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RACKing Up on Q1

  As Q1 2025 draws to a close, and before you power forward into Q2, do you know how to effectively  process and consolidate the lessons from the past three months? Quarterly progress should be  progress, which means it needs to include reflection, association, and conscious knowledge   in order to be purposeful, and bring genuine benefit to your organisation. So, what is RACK , and how can you effectively apply it to your team's planning? Reflection What did you fail at  in Quarter One? - List all  your failures. - Go through the list, and using either different coloured text, or different symbols, whichever is most effective for your team, identify each item on the list, distinguishing them as: . Failures that are entirely down to your own/your team's  human error . Failures which are partly, but not wholly, down to your/your team's human error . Failures which are down to circumstances beyond your control Be as honest as possible with yourself ...

Why A-Level Results Matter, How They Don't, and What's Wrong With Results Day

  A-Level results day (15th August 2024) has, in recent years, become overwhelmed with social media posts proclaiming that "results don't matter!" and shouting as loudly as possible about business success stories who "weren't academically successful, but are now doing way  better than that person in their class who got straight As!" This bandwagon may have started as a genuine desire to offer comfort to teenagers who were shattered by their first encounter with a particularly harsh reality: that hard work doesn't always guarantee the results you want, or need.  However, it's now become nothing more than a particularly toxic stage for adults to centre themselves and their achievements - "Hey, look at me, kids, I f--ked up completely in school, because I thought it was stupid and boring, and I'm doing okay!" This does harm on several levels: 1. It takes away the pride and sense of achievement which are the foundations of self-esteem and s...