Michelle Walder, new Albion director

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

I was interested to see that the club has appointed its first female director. But after reading the announcement on the website several times, I'm no nearer to understanding what she does for a living.

http://www.seagulls.co.uk/news/arti...r-brighton-hove-albion-directors-3166401.aspx

"Ms Walder is CEO and co-founder of global leadership and business consultancy experts TXG, and joins the club as a non-executive director. She has wide experience in strategic HR policy matters and also in senior level people development."

You what? There's more:

"Ms Walder co-founded TXG in 2004 to deliver bespoke leadership effectiveness projects for clients all over the world."

I apologise deeply for my entirely unworthy reaction, but all that gobbledygook reminded me instantly of this (starting at 3' 35"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tPTeYuBT_s

What a load of old shit!
Get home and get the dinner on love.

 

[Peteinblack]

I was interested to see that the club has appointed its first female director. But after reading the announcement on the website several times, I'm no nearer to understanding what she does for a living.

http://www.seagulls.co.uk/news/arti...r-brighton-hove-albion-directors-3166401.aspx

"Ms Walder is CEO and co-founder of global leadership and business consultancy experts TXG, and joins the club as a non-executive director. She has wide experience in strategic HR policy matters and also in senior level people development."

You what? There's more:

"Ms Walder co-founded TXG in 2004 to deliver bespoke leadership effectiveness projects for clients all over the world."

More of the vacuous corporate bullshit and Orwellian management-speak which is rife in Britain's companies and public sector organisations today.

I trust she will also be 'robust', 'customer-facing', 'innovative', 'cutting-edge', 'forward-planning', 'foster collaborative synergies with external stakeholders', and 'conduct 360 degree appraisals' in a manner which 'delivers accountability and transparency'

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Oh, how depressing. If I had a daughter (which I don't) I'd be a lot happier if she aspired to become a professional sportswoman than a dancing, prancing, baton twirling piece of eye candy. The woman's game will never compete with the men's, but it's still good entertainment. I went to a couple of games last season, they were very enjoyable, and I'm delighted they've made the step up to the super league next year. I'll definitely be going along to some of those. Admittedly, I'm a bit of a BHA obsessive - I'm happy to watch the men, the women, the under 21s, pre-season friendlies, even those crappy early round league cup games that not many people seem to get too excited about. We should be SO proud that we support a club that is prepared to invest so much into the women's game.

Paradoxically you have just demeaned any young girls or boys who aspire to be professional or amateur dancers.

Why is performance art not as worthy as sport?

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Paradoxically you have just demeaned any young girls or boys who aspire to be professional or amateur dancers.

Why is performance art not as worthy as sport?

Fair point, my intention wasn't to demean anybody. It's just that my recollection of Gully's Girls is of something just a little bit, well, shabby, involving lots of shaking of those ribonny things, and short skirts. What I'm trying to say is that we shouldn't be in a place where only the boys are allowed play tough, physical games, and the girls are at best just allowed dance and look pretty.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

I don't know Michelle Wilder so I can't really comment but I'm going to anyway. Reading the website, TXG look like your typical management consultants who specialise in providing no value at all. They will come in, spend 3 months telling you how to run various aspects of your business (which they will know very little about) and then bugger of never to be seen again. Within a week of their leaving, everything they changed will have reverted back to how it was. No one will complain because 1) it will have cost a lot of money and no one will want to admit it was wasted and 2) some people will have enjoyed the numerous meeting buffets.
Miss Wilder (as most of her type) will have spent one or two years working at numerous companies. They move on a lot to prevent people realising they do not add any value and so they can add to their LinkedIn profile. Interestingly TXG list BHA as a client. I thought Tony had more sense.

That was what I thought.

According to her company website, "We partner with you to achieve your business objectives by leveraging your people's potential. We will guide, explore, and advise you as to the right approach for your business, then introduce the experts who will deliver our agreed solution.

We specialise in three core areas:

Executive Coaching - One-to-one coaching. Team coaching. Group coaching
Board & Team Effectiveness - Leadership team assessment. Facilitation
Leadership Development Consultancy - Designing and delivering development programmes to address specific business needs, either face to face or using other platforms. Off-site, conference and programme design, development and delivery. Learning and development strategy

If you are looking to develop your people in an innovative, results-orientated and pragmatic way, we are the team for you."

Ah. 'Partner' used as a verb, 'leveraging your people's potential', 'solution', 'facilitation' - management-speak words and phrases to make the heart sink. What does any of it mean? What do they actually do?

Mind you, I like the part about team and one-to-one coaching. Could they coach Jake Forster-Caskey to get a corner over the first defender, do you think?

 

[tinycowboy]

Interestingly TXG list BHA as a client.

Hmmmm - IAS 24 alert?? Big shout-out to the NSC accounting massive.....

 

[ROSM]

I thought Diana Stanley (who was a trustee of the Stanley family trust alongside bill archer - as well as Greg's missus) was our first female director back in 1994

Anyhoo I would say a good hr person on the board may be valuable given how our hr management has had a interesting few years

Some focussed coaching and exploiting potential is no bad thing. Just hoping that the office staff aren't asked to complete a margerison mccann profile anytime soon, cos we do lack some completer finishers

 

[Albumen]

I get that bit, but does supporting womens football do that? ALl the female Brighton fans I know have absolutely no interest in the womens team.

I'd add to that young girls still miss Gully's Girls, they were real role models for a lot of daughters at football and did great work in the community. I don't see the same benefit from the womens football team?

 

[GreersElbow]

Seems like a sensible appointment, due in no small part to the rise of the women's team.

Although I'm sure some of you are joking (possibly...), but if we can try to keep the misogynistic nonsense of this thread please, that would be peachy...

Yeah but that requires thinking...

I don't know Michelle Wilder so I can't really comment but I'm going to anyway. Reading the website, TXG look like your typical management consultants who specialise in providing no value at all. They will come in, spend 3 months telling you how to run various aspects of your business (which they will know very little about) and then bugger of never to be seen again. Within a week of their leaving, everything they changed will have reverted back to how it was. No one will complain because 1) it will have cost a lot of money and no one will want to admit it was wasted and 2) some people will have enjoyed the numerous meeting buffets.
Miss Wilder (as most of her type) will have spent one or two years working at numerous companies. They move on a lot to prevent people realising they do not add any value and so they can add to their LinkedIn profile. Interestingly TXG list BHA as a client. I thought Tony had more sense.

****, quickly email Barber raise this massive oversight you have found. Your intense analysis on the basis of looking at a website and your personal experience must be of relevance to them.

 

[Brovion]

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I'd add to that young girls still miss Gully's Girls, they were real role models for a lot of daughters at football and did great work in the community. I don't see the same benefit from the womens football team?

Jeez. You're usually quite a sensible chap but that is an absolutely shocking comment for anyone to make in the 21st century.

 

[Wellesley]

If we go any further down this PC route we will find ourselves employing homosexuals, where will it all end?

God I hope not, we'll end up getting a reputation that we're a bunch of nancy boys. Can you imagine the stick we'd get from away fans. I don't think I could handle it. I'd probably have to scream for a policeman.

 

[Igzilla]

It is indeed , its actually a "gif " but the animation does not work as a avatar

Episode 1 of The Space Museum.

*cough* I'll get my coat.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Jeez. You're usually quite a sensible chap but that is an absolutely shocking comment for anyone to make in the 21st century.

Giraffe has shown, in the past, quite a contempt for women.

 

[LamieRobertson]

 

[Hillian1]

Giraffe has shown, in the past, quite a contempt for women.

Care to elaborate on that or just going to chuck accusations about.

 

[BrianWade4]

Any pics?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Care to elaborate on that or just going to chuck accusations about.

Just chuck accusations about.

 

[Hillian1]

Just chuck accusations about.

Sums you up to a tee.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Sums you up to a tee.

Thank you. I'm flattered you know me so well.

 

[grawhite]

I get that bit, but does supporting womens football do that? ALl the female Brighton fans I know have absolutely no interest in the womens team.

I'd add to that young girls still miss Gully's Girls, they were real role models for a lot of daughters at football and did great work in the community. I don't see the same benefit from the womens football team?

Women's football is a breath of fresh air, players not demanding huge wages and unlike their male counter parts not diving all over the show like little girls.