It’s hard to manage interns (or is it?).

They’re young, energetic, and often require a large time investment. If you didn’t ask for an intern, you might feel that they’re in your way. If your intern isn’t performing well, it may be easy to blame them (though it’s not usually their fault). And, if your intern is costing you more than they’re repaying the organisation, you might start to get a little resentful.

Managing interns can be a tricky thing to navigate, but it doesn’t need to be.

Over the last few years we’ve worked and engaged with dozens of organisations who have a fully-fledged internship system, and a whole lot more who are making increased efforts to welcome interns into their organisation.

Sally Attwood and Amanda Davies from Public Health Wales kindly volunteered to share their experiences for this interview. 

In this article we will be asking Sally and Amanda about a huge relocation project they’ve managed recently, where they maximised the reuse and refurbishment of office furniture, and how they’ve managed to:

Did you know that you can take a look at Warp It’s best performers for thirteen different categories?

It’s true, go ahead, take a look, you can see who the best individual user is, or you can see which organisation has saved the most carbon - it’s all there for you to view.

Making Reuse Mainstream

Our aim is to make reuse mainstream and give you the tools and tips to help you do that in your organisation.

In 2018 we are delivering a series of regional workshops. The objectives of the workshops are

• Help existing Warp It customers (and main players across the region) collaborate with each other to maximise reuse internally and externally. 
• Share experiences of barriers and solutions to help others maximise reuse.

It is much better way of learning to listen to peers talk about their experiences rather than consultants, experts (or even listening to us)! 

• There are people out there who have worked out the short cuts to success. 
• There are people out there who have made all the mistakes there are to be made already.
• There are people out there who have a wealth of knowledge to share.

We have decided to get these people together and do a workshop as part of our support offering.

The topics are vast and the things you can learn will be amazing (if you are into increasing organisational reuse!).

During 2018 we will deliver regional workshops to bring this experience to you. 

Will you share your story?

We are all coaches. One way to coach is to give presentations about your learnings and experience.

This article is all about why you should share your knowledge and experience.

You build and deliver projects as part of your duties at work.

You have developed professional expertise.

You have your own unique set of skills, knowledge and experience that you have picked up delivering projects.

Think about all the ways you can use it to impact others’ objectives. Sharing your knowledge with colleagues is a great service.

I would go as far as to say it is a waste of your time NOT to share your story- because if you keep all those experiences to yourself then others will have to go through the same process of learning.

You can give them the short cuts to success by passing on your experience. When you share what you have learned with others you help them to save time, resources and money.

Why you should share your story

• You want to help your peers.
• You want your peers to be able to repeat your project in their organisation.
• You need to tell everybody about your challenges, what worked, what didn't work.
• You need to tell your colleagues in other institutions what you failed at, why it failed, so they can avoid your expensive mistakes.

And on a personal level

• Much greater personal impact
• Respect and recognition from your peers and colleagues
• Further your career

Ready to introduce a reuse programme, or improve on the existing system?

Read ahead and find out the best practice for using a meeting plan to get more buy ins and increase support from your stakeholders.

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This article is all about how we help universities around the globe reduce environmental impact and maximise the value of their surpus assets like furniture, equipment, stationery and even fleet!