Keep getting dragged away from the weeding by my colleague.

She and I are working on a poster and handout for a conference next week. Huge poster - nearly as tall as me!

The snag is that she's a Belbin 'Completer-finisher' and I'm a Belbin 'Plant' so you can imagine the fun we have trying not drive each other mad.

Fortunately I've worked with a former colleague from TheOldPlace who was much better at 'completing' than I will ever be, so I've some experience of reining myself in and trying not to be *too* irritating. Although I've no doubt that S would say I wasn't always successful.

As it's really been my colleague's project till now and she'd already done a first pass at the poster, I was feeling a bit like a spare part, but a particular delight was when she let me loose with the poster for a hour or so to see if I could improve it and as it happened she did like the changes I made. And my ideas for the handout. It feels much more of a shared project now. (And we'd both like to win the competition they have for best poster/handout). [1]


[1] In fact my colleague reminded me the other day that she'd originally invited me to come and help present the poster because there's a third element to the prize and that's on how the delegates stand beside their poster promoting it.