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SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · 11m

📢Back with a Bluesky review of the week
😪back & jet lagged
👨‍🏭meetings about potential work
🌐website final amends
💡meeting on future of work event
🥳Acumen #interimmanagement article goes live
✍️lots of LinkedIn follow up work
📲next #TheHangouts with @mikeshawmcr.bsky.social
🥰social meet ups
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SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · 8h

and gorgeous they are too

Recently wrote in my one....it did take me a while

Too nice to use

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SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · 8h

I keep notes in notebooks and then keep them to refer back to....totally wild

I also like to buy handmade notebooks, who would have thought it possible! 😄

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Andrew Jacobs @andrewjacobslnd.bsky.social · 10h

A chance to hear from experts in podcasting and learning and how to make audio work as a learning intervention.

Talk Record Change lostanddesperate.com/2025/10/10/t...

Talk Record Change

You’ve heard me talk about the Podcast Learning Festival’s themes of Talk. Record. Change.Here’s what that actually means. 🎙️ TALKWhere learning meets conversation.Panels, live podcasts, and …

lostanddesperate.com

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 2d

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 2d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · 8h

What a way to honour a former colleague from long ago, who passed away suddenly
than by meeting up to celebrate her life & talk about old times at work
Mary, Tricia and I used to all work together

Tricia loved the V&A
We toasted her with tea & cake & art 🪻🥰

#lookup

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Atwater
“With each passing day, the AI space looks more and more like the USA’s home mortgage securitization at the peak of the 2007-8 housing bubble with its overlapping series of capital conveyor belts.”

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SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · 4d

🧘‍♀️❤️📘Taking time, post timeout to read some more newsletters

So much of this from Ann-Marie Barlow resonates so much from the batch-cook to the difficult convos, this newsletter is a delight

#learning #organisationaldevelopment #leadership

mailchi.mp/energisedeve...

Let's talk about hobbies.

mailchi.mp

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SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · 4d

📢Back from vacation to some lovely inbox reads including this from @liammoorecoach.bsky.social

So much to love about this one......the postcards from metaphorical journeys is just one of them

#coaching

preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

Newsletter #11: On Coaching: Know Thy Limits

preview.mailerlite.io

SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · 4d

💡📣Back from silence and being on holiday.....too present for social media posts and discovering some great learning session finds lurking in my inbox like this one

@millerknoll.com Insights series always full of wisdom and learning

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-...

Designing for connection: A sociotechnical approach

with Caitlin Begg - founder, Authentic Social & sociologist

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · 4d

📢I was away for The Hack? Still, I've read enough to know that signing this petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation is important to do.

Want to join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

you.38degrees.org.uk

SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · 4d

Totally frustrating.....I know I'm late to reply on this thread but better than the non-existent reply I had from Yodel

Not a great Customer Experience

I will avoid them if at all possible in future

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SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · 4d

🧠🎨👩‍🎨Back from vacation to an inbox of interesting emails to go through

Really looking forward to attending this webinar on 24 October

#Creativity #workplace

www.blackmetric.com/event/unlock...

Unlocking the Creative Mind: Lessons from a Business Poet with Kate Jenkinson | Blackmetric Business Solutions

What makes us human? More than our ability to reason, it’s our unique capacity to think both logically and poetically. In this session, you’ll hear about the

www.blackmetric.com

SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · 4d

My pleasure, slowly spreading the word on social....very slowly 🐌😆

SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · Sep 8

☹️Cutting customer services by half on the promise of AI efficiency....seen that before

Tom Fishburne nails it with this

"AI alone won’t fix sludge. #AI may make sludge harder to escape."

Marketoonist: "How to Navigate Customer Service" cartoon marketoonist.beehiiv.com/p/marketooni...

Marketoonist: "How to Navigate Customer Service" cartoon

Weekly hand-drawn business cartoon from Marketoonist Tom Fishburne

marketoonist.beehiiv.com

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SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · Sep 8

Gosh has Tom Fishnburne on the Monday #marketoon been reading my mind

This was exactly my recent customer service experience with Yodel

Totally inaccessible from the outside despite their 'high tech' approach

AI risks being another barrier to entry

marketoonist.beehiiv.com/p/marketooni...

Marketoonist: "How to Navigate Customer Service" cartoon

Weekly hand-drawn business cartoon from Marketoonist Tom Fishburne

marketoonist.beehiiv.com

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · Sep 8

BillyChip tokens give people an opportunity to help the homeless in a safe, easy, quick and effective way.

BillyChip partners with Big Issue to help our vendors

www.bigissue.com

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SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · Sep 8

Art as protest

#Banksy #London 🎯

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New Banksy mural appears at Royal Courts of Justice

The artwork, which shows a judge hitting a protester with a gavel, was confirmed by the elusive street artist.

www.bbc.co.uk

SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · Sep 8

Great piece on Nish Kumar's podcast with Dr Zach Seidler

Connect with men, across life transitions, positive, strategic, systemic and holistic

We need more of this

youtu.be/Tt9FbC0NFf4?...

We need to help men find purpose if we want them to exit the manosphere

YouTube video by Pod Save the UK

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SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · Sep 7

Another super Sunday share

Loving this positivity vibe

Coming from Iran as a child and enjoying showcasing the world via places in #London

Go Sama Ansari Pour

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

'I'm visiting every country without leaving London'

Sama Ansari Pour is on a mission to experience culture, cuisine and history from around the world.

www.bbc.co.uk

SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · Sep 7

Super Sunday share

This is lovely to see
I'm not on TikTok so I missed Bus Aunty spreading the joy about London, buses and positivity

Makes a lovely change

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

The TikTok ‘Bus Aunty' who celebrates London’s buses

Bemi Orojuogun was shocked that her videos celebrating London's buses got such a large following.

www.bbc.co.uk

SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · Sep 6

📣🦉Saturday share & some stats

"Between 2023-2024, the backlog of claims waiting to be heard by an employment tribunal increased ...450,000 people are awaiting some form of resolution"

#HR www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1929... @cipd.bsky.social @peoplemanagement.bsky.social

How can HR ease the burden on the tribunal system?

A lack of resources and an ever-lengthening queue of open cases has left the employment tribunal service close to breaking point. So it’s more important than ever for people teams to steer clear of cl...

www.peoplemanagement.co.uk

SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · Sep 5

📢My bluesky review of the week
🔚handover complete & managed another interim gig exit
🎁feedback conversations & learning
🗺️planning #TheHangouts #HRInterimNetworking dates & hoping for no tube strikes
👩‍💻interviewing with a client
🍻networking drinks to say thanks
☎️new client call
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SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · Aug 29

📢My bluesky review of the week
🎢ups & downs of work especially towards handover
⚖️successes & stresses
🥰writing comms, love it
🎁preparing for endings, presents & goodbyes
🤗offering support
🤓tech woes Microsoft business & poor CX
🕵️solved the mystery of the missing spring bulbs parcel #winning😂
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SharonGChiara @sharongchiara.bsky.social · Aug 22

📢My bluesky review of the week
📲meeting great HR folks
🧑‍🏭tiring work week as I head to another handover
⚖️feeling stressed
🎁ending presents
🕸️website review & getting creative
🌐 preparing for networking
🌷missing packages & life admin
💤time to catch up on some sleep
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