I am fully in the mix with data collection preparation!! I now have over 400 leaders confirmed for my study which is terrific. Additional leader information should be coming from 5 more companies, so I should land close to 500. Note to self –starting data collection before Christmas holidays is not ideal!! That said, the HR Delegates have been wonderful and the timing was necessary to ensure that the quantitative data was collected before the February 2012 RRSP season begins.
It has been a crazy few weeks. Lots of year end activity at work, thankfully I managed to complete the essential tasks. Christmas was lovely, very busy with preparation, but highly enjoyable throughout. Looking forward to fun and frolic tonight as we ring in 2012!
I have just completed my plan for next week. I have a Skype call with my Henley supervisor on Wednesday morning and then with the HR Delegates in the afternoon. There will be a great deal of final preparation to complete on Tuesday. That said, I am looking forward to 2 FULL days of no work and no research!! I am also hoping to take a SUN vacation in February after I have completed my first round of data collection. I am enjoying both work and research but definitely need a break to rejuvenate.
On a final note, I just reviewed my high level project milestones and am generally tracking well. My biggest gap is writing. By the end of December I should have written 50 pages and I have only 18!! I have been inserting bullets and ideas into my dissertation but need to establish a better system to ensure that I WRITE. This is essential advice that I have been given repeatedly but have not yet operationalized it in a way that works for me. More to come on this in 2012!