host of a study visit led to a really nice teaching project with Kainuu Vocational College (KAO) in Finland. The main topic of that post was the way that the project moved from idea to something more concrete. […]
Teaching In Finland – Part 4: How I should have done it
Background In my first post on this topic I wrote about how a chance conversation with the host of a study visit led to a really nice teaching project with Kainuu Vocational College (KAO) in Finland. The main topic of that post was the way that the project moved from idea to something more concrete. […]
Teaching in Finland – Part 3: How it went, Day-by-day
Background In my first post on this topic I wrote about how a chance conversation with the host of a study visit led to a really nice teaching project with Kainuu Vocational College (KAO) in Finland. The main topic of that post was the way that the project moved from idea to something more concrete. […]
Teaching in Finland – Part 2: How we went about it
Background In my first post on this topic I wrote about how a chance conversation with the host of a study visit led to a really nice teaching project with Kainuu Vocational College (KAO) in Finland. The main topic of this post is the way that the project moved from idea to something more concrete. This is post is an […]
Teaching in Finland – Part 1: How it started
Background This is the story of one of those wonderful projects, the sort that come about by chance but turn out out to really useful and great fun. It’s the sort of project that shows that no matter how much you plan there is still a lot to be said for keeping your eyes open […]
How I escaped a life of grind
Looking back Sitting here today with two successful careers behind me and another in progress it’s easy to forget that life wasn’t always so rosy. In this post I will be writing about the shock of moving from the nice comfortable world of education to the rather less forgiving world at work. School – the […]