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People seek simple solutions to complex problems but how realistic is this?
The office would be a happy place if it wasn’t for one individual. If it wasn’t for all this bureaucracy we could do the work quicker and better. Every thing was fine before they changed to this...
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Blair McPherson
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08 juil. 2024
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Sandy Bums
Sand in your bits is uncomfortable. Dry sand is easier to brush off than wet ,clingy, sand so let the sun do its work before trying to shake it off. Away from the beach and back in...
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Blair McPherson
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08 juil. 2024
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The vital role design has within Place – based practice.
To discuss design within a place perspective we need to clarify the difference which exists between Urban Planning and Urban Design. Urban planning involves the development and...
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Sam Whitmore
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05 juil. 2024
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Neutrality policy dialogues
Dr Koko Zhou at UCL is working on a project that explores neutrality-policy perspectives through a systems-thinking approach, focusing on environmental neutrality in carbon emissions (net...
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Katie Gronow
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04 juil. 2024
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When a house is like an organisation
You’ve got the right house but does the furniture fit? It’s a big old house but it has been modernised to a high standard. The kitchen is open plan and big with bi folding doors opening on to a...
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Blair McPherson
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05 juil. 2024
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Grandads are more fun
Dads are for making you feel safe. Grandads are for Fun. Directors are paternal they are in charge, in control, giving directions and instructions, having high expectations and can be...
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Blair McPherson
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01 juil. 2024
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Nothing ever happens
The Martians could landed in the car park and nobody would care so sure are some employees that nothing ever happens to really change things. But that could change now Generation Z are...
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Blair McPherson
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28 juin 2024
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Relationship Support for Parents in Prison
HMP Nottingham and Nottingham City Council are working together to pilot healthy relationship education for prisoners who are Dads. Did you know: Having a parent in prison is a recognised...
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Esther Jones
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27 juin 2024
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Reducing Parental Conflict
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The Sunday Breakfast Show
What does a high quality Oracy education look like?: The Sunday Breakfast Show Join Sobia with Sarah Lambert discussing what a high quality Oracy education looks like.
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Esther Fatoba
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26 juin 2024
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Thanks for the fish
What can dolphins teach us about team work and fun? Dolphin are clever, friendly , eager to please and work well together. In many ways they are like the best version of us apes. Apparently they...
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Blair McPherson
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25 juin 2024
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Slow food, slow service, it’s meant to be that way.
We have come to expect and even demand the service in restaurant to be quick. I am not talking about fast food places I am referring a good quality restaurant not your every day eatery but...
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Blair McPherson
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26 juin 2024
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Peeing in the pool
The pool is your organisation. You know some people are doing it, you just don’t know who or why? “Can’t be bothered “, “No one will notice”, “ Every one does it”. Some even boast about it....
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Blair McPherson
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23 juin 2024
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How to Reactivate Inactive Community Members
Dealing with inactive community members is one of the biggest challenges any community manager will face, and it can be the make or break time for the continuation of the community. As the...
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Michael Norton
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11 juin 2024
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How SyFi helps us understand leadership
The fact that it is a spaceship and not an office, the future and not the present, an alien world not our own, turns a rather dry review of leadership styles into an...
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Blair McPherson
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10 juin 2024
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The powerless manager
The manager is a marginal influence. There are very few brilliant managers. Those that are ,are very much the exception. Most just get on with it with varying degrees of competence. They know what...
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Blair McPherson
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08 juin 2024
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Holding feet to the fire
It sounds like a torture technic used by some despicable totalitarian regime. In fact it was a phrase used to describe holding an organisation and its leadership accountable. It certainly conveys...
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Blair McPherson
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08 juin 2024
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Empathy Day
Today is Empathy Day. Working in the early years sector we focus a lot on the personal, social and emotional development of our children. Helping them to learn the language to express their...
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Liz Hodgman
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06 juin 2024
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LGA Early Years
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I worked for a cool manager
There are managers who are bullies and managers who are rising stars , managers who are fence sitters and managers who are innovators. But only a very few managers are truly cool. If...
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Blair McPherson
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30 mai 2024
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Anger at work
There is road rage, social media vitriol and increasing reports of abuse of shop workers. The public are angry and increasingly willing to express it. But what I want to focus on is office anger,...
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Blair McPherson
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31 mai 2024
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Not up to the job
I was too trusting Other people let me down I didn’t ask the right questions I forgot my values I didn’t understand the technical stuff but was reluctant to admit it I...
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Blair McPherson
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27 mai 2024
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AI Chatbots
Paul Gray and colleagues at Scottish Government Library have created an excellent guide to AI Chatbots and Search Engines. It'll show you the pros and cons, the dos and don'ts, and the fine...
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Helen Blockwell
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Dernière mise à jour:
24 mai 2024
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The Smart way to deal with bullies
A group of Hells Angels roar up to a transport cafe and noisily tumble through the door shoving and pushing each other. There is one customer a truck driver who has just sat down to eat a...
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Blair McPherson
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24 mai 2024
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School Uniform Donation Appeal 2024
Not every child starts school in August with a new uniform, and this can profoundly impact their self-esteem. Our mission is to ensure that every child experiences the same sense of belonging as...
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Collette Moran
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23 mai 2024
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The fox is in the hen house and other cryptic messages.
The door is open but they insist on climbing through the window The gardener-my garden is full of weeds the herbicide isn’t working. I need someone to pull them up by their roots. We...
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Blair McPherson
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23 mai 2024
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Talking your way out of trouble
The smooth talker doesn’t make up implausible excuses, like my dog ate my home work or the WiFi went down , they admit their mistakes, apologise and use humour and flattery to get them selves out...
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Blair McPherson
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22 mai 2024
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Children coming into care: when data tells us the what but not the why
The publication of the latest Children’s Social Work Statistics 2022-23 ‘Looked After Children’ data at the end of last month (April 2024) should provide us with a picture of what’s happening for...
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Micky Anderson
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21 mai 2024
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Best career advice ever
“I'm giving you a chance to survive this place not a f****ing career opportunity “ The tattooist of Auschwitz
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Blair McPherson
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19 mai 2024
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Do we expect too much from the workplace ?
I was reading an article on how important it was that employees were made to feel they belong. Whilst I agree it is a problem if people feel they don’t fit in or belong in a team or organisation I...
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Blair McPherson
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19 mai 2024
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Friends teaching AI to be sarcastic
Artificial Intelligence (AI ) like Sheldon has trouble detecting sarcasm. The very brainy Sheldon is like AI very literal. But that could soon change using episodes of US comedies like The...
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Blair McPherson
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17 mai 2024
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Some of the best solutions come from informal conversations!
Scottish Recovery Network brings together people, services and organisations, across sectors, to create a mental health system that is recovery focused and powered by lived experience. A key part...
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Christine Muir
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15 mai 2024
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“ We never ever do nice and easy”
In the intro to the live version of Proud Mary, Tina Turner says, “ We never ever do nice and easy” she was talking about the energy they put into their performance but if you know...
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Blair McPherson
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19 mai 2024
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Job Opening: Zero Carbon Council Policy Project Lead
"Are you passionate about climate action and committed to driving change and supporting our internal work on carbon management to become carbon neutral by 2030? We have an excellent...
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Kunal Prasad
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12 mai 2024
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The best ever episode of Four in a Bed
Four couples compete to see who has the best value for money B&B. Having been treated fairly by everyone else the couple had an apparently unbeatable 100% final score. Just to be sure of...
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Blair McPherson
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08 mai 2024
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Bible now Illegal ?
Early in May (this year) the Antisemitic Awareness Act was passed by US Congress. It is a Bill which among other things criminalises any passage of any book (including the Bible)...
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Ian Messenger
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04 juil. 2024
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Biblical Christianity
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Spuddle -17 th century
They’re hard working, they put in the hours, no one doubts their commitment. Pity they‘re useless. Their diary is full of meetings from early morning to early evening. Their mail box is full....
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Blair McPherson
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05 mai 2024
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What is the Historic Environment Skills Forum?
The Historic Environment Skills Forum was launched in November 2022 in direct response to Action 1.1 of the Heritage Sector Resilience Plan. The purpose of the Skills Forum is to...
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Phil Pollard
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01 mai 2024
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It’s expensive and one day it will work
It wasn’t Covid. It wasn’t the War. It wasn’t leaving the EU. It wasn’t the Trade Unions or the Government that brought the largest Local Authority in the country to its knees. It was IT....
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Blair McPherson
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01 mai 2024
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Intelligent, clever or smart
The problem with calling AI Artificial Intelligence is humans may increasingly mistake it for human intelligence and defer to it attributing intellectual powers to machines that they don’t have....
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Blair McPherson
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25 avr. 2024
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Alzheimer Scotland Advisor Service
Thank you to Elaine Edgar, Dementia Advisor, Alzheimer Scotland for writing this article for Inverclyde Supporting Self Management. Hello, I’m Elaine Edgar and I am the Dementia Advisor...
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Annette Wilson
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24 avr. 2024
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Inverclyde Supporting Self Management Community of Practice
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No experience require but excitement guaranteed
When you’re young, just about to leave school or university isn’t this exactly what you’re looking for in a first job? This particular recruitment advert was accompanied by a picture of an...
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Blair McPherson
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23 avr. 2024
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Metadata & Asset Discovery - Round 2
Hi All. Thank you for your input into the metadata guidance so far. In line with your feedback and our most recent session, I have decided to use the blog posts in Knowledge Hub more as a...
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Kathryn Reynolds
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23 avr. 2024
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Skills Forum Webinar Series
The Historic Environment Skills Forum host a series of bi-monthly webinars focused on heritage skills issues. Webinars will be grouped under one the following three themes A) Showcase: Guest...
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Phil Pollard
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06 juin 2024
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Internal relations make the difference
What makes a difference to an organisations success and what makes a difference to a managers effectiveness are the same - internal relations. Strong , positive, supportive internal relationships...
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Blair McPherson
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15 avr. 2024
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I am the Question not the Answer
Organisations look to leaders for the answers but effective leaders ask questions. Good questions. Good question prompt others to focus on the right things and come up with solutions. Blair...
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Blair McPherson
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14 avr. 2024
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Place and Wellbeing Outcomes, Indicators and Intentions
‘A Scotland where everybody thrives’ is the overarching ambition of Public Health Scotland’s (PHS) Strategic Plan 2022-25, which focuses on improving life expectancy and reducing health...
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Amy Stevenson
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22 avr. 2024
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You’re getting sacked in the morning
It’s a chant beloved by opposition supporters to taunt rival managers during a bad run of results. It’s even worse if your own supporters join in. Real Madrid supports traditionally wave a white...
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Blair McPherson
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07 avr. 2024
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Resenteeism
Not every one is lucky enough to love their job but it can’t be good for an organisation to have significant numbers who hate it! Lack of job satisfaction, low morale, a stalled...
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Blair McPherson
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06 avr. 2024
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What she did was wrong but was the punishment too harsh ?
Mavis had been a care worker in this large 60 bedded traditional residential care home for older people for years. She lived just round the corner. She was a middle aged woman with a family who had...
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Blair McPherson
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04 avr. 2024
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“ Do you know how to land this ?”
Every air craft needs a pilot for take off and landing These are the difficult bits of flying. It’s the same with organisations the difficult bits are getting lift off, it requires a lot of...
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Blair McPherson
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02 avr. 2024
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What story does Scotland's latest statistics on child protection tell?
The Scottish Government has this week (26 March 2024) published the annual child protection statistics for August 2022 to July 2023. While waiting for this year’s publication, a key question was...
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Alexander McTier
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27 mars 2024
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When management only pretend to care
There is delegation and then there is abdication. Some organisation refer all complaints made to the Chief Executive (CE) back down the line to the responsible manager. So the complainant can find...
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Blair McPherson
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20 mars 2024
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Atamis
I am working in collaboration with two other public sector organisations to address current performance issues with the provider, Atamis. We are keen to understand if any other...
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Amy Halkyard
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18 mars 2024
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Odd , unusual and often bizarre behaviour by managers
You have heard the story about the famous Rock band who’s manager placed a rider in the band’s contract that they be provided with a a bowl of M & N’s in their dressing room but with no...
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Blair McPherson
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17 mars 2024
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Naked person on the bus
It’s apparently a surprisingly common occurrence for London Transport. The unusual may not be a surprise even so there is a big difference between identifying the fridge thief and catching the...
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Blair McPherson
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12 mars 2024
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The difference between courteous and helpful
My recent experience of trying to resolve a problem as a customer has made me realise that the people at the other end of the phone don’t understand the difference between courteous and helpful....
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Blair McPherson
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07 mars 2024
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Depends how you look at it
Our financial problems are because we are not competitive and we are not competitive because we are inefficient due to a reluctance to embrace new technology and change working practices. Or our...
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Blair McPherson
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07 mars 2024
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The problem isn’t AI it’s people
People are teaching AI bad habits. It’s like when your Dad teaches you to drive. People put too much faith in untested technology. People can’t be trusted not to abuse the power and opportunities...
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Blair McPherson
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06 mars 2024
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DO YOU REALLY NEED AI MODEL DEVELOPMENT? – THE CORRECT WAY OF USING AI
me-consuming and costly process. It requires a significant investment in terms of resources and expertise. Yet, it allows for greater flexibility and control, as you can tailor the model precisely...
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Ibiixo Technologies
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01 juil. 2024
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No excuses
The football manager who after a disastrous run of results points out that with a relatively small squad, an exceptionally long list of injuries, including the top score, they have been...
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Blair McPherson
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05 mars 2024
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Data Governance: creating a Framework
One of the most difficult questions for anyone undertaking Data Governance is where to start? For many the need for better data quality will be the main driver and indeed it's likely...
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Sally Kerr
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05 mars 2024
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I thought my job was safe because no one else would want it.
It was a senior manager the restructuring was presented as more of a reshuffle. The boss said he wanted to move people around. He had done this before in responcse to a criss in one area of the...
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Blair McPherson
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24 févr. 2024
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February 2024 SysTime
SysTime is STIG's series of interactive seminars. We are currently working our way through the Systems Thinking Toolkit on gov.uk, and this month we focused on Tool 4 in this guide - Behaviour Over...
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Katie Gronow
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22 févr. 2024
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Running on empty
Juergen Klopp shocked the world of professional football recently by announcing he would be leaving his post of manager of Liverpool at the end of the season. What surprised...
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Blair McPherson
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13 févr. 2024
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But he gets results
That was always the excuse but was the past about to catch up with him? You know the type their motto better to ask forgiveness than permission. Innovative and creative when it came to finding ways...
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Blair McPherson
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13 févr. 2024
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More than one way to lose an argument
Managers particularly senior managers spend a lot of time in meetings. It’s the way most organisations do business so it is rather surprising that so many managers report finding the experience...
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Blair McPherson
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08 févr. 2024
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The opposite of a dysfunctional team is not a nice team
He was a very nice man but an ineffective leader. She was abrasive, opinionated and intolerant of those less experienced. Together they frustrated and annoyed the rest of the team. ...
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Blair McPherson
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08 févr. 2024
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4 days a week
My school maths text book set the following problem. If a boat being rowed by four men can cover a mile in 10 minutes how long would it take a 10 men to row the same distance? The assumption being...
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Blair McPherson
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04 févr. 2024
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Be curious
Tattooed on the arm of every Cnief Executive and Council Leader, Portfolio holder and senior manager. Be curious, ask the right questions, if the rumours persist investigate...
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Blair McPherson
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01 févr. 2024
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First line managers are both the problem and the solution
First line managers who don’t look after their people or who don’t know how to look after their people undermine an organisation. First line managers who look after their people enhance an...
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Blair McPherson
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01 févr. 2024
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The Away Day Hell
I’m not talking about team building trust creating rope climbs or raft making. I’m talking about taking the team away from the office to sit all day in a stuffy over heated hotel conference room...
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Blair McPherson
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31 janv. 2024
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Is AI a car crash waiting to happen?
According to a Guardian article self drive cars will be on UK roads by 2026. According to many business analysts organisations are increasingly reliant on AI to make the big business decisions....
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Blair McPherson
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30 janv. 2024
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I’m not feeling it today
“ They are really annoying especially in the workplace” Joked Jodie Foster famous actor and mentor to a number of young people. “They’re like: ‘ Nah , I’m not feeling it today. I’m...
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Blair McPherson
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25 janv. 2024
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SEHP's monthly newsletter
Hi all, Please find attached a link to the partnership's monthly newsletter, which includes introductions from our two new team members!! January Newsletter ...
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Madison Roberts
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19 janv. 2024
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As cooperative as a dung beetle but not necessarily smarter
Scientists have discovered that dung beetles are the only creatures that cooperate like humans in moving an object to over come obsticals. (Guardian 17 January). Which presumably reinforces...
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Blair McPherson
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10 févr. 2024
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Of course leadership makes a difference but does it make The difference.
“ I’m not afraid of an army of lions lead by sheep. I am afraid of an army of sheep lead by lions.” Alexander the Great. But maybe he should have been a little afraid. Poor...
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Blair McPherson
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16 janv. 2024
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