[In Conversation] with Heather Taylor Portmann 👩‍💻

Hello again! 

Can you believe we are already a month into 2018! Time is flying 🚀 Late last year I booked an event with General Assembly which is now only a few weeks away. On Monday, Feb, 26 I will be hosting my first fireside chat with Will Hudson, co-founder of It’s Nice That and Lecture In Progress, at the General Assembly London campus. 

It will be a live broadcast so be sure to tune in if you’re not in town 🎙

In other news, I am thrilled with the first podcast of 2018. I sat down with my friend and fellow ‘people person’ Heather Taylor Portmann. We covered a lot of ground; engagement survey’s best practices, compassion for leaders, and (my fave) dogmatic change management.

This podcast has already inspired me to write a whole bunch of follow up articles so hope you get something out of it too.

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📕 A really good interview with strategist Camilla Grey where she talks about dealing with anxiety. 

📕 A guide to resilience in the workplace.

📕 Heather attended Facilitation Shindig taster session organized by @fuchsia_blue which she found immensely valuable. Check out the next season of  London sessions.

📕 Heather’s been reading about Schwartz Rounds which are hugely impactful for developing a “culture of caring” in the NHS. They enable workers to address painful, sometimes shameful experiences workers have by creating an open, non-judgemental and supportive forum with a specially-trained facilitator. It’s also a great example of successful scaling of innovation in the public sector. This might be interesting for people who are curious about the topic of compassion we talked about. Here’s a short video that explains how it works. 

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Until next time,

Gillian 🤘