It is the third year in a row that I have dedicated a whole reflection blog for professional self-care & happiness. Check out "My little 'astuce' to professional happiness" from 2022 and "Professional self-care for 2023". Since my last International Day of Happiness blog, I started to: 🎯Focus more time on my self-development📅Reclaim my calendar… Continue reading Professional self-care for 2024
Category: Good practices
You need competence to recognise incompetence
What role does competence play in our day-to-day life? Ever heard of the Dunning–Kruger effect? It is a cognitive bias where people with limited ability in a specific area overestimate their own abilities. This is not to be confused with the popular belief that "stupid people are too stupid to know they are stupid". Instead the… Continue reading You need competence to recognise incompetence
The wise words of 2023
I pen this blog as a reflection of the various international days that Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) celebrate each year, in particular wellbeing often being a sector-wide theme that touches all staff and students - this December, as many of us, I have also been reviewing the last 12 months, and identifying any shortcomings on… Continue reading The wise words of 2023
Behind the scenes of being a winner
7th Oct 2023 marked the start of a new journey for me. 40+ million people worldwide have been on the journey, with only 8500+ members actively pursuing their mastery, and one single winner - ME! Yes, I won the first prize in the Life Mastery Achiever programme, a grand prize worth $10,000 of coaching by… Continue reading Behind the scenes of being a winner
Being a humble student
Did you recently join a meeting or a training where you said one or both of these? I already know that Me too In the academic sector, it often seems like everyone knows better than everyone else; the "Professor" knows better than all academics and researchers, the "PFHEA" is the ultimate knower of everything -… Continue reading Being a humble student
How you do one thing is how you do everything
In the space of world-class achievers, we say that "How you do one thing is how you would do everything". Over the years, I have had the opportunity to be a volunteer for a number of organisations and endeavours in various roles: Organising Conference Committee, Conference Chair, Committee Chair, Panel Speaker, Journal Reviewers, Executive Committee,… Continue reading How you do one thing is how you do everything
Professional self-care for 2023
Last year my post "My little astuce to professional happiness" (https://bit.ly/3CzgWGH) was beyond valuable to me (as a reflection), so much so that I have been compiling new self-care that I have adopted since then to share for the International Day of Happiness 2023. Before the pandemic started, it was clear to me that I… Continue reading Professional self-care for 2023
Being inclusive in climate activism – My Greenpeace externship as Strategy Analyst
Reviewed and edited by Dr Teeroumanee Nadan My passion to create a sustainable environment by being an agent of transformation and increase my experience in the field of climate change made me seek international experience for upskilling. Thus, started my externship journey with Greenpeace USA(https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/). In this blog I provide a short summary of how… Continue reading Being inclusive in climate activism – My Greenpeace externship as Strategy Analyst
Reflections & contributions CIE Islands of Innovation 2022
It has been my first Islands of Innovation participation and I got assigned to Group 18, with Island Guide Tunde Varga Atkins. I include in this blog my contributions to the event and share further reflections that participants might find useful. Committment to Reflective Practices & Disruptive Practices The first activity was quite provocative and… Continue reading Reflections & contributions CIE Islands of Innovation 2022
A contribution without recognition: My contributions to the AdvanceHE PSF Review 2022
Recently, Advance HE invited ALT Assembly members for a UK Professional Standards Framework (2011) Review Consultation, I registered to attend, mainly because I have been quite critical of some sections of the PSF. This blog sums up some of my suggestions for improvement, these were made during the meeting and also on a Padlet (https://padlet.com/juliebc18/psfconsult),… Continue reading A contribution without recognition: My contributions to the AdvanceHE PSF Review 2022
My little “astuce” to professional happiness
Today, is International Day of Happiness, a day where we celebrate being happy, and then sabotage ourselves the remaining 364 days into not being happy. I am writing my thoughts as a reflection on what I have done the last few days to be happy in my professional activities. Of course, there have been several… Continue reading My little “astuce” to professional happiness
Taking an action-oriented approach to recruitment – Steps 1 & 2 ONLY – My ARLT SIG presentation 9th March 2022
This post is solely for the purpose of an activity I am running on 9th March for ARLTSIG. Ice-breaker prompts: Is your team/dept recruiting at the moment? Or did you recruit recently? How many vacancies are/were available? Or do you plan to recruit in the near future? https://teeroumaneenadan.com/2021/12/22/equity-analysis-of-job-blurbs-talkinghe-podcast/ Watch out for the language you use… Continue reading Taking an action-oriented approach to recruitment – Steps 1 & 2 ONLY – My ARLT SIG presentation 9th March 2022
A positive step towards reducing discrimination in recruitment – A case study of UAL
Are you an active antiracist looking to make a difference in the recruitment process in your team and department? This blog features: An interview with Matt Lingard, highlighting the small steps he undertook to positively tackle racism in the recruitment processConsiderations if you wish to implement such an approachHow to further effectively eliminate discrimination in… Continue reading A positive step towards reducing discrimination in recruitment – A case study of UAL
Improvising it – My ARLT SIG activity for 10th Feb 2022
The best growth opportunity for any facilitator is to improvise. So, when event Chair suddenly dropped from the call, I had to improvise as I was not kept in the loop of what was planned. Fortunately, I eat challenges for breakfast. This post summarises the activity I ran on 10th Feb for ARLT SIG, which… Continue reading Improvising it – My ARLT SIG activity for 10th Feb 2022
Reflections from my SFHEA fellowship
Today, I finally got my AdvanceHE Senior Fellow certificate in my inbox. It has been a rather long wait, as I had my application in mind since 2017, yes, I have been three years overdue on putting in my application. However, I felt it was for the better, as the additional years of experience secured… Continue reading Reflections from my SFHEA fellowship
Impact Coaching & Mentoring (ICM) for Leaders 