You can't learn everything in a day. So why try to create long-term change in an afternoon workshop? Is your staff fatigued by initiatives and professional development seminars? Does 'innovation' make them wince?right people , at the right point in time , for the long haul . Get in touch with Ewan and NoTosh will draw up a plan with you to help move your strategy forward on solid ground.
"It's a process, not an event.
Dating is a process. So is losing weight, being a public company and building a brand.
On the other hand, putting up a trade show booth is an event. So are going public and having surgery.
Events are easier to manage, pay for and get excited about. Processes build results for the long haul."
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For Classroom Teachers
Medium & Long-Term Coaching No time to mess about with computers? Can't see the point of most technology when you've got a whiteboard, a wit and a class set of books? See professional development as an unhelpful interruption when you've got marking to do?
Teachers have one of the most time-poor, cash-poor jobs going, so "adding" to that with "new initiatives" will always provoke a well-merited groan. NoTosh believes the best, most permanent and most enjoyable changes in practice happen when:
The structure of professional development ebbs and flows with the realities of the demands in a school year;
The mentor or coach is someone who is great to be around, someone who you want to hang out with and learn from;
A good chunk of the learning can be done when you want, even if that's at 10pm with a glass of merlot or during a brief blank spot in the timetable.
We are working on a new format of professional development, the 100 hour challenge, and are seeking educators who wish to undertake it, change their practice to something they and their students enjoy more and, in return for a big reduction in the cost of this programme, help us make it better for future teacher-learners.
Contact Ewan, in confidence, to talk through how we might be able to work together.
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For Head Teachers, Local Authority Managers
New Tech For More Efficient Public Services
Beating 2011's Public Sector Crunch Public agencies will only really feel the full effect of the credit crunch in 2011. Prepare for it now.
NoTosh offer a package of support for senior and middle-managers in the public services, lasting any time between one and six months, from £1,500. We reckon we'll save you at least double that in waste and your time.
Rare are the agencies, consultancies and advisers that are actively involved on the sharp end of bleeding edge digital media production, and who dedicate significant time to bringing the lessons learned from this financially tight, bootstrapped arena to the public sector.
We'll do that at a time when it's never mattered more.
With a company core rooted in education, NoTosh aims to help the public services benefit from expertise normally kept within the corridors of technology startups and media companies:
Analysis of existing knowledge-sharing in your organisation or establishment and recommendations for improving this. We'll reduce the waste that's inherent when the training you've delivered and paid for doesn't make it beyond the conference folder;
Productivity sessions for senior and middle-managers. Get to grips with your desk, your office, your time, and spend your time where you need to: with your people.
Contact Ewan, in confidence ,
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For Private and Public Investment Funds
Bringing Products To Market Improve the quality of your deal flow Ewan McIntosh has developed online, mobile and gaming products with some of the freshest startups in the North of the UK, converting about 3% of proposals into deals in his previous role as Digital Commissioner at Channel 4's Innovation for the Public Fund, involvement with education startups and as the co-founder of BarCampScotland.
Now, through the involvement of his close network of industry best-of-breed expertise, NoTosh Limited can offer startups and their investors a critical friend at pre-launch or as they prepare for fresh funding rounds:
help investors with sourcing the best startup talent;
help startups with sourcing, pitching for and arranging co-investment in their area of the UK;
debriefing on potential for marketing, social marketing and word of mouth strategy;
organising training seminars on emerging technologies or approaches;
research summaries on key youth markets.
Contact Ewan, in confidence, to talk through how we might be able to work together.
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