StressedDave wrote:What did he say? There have been IAM bods on the day before, and some of the presenters have been, how shall I say, a little amusing, with their description of the organisation. One such has stayed in my mind for years: "you get lots of good jam recipes out of IAM groups". Cue spluttering and hard looks.
In addition to the edit I made after you posted...
IcedKiwi wrote:Edit: Thought it was interesting to hear from Mark (and I got the impression that quite a few HPC members were too), that in Scotland, the police are taught to not "offside" (unclear of exact definition of off siding vs straightlining etc) and hence will pull you over if they see you doing it. Maybe someone with more knowledge or understanding would be able to clarify what was meant.
From memory, some others may have better and wish to add, he said that he hadn't seen anything that he didn't agree with, aside from maybe steering, or would be frowned upon by the IAM. He acknowledged that It was a lot more difficult for a common standard to be disseminated across all the individually run groups, but he was hoping to achieve this with his new standard. Someone asked about retesting, and he said it wouldn't be possible due to the number of members and their reliance on their subscriptions. He mentioned the voluntary re-testing and higher awards with the possibility of introducing re-testing for new members. Steve I also talked about HPC retesting and found that peer feedback/recognition/(pressure) worked much better.
He talked passionately about the IAM and HPC, and if I hadn't have heard about the IAM previously, I wouldn't have gotten the pipe and slippers image from attending the day and would be looking towards them as a step towards HPC. I think that view would probably be shared by the other attendees (maybe not some of the current members
who didn't seem too enthusiastic about my steering method "imposed" upon me by my observers EDIT: or my reluctance to BGOL).