A Marvellous Night For a Moondance

Well here we are again and on a Thursday too! A very warm welcome to the CIOBS Blog.

That's us nearly at the end of another week and what an interesting week it has been. Your very own Raymond Brown has been out and about this week and his travels have taken him to Fife and Renfrewshire. He is very popular in both places. So much so that he is making return visits next week.

I have had a few enquiries this week regarding the results of the Chartered Banker and related Diploma examinations which took place recently. The scheduled date is 5th July. Results will be posted on our website on or about that date. Not long to go now and good luck to everyone involved.

Congratulations to my colleague Pamela Harrower who took part in last weekend's Moonwalk Edinburgh 2008. Pamela walked in aid of charity. Well done Pamela. Pamela did the full moon which covers a distance of 26.2 miles. The half moon is a distance of 13.1 miles funnily enough!

My spies tell me that a male member of the CIOBS staff was spotted in the Meadows area of Edinburgh at the end of the walk. Did he take part? What was he wearing? I think we should be told. Did he do the Full Moon or the Half Moon?

Today we have a delegation of members of The Beijing Financial Education Centre visiting us here at Drumsheugh Gardens. A warm welcome to you all on this sunny morning.

This week's Podcast is now available on this website and Inflation is very much to the fore. Don't blame me I only report what is going on!

A big thank you to the correspondent who raised the question of management speak this week and sent us some examples of the same.

"My least favourite business-speak term is not enough bandwidth. When an employee used this term to refuse an additional assignment, I realised I was completely 'out of the loop'."

I once had a boss who said, "You can't have your cake and eat it, so you have to step up to the plate and face the music." It was in that moment I knew I had to resign before somebody got badly hurt by a pencil.

"The latest that's stuck in my head is we are still optimistic things will feed through the sales and delivery pipeline (i.e.: we actually haven't sold anything to anyone yet but maybe we will one day)."

Do you use any of the above? Do you know someone who does? Maybe you have some more to add. Please let me know. All correspondence to michael@ciobs.org.uk

Michael (Pushing the envelope)