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A challenge for all creative, wordy people out there...

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edam · 02/06/2006 21:03

I need to come up with a title for a document I'm writing and am all out of inspiration. So though I'd see if I could pick any brains here. It's about beginnings - the aim of the document is to rally the troops (not literally, just people working in a profession) and say, kind of, here's a fantastic opportunity, see what it can do for you.

Background - it's about a new policy which could do amazing stuff for you and possibly save the day. (Am not writing this for the people who came up with the policy, but am trying to enthuse people on the ground and demonstrate some examples of people making it work for them). But people out there are cynical and justifiably so.

Have tried 'seize the day' which might work but kind of cliched.

Star prize for the best suggestion!

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edam · 02/06/2006 21:16

Pretty please?

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Marina · 02/06/2006 21:17

You Saw It Here First
Inspiration and Salvation - limited stocks only

Marina · 02/06/2006 21:17

Toolkit for Success

Marina · 02/06/2006 21:19

I have a sinking feeling this might be for the NHS (you don't have to answer that edam)

No wonder you are stuck - is this a press release/briefing note about presumably a much longer, more detailed document...

motherinferior · 02/06/2006 21:19

Oh b*gger, one of those; er, can you give a little more info re subject area?

motherinferior · 02/06/2006 21:19

(Tomorrow Belongs to Me won't do, will it?)

Marina · 02/06/2006 21:26

MI, I thought of The Great Leap Forward...perhaps not. Edam, give her a clue and MI can do it!

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edam · 02/06/2006 21:26

Ooh responses, hurrah!

LOL at inspiration and salvation. I've been looking up Henry V the night before Agincourt - shows you how desperate I am!

Sink away Marina, you are correct. But I'm writing it for an independent body. The thing is it really could work for people at the frontline - if they take control of it. If not, it'll end up being yet another heirarchical/managerial irritation that gets in everyone's way. Anyhow, the document is stuffed full of examples of real people from loads of different professions doing real things very creatively. Honest.

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edam · 02/06/2006 21:28

Snigger at Great Leap Forward, the Chairman Mao stuff does keep running through my head, somehow.

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Nightynight · 02/06/2006 21:28

shorter hours & free beer. sorry, I am a cynic where work is concerned!

Marina · 02/06/2006 21:30

Putting YOU back in the driving seat?

It's bad if you are looking at stepping into breaches...

MUST go, dh thinks I am doing online banking Blush

Good luck

Marina · 02/06/2006 21:31

The Nightynight Chair in Workplace Motivational Studies...

motherinferior · 02/06/2006 21:38

My brain is about as inspired as yours, I reckon. If you email me a few more details I can ponder over the next day or so....

Can you play around with anything like 'show me the money'?

SoupDragon · 02/06/2006 21:39

Speaking form experience, I think anything you come up with will be poncey, cliched and nauseating!

nooka · 02/06/2006 22:29

I think in the present climate you might do better to use a very straightforward "does what is says on the tin" type title. People are very very cynical at the moment in the health world. I'm in quality improvement, and have done lots of variations on a theme "Working together to improve", "Improving quality together", "Learning from others to make things better" etc etc (all very motherhood and apple pie). Usually I spend hours flicking through the thesaurus for variations on quality and innovation, and they still usually some fairly feeble. Try talking aloud about it to someone and see what words you are actually using and then work them into something.

nooka · 02/06/2006 22:31

oops - some = sound (and I was pretending to sound literate there Blush)

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edam · 02/06/2006 22:55

Cheers Soupy, was actually trying to avoid that, if at all possible.

Marina comes close to star prize, I think.

Nooka, agree about Motherhood and Apple PIe. Problem is the big important person who is my key comissioner here keeps suggesting song titles/yrics and it is really distracting... So You Say You Want A Revolution and so on. Hopeless. (But Help! made me snigger).

Oh f*ck it will call it Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds and have done!

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hunkermunker · 02/06/2006 22:59

Ob-la-di, Ob-la-dah might be appropriate...!

Or Ob-la-di, Ob-la-blah?

Not helping, am I?

VeniVidiVickiQV · 02/06/2006 23:00

You/We can decide how the story ends....?

hunkermunker · 02/06/2006 23:03

Choose Your Own Adventure?

No.

Again, not helping.

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edam · 02/06/2006 23:05

Will end up with at this rate!

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VeniVidiVickiQV · 02/06/2006 23:09

LOL Edam. What about "Make your own mission statement" then....?

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edam · 02/06/2006 23:13

Maybe we should covermount some fridge magnet letters so people can make up their own title!

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trefusis · 02/06/2006 23:14

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edam · 02/06/2006 23:14

Do you think I could get away with 'Never Mind The Bollocks'?

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