Mind maps

This week was a short one because of the Bank Holiday.  I am looking forward to September 23, the date of the TUPE because at the moment I feel as though I were caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.  Not that either charity has a bad approach at all, it’s just that I have very little information about how the new one will be working and not very much more about how the old one has been running up until now!  

Two days later

Getting to know a new job is always hard.  There is so much information to absorb at once but because of the looming TUPE it’s so hard to know what will stay the same and what will change.  However yesterday I had a useful meeting with the new charity and the a supervision with the line manager in the old one so I feel a bit better than I did when I wrote the paragraph above.  Theoretically I feel a lot more confident about my ability to effect positive changes on what goes on in the rooms for the children than I do in making a business which is running at a loss into a profitable concern; but I seem to need to spend more time  working on the latter than on the former which is where my heart is.  I guess I have to do both.

Today is my day off and I have made wild plum jam and been for a swim, but also spent time sitting on the living room floor making mind maps of aspects of the nursery.  So far one on providing a high quality service from the children’s point of view and the other on making a smooth transition to the new management.  I need to do others of course.  Maybe one with ‘Sustainability’ as the aim, also probably “Moving to a green RAG’ and ‘Preparation for OfSTED’.  Indeed I need to get on with the OfSTED one as they are bound to come in the next few months following notification of new manager.