{"id":370,"date":"2019-03-06T08:20:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T08:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thorpebird.com\/?p=370"},"modified":"2021-12-03T12:38:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T12:38:03","slug":"down-with-pink-and-fluffy-theres-nothing-soft-about-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thorpebird.com\/down-with-pink-and-fluffy-theres-nothing-soft-about-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Down with pink and fluffy!   There&#8217;s nothing soft about development&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where did \u2018soft, pink and fluffy\u2019 ever come from as a term in relation to people\u2019s development?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You know \u2013 the kind of development that helps people have conversations they\u2019ve been avoiding for months \u2013 which keep them awake at night?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or giving people the confidence to step in when a more senior colleague is about to be just a little bit casual when it comes to the care of a vulnerable service user?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or helping people work out how on earth they can do this thing called \u2018leadership\u2019 with a team of 9 people they\u2019ve just inherited?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I definitely don\u2019t see development as pink or fluffy \u2013 it\u2019s way too important for the people working on it themselves \u2013 and the organisations paying for it. Development has a \u2018hard edge\u2019 \u2013 and something which has a place to help organisations deliver strategic goals, whilst also making people\u2019s experience at work more rewarding and challenging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So down with soft, pink and fluffy! Leave it in the bathroom\u2026..and let\u2019s start a different story, about development having a harder edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where did \u2018soft, pink and fluffy\u2019 ever come from as a term in relation to people\u2019s development?&nbsp;&nbsp; You know \u2013 the kind of development that helps people have conversations they\u2019ve been avoiding for months \u2013 which keep them awake at night? Or giving people the confidence to step in when a more senior colleague is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thorpebird.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thorpebird.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thorpebird.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thorpebird.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thorpebird.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thorpebird.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thorpebird.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thorpebird.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thorpebird.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thorpebird.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}