I spent the week in London undertaking various activities. Some of which had to change due to transport issues and the high summer temperatures.

We had our team away day in the London office.

Spent some of the week working on a collaborative activities report that will very likely be published in September.

It’s the time of the year where I have to refresh my mandatory training, this time it was on information security and data protection. I approach these with a positive attitude, I realise some people think of this as a tick box exercise, I don’t.

Attended an action learning set, which was an interesting training session. Something I hadn’t really done before.

Had lunch with a few of our relationship managers in the London office. Always nice to meet up, chat and discuss stuff with them.

I did some field research looking at geographical challenges in collaboration. I was intrigued by the setup at the old Olympic Park where quite a few universities, both London based and nationally, have sites. I was wondering what the issues would be for students if they collaborated together on areas of the student experience. One thing I found was that, looking at a map provides some insights, but doesn’t compare to actually physically being in the location and walking the walk. Really helpful in feeding into my work on optimising operations and collaboration.