After the usual information exchanges and updates, we were treated to a sample of the corporate team-building and communication exercises from PSYBT client, Max Marshall, of Giggle Point who (I kid you not) had us juggling scarves, crouching under a parachute and trying to locate an object with our eyes shut. Now, your writer has, in the past, been accused of some scepticism about team-building and such-like and it is well-known that I lack the co-ordination needed to move inanimate objects in a meaningful way but IT WORKED. We had a hoot and learned some pretty valuable lessons. I still can't juggle, though. (I have no photo's from the session and, if I had, I wouldn't post them. Dignity is all I have left) .
After this excitement, and to confirm everyone's impression of the beer-and-skittles life of a PSYBT Manager, we toddled off down the canal by boat (what else?) to our Chief Exec's (Mark Strudwick) house for a barbecue. And a good time was had by all. Thanks to Mark and Jan for their hospitality (and the Pimms).
It was also a time of farewells. One of our seconded IT Team, Martin MacPhie has gone back to his proper job and so has Paul Bowtle who was seconded by the Royal Bank of Scotland to bring some semblance of reason to our human resources procedures. Then, to cap it all, Charles Doeg-Smith, Fife regional manager and one of PSYBT's old-stagers (12 years, for goodness' sake) announced that he was off to do good works with the social inclusion programme in his area. There will be more of Charles' departure in future posts, I'm sure.
Oh, and Simon Fraser's back in Grampian; just for a short time (which is good for my liver) but it was good to catch up.
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