reflective practice

Hurrah! Reflective practice sounded like it was going to be a touchy-feely navel-gazing hyphen-fest, but it just means evaluating your work. That can still be hard as the to-do list beckons.

Evaluating work is necessary to improving performance and decreasing the time it takes to do a piece of work next time. While I find it tricky to set aside hours to evaluate my work in writing, if you do then you'll be ready for:

• your upcoming assessment
• the interview
• handing off projects to other people
• sharing best practices with colleagues  

Not to let myself off the hook too lightly with this blithe listing of the benefits of reflective practice, here is my CPD23 reflection:
I've been doing the easy parts and skipping pieces of work that seem to offer little upside (like Pushnote which so many people have had difficulties with).
In general the week by week unveiling of new tasks is incredibly motivating, as is the feeling of being in this cpd23 boat with a lot of other inexperienced sailors.
This blog has been resurrected half-heartedly, but I think I've already reflected on that in earlier posts. Instead, I have put some energy into adding to the Twitter feed and been librarianishly pleased to not just be a taker of information but also a giver.
More time spent reading other cpd23 blogs would be useful, as would adding feeds to Google Reader and reading them.

It has been about a month since starting cpd23; I will check in with reflective practice on cpd23 again at month 3.