Before I get into my main topic of conversation today, I’m going to have to give a bit of background information about myself.  As well as writing about all things wellbeing for Make Me A Plan, and doing Student Nurse Stuff of course, I’m a...

School’s out for summer – bring on the sunshine, days out and ice creams! This all sounds brilliant, but what about work? You can’t just drop everything for six weeks! So, Fans of Plans, let’s take a look at different aspects of seasonal work this week to see how we...

When this Philosopher-in-Residence was a youthful undergraduate, pondering Politics and German at the University of Southampton, I used to describe myself as a Hobbesian Kantian. A beverage-break-sized blog is probably not suffice to give a full precis of Hobbes or Kant,...

This week, I had an amazingly positive conversation with one of my close friends.  Now that I’ve finished university for the summer, we’ve been meeting up for long walk and talks on Southampton Common and, on our last meet-up, they asked me how they...

Hello there, Fans of Plans! In this fortnight’s blog I’m going to be looking at an area of management that can be the most tricky to get right – people management.    Some managers are seemingly natural people managers – they have that...