Doing the Weekly Update a day earlier than usual because I am going to be out tomorrow evening following the finishing the course I am on for the day so there will not be time tomorrow.
I am actually typing this up today during spare time I have while the course is still ongoing (its 3pm so still 2 hours left for the day on the course) but I have finished the main on-demand content they’ve been wanting us to do this week so I am taking a little break before doing any bonus stuff.
So let’s get into it…
Conservative Leadership Election
Obviously under usual circumstances I would probably be covering the candidates on my blogposts – giving facts and background information on them. But with the course – and also trying to do US primary stuff during spare time (which itself is no where near on track for reasonable completion currently) – I do not have time.
But I am hoping to do candidate profiles once the candidates in the leadership election have been whittled down to just two and there will be loads of time for that as we won’t know who wins until like September.
The first stages though – whittling down the candidates – is going very quickly day-by-day so another reason why there is literally no time to cover other candidates.
Today’s vote by Conservative MPs has already taken place and the latest elimination is Suella Braverman – and considering her recent comments on welfare I am not going to say I am disapointed in that outcome.
To me the most interesting candidate seems to be Tom Tugendhat probably because it would perhaps make the most obvious change to any kind of direction to Conservative leadership and administration. He is more centrist than the other candidates.
Liz Truss seems to me like the Boris Johnson continuation candidate and whom BREXITEER figures are lining up behind. While Badenoch is very much toeing the line of culture warrior. The speech she has used so far will certainly be stirring up some of those on the more harder-right of the party and the so-called anti-woke bloc/voters.
Ultimately though I think the winner will either be Rishi Sunak or Penny Mordaunt. Both are fairly interesting characters and it will be interesting to see how much things change if/when one or the other wins.
But let’s not forget that party leadership elections can sometimes be quite unpredictable. Consider that these current rounds of voting by Conservative MPs should not be used to predict the ultimate winner as Conservative members will ultimately determine the winner between the final two – and they will not necessarily vote the same as MPs.
It is to be noted that some of these candidates likely know they will not win (not that they’d admit openly obviously) but they are merely running to gain prominence, which is fine. So they run > eventually drop out or get eliminated > direct their MP supporters to vote for another candidate > if they end up winning hope for cabinet position.
Then with a Cabinet position or even just the label of having held a Cabinet position nicely positions them for future leadership material.
This Week on Course
This week on the course has been an on-demand week – where we use the Now Learning platform to complete on-demand courses and micro-certifications.
This week the on-demand material has included learning about the IntegrationHub which is a application that allows the platform to integrate with external apps (such as Slack for example) and data using Flow Designer. It included a micro-certification.
Then we also had Performance Analytics – learning how to setup and interpret such information on the platform. We also learned about the Virtual Agent – basically a support chat that can be setup using no code/low code.
There was also Predictive Intelligence – AI built into ServiceNow that greatly helps to improve efficiency. It includes things like categorizing data, classification, routing, recommending actions, picking up on similarities between records, grouping records in clusters for collective addressing and pattern identification, predicting numeric outputs using historical data, creating solutions.
The above includes a micro-certification.
It has all been very interesting. Will not be too much longer now until we come to the end of the course as a whole… just three more weeks after this week, two of those weeks are dedicated to a ‘final group project’ which I am quite nervous about.
Teamwork is something I am still needing a good experience in so hopefully that will be it. Obviously teamwork is something very important for employment prospects…
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