|
|
|
PPhunnybonus Home |
PPhunnybones References & Reading |
PPhunnies at Work |
PPhood for Thought |
PPhurther Education Dip.App.Gelotology |
PPhunnybonus Contact |
|
Hugh Gibbons'
good-humoured goodies
for Pharmaceutical Physicians, |
About PPhunnybonus |
Hugh's new good-hughmoured in-house workout on good business communication skills (and in a good cause) |
||
|
PPhunnybonus is an offbeat website started in 2012 - fun with it sleeves rolled up and complementing more straight-faced information around you. But useful, nevertheless. You'll find here four good-humoured forms of helping hands for readers of Pharmaceutical Physician, colleagues, counterparts and friends. Others beyond BrAPP may warm to it as well - and you're very welcome to explore and enjoy things, and chip in if you feel like it. PPhunnybonus grew out of the kind invitation by the Editor of Pharmaceutical Physician to contribute a column in each issue - which I've called PPhunnybones. 1. In return, I suggested that it would helpful for readers to have on-line background information for each article. And you'll find these in PPhunnybone References & Reading. 2. Rummaging around, I remembered that for fun-filled lectures - such as those for the MSc in Pharmaceutical Medicine - I'd made use of slideshows and paper versions of Textually Transmitted Diseases and How to Write Gooder. So you'll find info on these and other learnings-with-a-laugh below with PPhunnies at Work. 3. To let PPs and others have a sort of offbeat voice, I dusted down something from Ahaa! meetings and suggested you'd enjoy PPhood for Thought. It's a simple conduit for you to put in your pennyworth on such questions as: what don't medical directors want managing directors to ask - and vice-versa? The contributions should make useful topics for informal departmental discussion or over lunch if that's still available. 4. Finally, I thought that a couple of medical or managing directors might warm to the idea of an unusual sort of in-house sandwich course. The Just1 Diploma in Applied Gelotology offers suitable companies a season of laughter-filled late-morning tutorials on unsung skills, plus clinics in literacy - funding a very good cause. Incidentally, thought Phunnybonus and Just1 are completely independent, everything appearing here will have been seen by the Editor of Pharmaceutical Physician and the Manager of BrAPP before going public. It's so I can be happy that I'm not treading on any toes or sensitivities. Yes?
They currently include:
For more information,
click here
Fees go direct to good causes - for example, from the company to benefit a remarkable UK charity supporting education for vocations among disadvantaged children in India, and to a small charity caring for orphans in Zimbabwe.
For initial information, click here.
|
============================= Hugh Romain Honoré Gibbons - known to schoolchildren as Huge - was first educated at Moseley CofE Primary and King Edward's School, Birmingham, whose old school song asked pupils to "die of service, not of rust." From Trinity College Dublin he gained an MA, and went off to be a teacher of English and Economics before becoming an advertising copywriter. He then had a career in the pharmaceutical industry that took a scenic route: leading creative services, product marketing and business information teams. Hugh later became associate editor of The Pharmaceutical Times in its early years - inter alia writing, reporting, researching, training and conferencing.
At the same time, he created PsyPhaa - later Ahaa! - a sort of psychology association for anyone in any job interested in the human side of organisations. Many of the 100+ open-to-all meetings and training courses were hosted by pharmaceutical companies - together with RAF stations, New Scotland Yard, NHS Trusts, hotels, the National Theatre, and a Benedictine Abbey. These settings encouraged a unique and eclectic audience and speaker mix. He also helped the world-leading Professor Adrian Furnham with social psychology research, becoming an Associate of the Business Psychology Unit at UCL. Ahaa! was also unusual in that in time all meetings fees were replaced by donations to humanitarian agencies such as CAFOD, Action Aid, British Red Cross and the Disasters Emergency Committee. As a spin-off, Hugh is now a popular public speaker. (He's seen here enthralling the Chair of the forerunner to PIPA during an after-dinner talk using RAF flying helmet as prop. Don't ask.) He's been invited to Sandhurst Royal Military Academy to lecture the War Studies Group on medical services in the, ahem, Roman Army. A Royal Navy frigate, the RAF, Rotary and similar clubs, church groups, colleges and schools, archaeological associations, medical societies, U3As and NADFAS have been among his audiences. But he turned down a request to lecture on P&O cruise ships. His eclectic topics include the Flighty Women of White Waltham, Art & The Spanish Civil War, Flying Tales of the Unexpected, Silk & Spices for the Caesars, and Protecting Portillo's Privates (on body language, for goodness' sake). See www.ahaa.org.uk/flyingcrooked for information. He is currently learning the trombone.
One outcome has been a major UK contribution to the annual Stand Up
Against Poverty around the world. Since 2009, tens of thousands of schoolchildren
have shared Hugh's Promises to the Poor. www.just1.org.uk is the site of more information. |
|
For more information at any time, contact Hugh Gibbons E-mail: hughgibbons@just1.org.uk
|