to despise the fact that all paperwork (most of it being irrelevant and piss boring) is referred ot as a bleedin' 'toolkit'?

[moondog]

This nasty habit particulalry prevalent in educational/social services circles.

I want to scream 'A toolkit is a big metal box full of hammers and spanners you numpties, not a bloody great box full or useless bureacratic crap put together by an emascualted civil servant with tinned ravioli for balls and a jelly for a brain!!!!'

Am in v v v bad mood today. Obv

I could get away with 'circle of trust' without anynoe batting an eyelid.

Poss. even 'circle of life'.

(Thanks Elton & Disney)

it's rhyming slang?

go on then moondog I dare you.....

They are all good folk though, the ones I work with

how about getting the "salmon of doubt" in?

Where was that? I missed it.

you didn't miss it - thought I would do some blue sky thinking and generate some bullshit of my own (well courtesy of Douglas Adams....)

It would probably ease into the lexicon with no problem whatsoever.
Reminds me of my mother's favourite.
If someone is getting on your nerves, say 'Oh tickle your arse with a feather.' They look up, barely credulous and say 'Sorry?' at which you smile innocantly and say 'I said, particularly nice weather we are having at the moment.'

Exit gracefully leaving extremely perplexed/puzzled/enraged tormenter behind.

I am so going to use Circle of Trust tomorow! (sorry about the spelling but i haven't got google spellcheck on my work laptop)

So if you're in a meeting tomrorw and are handed a Toolkit by a Scottish bird who uses Circle of Trust, you know who I am

I've remembered what the Umbrella was - it was 'The Umbrella of Protection' (yes, really!) We even had a visual aid - an umbrella with lots of pieces of paper dangling from it, although we weren't told what the writing on the paper said, and it wasn't absolutely clear what the Umbrella of Protection actually meant or how it related to the aforementioned Triangles.

lol umberella of protection!! Where do they get them from? Custado's website?

I've used umbrellas before. It's supposed to show how a variety of factors become a single thing. Not much use if you don't say what the factors are though! You can also use a pillar analogy, if you prefer architecture - ie you need all these things for the building to stand up. I made a particularly nice jigsaw for quality a while ago. Looked very nice as a logo Of course in my mind all these things are very helpful - what other people think is less certain (although I've always got nice feedback - perhaps because I rarely actually talk to my slides, so people remember what I have said, not my lovely diagrams!)

Apart from circle, don't forget 'wheel'

Just looking through some old presentations - not mine, thankfully.

More food for thought:

Peak of inflated expectations -> Trough of disillusionment -> Slope of enlightenment -> Plateau of productivity

Virtuous circle

Strategy on a page

watch out for those 'paradigm shifts'

don't forget to 'strongly align yourself with business objectives' ...

Has anyone read 'who moved my blackberry'? It is i thought hilarious ,especially the bit where he makes up a new word by squashing two together . I have to say that so far other than care pathways , i seem to have missed most of the NHS sh*te ,mind you i am a lowly nurse who spends most of her time cleaning the stuff up as opposed to speaking it

Infact my 'toolkit' consists of gloves apron,wipes and spray ! I want a new buzz word for runny poo ,i have tired of loose stools ,always used because i can never remember how to spell diahorrea

I'm in a painful nonagon of uncertainty until I know whether Redtartanlass used "circle of trust" and to what effect.

oh lingle. Was so going to fib and make up a wonderful, clever and amusing story of how I slipped it into the presentation....but bottled it However leanrt a new acrynom

PoD - Presentation of Delivery!

People were talking about Pods and I thought whay are they talking about peas?

PoD is good too.

oh I've just remembered another thing we have - as well as tool kits, we have palettes. I guess for the more artistically inclined. palettes seem a bit more gentle and feminine and creative.

I could "get away" with circle of trust except for one quite big hurdle - I wouldn;t be able to say it without pmsl. not good if you want people to feel inside side circle.

rofl at 'palette'
It's quite quite insane, all of it.

I was really impressed the first time I heard 'toolkit' - I thought it would be something really useful and practical. I flipped through the bleeding document about 3 times trying to work out where the actual tools were before I realised there weren't any

rofl @ palette

i hate workshops " do wear loose clothing"

and HOUSEKEEPING when they tell you where the bogs are.

Oh Tony, yes ,yes, yes to both!
(Do you work for my Trust?)
I believe I may have uttered the dreaded 'housekeeping' once or twice, being veteran presneter of many a training session.

Gah, what have I metamorphosed into??!!!

its the worst ever. And they always say" just a couple fo housekeeping items" in an apologetic tone.
Hildon table water and foxes glacier mints.
and a frigging flip chart - aims of the sessions that noone gives a shit about.