Monthly archives: June, 2012

Jubilation

When it comes to the Queen, I’m a big fan.  It’s become fashionable to mock the pomp and circumstance and to view her Highness as a dusty old relic of a bygone age, but to do so is to misrepresent a monarch that has done more to modernise and adapt than any predecessor – and …

Leadership

Today I had the privilege of addressing the graduating cohort of about forty-five students and their police trainers from the Natural Born Leader’s programme being run by Greater Manchester Police.  This great programme takes young people on a week-long course to develop their natural leadership skills. The speaker before me was Duane Bryan, who was a …

Breaking the cycle of training

This article first appeared as a guest blog on the GMCC Blog on 22 June 2012. I’m a technologist. I have an iPad and an iPhone, I have Android and Windows devices, I have an Xbox, a PS3, a Wii and even an AppleTV. It would be natural to think that I believe in technology …

The Metro is Open!

Right, let me start by apologising for being a bit lax on the blogging front.  To be fair the Wi-Fi connection in Rhodes was a little underwhelming, and although I did pen an article it disappeared into the ether.  However, I’ve not been wasting my time off!  Thanks to everyone who left me so many …