 Hiya everybody and welcome to my November newsletter back in the shed in lockdown 2.0 Hope you're all staying safe and well and keeping your spirits up Just a few things to tell you about this month Firstly and just a bit of a story really I was contacted recently by someone will then we'll call her Julie who works for a company that I've been I've had some relations with on and off over the years for quite a while and Her people had been they'd taken to working from home really really well They've been carrying on delivering really really well and also continuing to make the cultural changes within the organization that that have been needed and Julie really wanted to Basically get across how how amazed she was how impressed she was and how grateful she was and If she was in the office, she would have just organized some kind of informal, you know social Get-together celebration. Thank you event, but we're all working from home. That was really difficult So she thought outside the box or more accurately inside the box because what she did was she organized a care package to be sent to all these people So it was a bit of a surprise and in the box She's she added some chocolates and you know a personal message and a few bits and pieces here in there and also a copy of Team mastery so she got in touch said can I have a bulk batch of your team mastery books? I thought it was a great idea something. I'd love to support so What's shipped out a bulk load of books to her discounted price and she sent them off? To all these people and I got to see LinkedIn post Twitter post of people opening these surprises and it was brilliant I thought it was absolutely fantastic I think it's really important to let people know that they're there that they're appreciated their notice They're not alone that you care for them So if any of you fancy doing anything like that then and I can help out in any way Then let me know. Yeah, so that's that's the first thing. Well done Julie. What else have I been doing? I've been doing quite a lot of speaking at internal community events to a community of practice events internal Q&A sessions things like that brown bag sessions Luncheon learns all those types of sessions. They're really cool. I really like them So if any of you are interested in getting me in to talk to one of your community to practice or an internal event Then get in touch and we'll see if we can make it happen Sandwich in some slightly sad news. Don't blame me blame Brexit on the 1st of January 2021 I'm going to stop selling my books and cards on the European Amazon sites There's there's so much paperwork and hassle and registration and things and duties and taxes and things Involved in it, but it's just not going to be worth it anymore. So if you are in Europe apologies It's nothing personal and if you were thinking of buying a pack of my coaching cards from Amazon then now's the time to do it Because 1st of January they just won't be available anymore Sorry about that. The good news is though. I'm going to be running a competition I think it's a good competition and in conjunction with a friend of mine I won't tell you who just yet. You're gonna have to keep an eye out for this I'm gonna be giving away lots of my team mastery milestone cards and you could even win a whole deck for every member of your team So, I mean, that's it. That's quite a big prize So keep an eye out for my social media posts for when that goes ahead over the next couple of weeks And yeah, you got to be in it to win it And finally, I've got a few new things coming up. You would be surprised if I didn't I'm sure So I'm really looking forward to an upgrade on my website soon I mean, I think it's brilliant already, but we're upgrading it even more So that'll be out in a few weeks time I've also got a Spanish translation of scrum mastery coming out soon, which is quite exciting I'd love to be able to just click my fingers and make it available to every single Country's native language if I could but it takes a bit of time. So Looking forward to getting the Spanish version finished and also we're gonna have a new slimline version of team mastery coming out soon as well so that's all exciting and If you don't like dad jokes, stop listening now Because those of you who used to receive my newsletter know I always try and put a little joke in at the end And they're always cringe-worthy, but hey, I like them So my joke for you today is what do Santa's helpers do if they catch COVID-19? They have to elf isolate Anyway, that's enough for me. I'll speak to you again next month. Look after yourselves and take care