“Support” can mean anything from Spanx to a premium rate phone number, so I chose “human” as this is about the real thing - support from people. This will be an ongoing subject because I enjoy ongoing support from, you guessed it, people J
This week I particularly felt the support of colleagues and professional associates.
I had cause to reach out to people with whom I’ve shared professional challenges and successes. I was buoyed up by their input. I generally linked my job satisfaction and performance to them (a fantastic bunch). Achieving objectives with these expert colleagues was always a real buzz and I learned every time. What I discovered is that they consider me an expert too. It was extraordinary to read unambiguous accounts of our work together and discover I - marketing manager - was also instrumental in our projects and highly valued for it. So a big thank you; you know who you are – and I can’t wait to work with you all again
I also benefitted from the Media Leaders event at Living Room, where I sweltered along with about 100 others and met some fantastic new professionals. DLA Piper have a 21st century working culture including its web activity; nice one. Weber Shandwick has invested in a studio to offer cost effective video creation; another step forward for this leading PR agency. Spoke about change management with an IT executive from PZ Cussons; good to know we’re all in it together on that front. Talking about my own organisation, Forward Ladies, whose purpose is human support, ignited interest and buy-in from all, particularly two inspiring executives from BDB. Thank so much Su Allen for bringing us together!
Finally, I stole some quite time to listen to an old Podcast in which this network, Forget-me-Not, was featured and kinda made me think maybe human is the only support worth having:
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