From the Coleface

DECEMBER 24, 2014

A straw poll of members included the question: “What’s included in your firm’s approach to enhancing the professional development of its e-learning people?” A beautiful metaphor, but is it true to life? The Professional Services e-learning Forum draws it members from the UK’s largest accountancy and legal firms.

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From the Coleface

AUGUST 4, 2014

The results of this mini-poll are that one dismissed it out of hand, one went for it and one whilst initially keen had the idea squashed as it moved up the chain of approval including their legal department.

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From the Coleface

OCTOBER 16, 2009

So I took a straw poll of my Instant Messenger contacts. Posting up a photo is not exactly difficult and should take all of 20 seconds. My first hypothesis was that people’s reluctance to post a photo of themselves was down to it being a work thing. The results were: 15% photos of just themselves. 15% photos with someone else.

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From the Coleface

JANUARY 13, 2010

For instance, Vaughan Waller’s straw poll at his accountancy firm (Moore Stephens) revealed that 100% of graduate trainees thought it was reasonable for the firm to block access to Facebook. I guess that most people working at corporates and large professional firms like to keep their work and personal lives reasonably separate.

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