Return from holidays and looking forward to the future

“This week I returned from two weeks holiday – Monday morning was quite a shock. As were the scales when I jumped onto those. More weightwatchers and cycling required and in very quick order.

My third shock of the week was that I spent a full day interviewing for a new PA yesterday as after ten years working together Jane has decided to retire. Fortunately I had five excellent candidates and I was refreshed to see just how good our staff are under some tricky questioning. I shall announce who my new PA is in due course.

On Wednesday we had a good session led by the Programme Office on the subject of my last blog – Wiltshire 2021, what we need to achieve over the next 5 years and how we will deliver that. I have had a number of comments and observations from staff which we have built into our work. We are working towards sessions with Cabinet and the Associate Directors over the next few months. We will also of course engage with all of our staff on this so your thoughts about how we achieve this will be greatly received. 

To those of you about to embark on your holidays I hope you have a great time.

Speak again soon. For daily updates, discussion, personal opinion, comment or just to connect or keep in touch you can follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/drcarltonbrand.

Carlton"