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Head Hunters tips 2 
An extensive, well presented and interesting CV wont be enough to get you an interview in the Public Sector. It’s an application form and the important section is Supporting Information. You need...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  25 avr. 2025
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Some people are a lot better at the job than at being interviewed. 
It’s not unheard of for the best person not to get the job because their performance at interview let them down. By best person I mean someone who meets all the criteria has bags of experience and...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  28 juil. 2024
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The clue is in the Chinese proverb
It starts off as a possible missing person enquiry. Then as is often the case suspicion falls on the partner. Is this a murder investigation? The husband is asked to recount the events leading...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  16 sept. 2022
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The gate at the bottom of our yard.
When I was very young, pre school,  I had a best friend who lived across the narrow alleyway behind our house. Every day at some point but usually after breakfast and lunch I would ask my mum...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  14 sept. 2022
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From Rotherham with Love 
 Did you ever fantasise about being a spook. Working for the service. If you did I bet you didn’t think it would be like working for the LA! You would have to sign the Official Secrets Act but...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  09 sept. 2022
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Knowledge Hub upgrade and redesign
After months of hard work, we’re thrilled to announce that the newly upgraded and refreshed Knowledge Hub is due to go live soon.  On the morning of Monday 19 September 2022, the updated...
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Knowledge Hub Team
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Dernière mise à jour:  06 sept. 2022
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A new meaning to hitting the target
 You may have already come across this but for the half of the population not familiar with male public  toilets there are urinals with a difference in some locations. These urinals...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  06 sept. 2022
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Cost of living crisis 
There are reports of employers giving their staff hardship grants, low cost meals and vouchers to buy their children’s school uniforms. Others have set up food banks, provided salary advances,...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  02 sept. 2022
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The obsessive manager
The head hunter is singing the praises of an individual they think is an ideal candidate for the Chief Executive vacancy. There is of course an impressive track record  but it’s the personality...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  29 août 2022
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Community Safety Charter
The Community Safety Charter is a means by which Neighbourhood Watch members, local residents, businesses, and organisations, agree to do whatever they can together to provide an environment...
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Par: 
Maggie Lewis
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Dernière mise à jour:  29 août 2022
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The boy and his dog 
  In a post apocalyptic world a boy and a dog wander the wasteland scavenging. The boy/teenager in the absence of parents or any adult is uneducated and governed only by basic instincts,...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  15 août 2022
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Head Hunters tips 
Your application form gets you the interview your interview gets you the job.    The difference between a CV and an application form is that the application form is written specifically for the...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  14 août 2022
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Big personality Big ideas 
 This larger than life person is interesting therefore what they have to say is interesting. Whilst this doesn’t follow people frequently behave as if it did.  “ People don’t believe in...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  08 août 2022
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Is being ambitious still a good thing? 
I set my self a target to be a Director by the time I was 50. According to research by the Family and Work Institute in the US most people stop jostling for promotion at 35 coinciding with...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  07 août 2022
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Powered by People 
The corporate slogan prominently displayed on the recruitment advert was Powered by People. So what does this bring to mind, a treadmill or the John Lennon song Power to the People ? Do you...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  02 août 2022
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Seek out the reluctant candidate 
Seek out the reluctant candidate who needs to be cajoled into accepting the position because they are not driven by naked ambition, they are not over confident, they will not see dissent as...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  26 juil. 2022
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My Story
 A good story gets you an interview, expanding convincingly on that story gets you the post.  I didn’t always want to be a manager let alone a senior manager. In fact when I started out I...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  25 juil. 2022
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Top Gun and the Maverick Manager
  Thundering rock music,  super sonic jet fighters and a central character who is a rebel with a need for speed, Top Gun gives a lot of bangs for your bucks. But why are senior management...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  21 juil. 2022
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 Diversity - The Phoney Version -looks different but isn’t 
The image is of someone frantically bailing out a leaky boat whilst water continues to pore in through the holes in its hull. There is a lot of effort but it doesn’t  make much difference. This...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  25 juil. 2022
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Learn  how to lose 
It’s Wimbledon so the sports pages have an interview with John McEnroe. He who was as famous for his on court tantrums as his skills with a racket. He was a serial winner who said he had to...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  11 juil. 2022
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What’s the difference between a football agent and an executive head hunter?
It’s called tapping up in the game an attempt to persuade a player contracted to one team to join another with out first seek the permission of their current employer (Who would of course not...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  10 juil. 2022
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Would you pass the Cultural Competence Test ? 
If your organisation has or aspires to a diverse workforce your managers should be able to demonstrate cultural competence yet most managers would feel I’ll prepared to pass a Cultural...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  10 juil. 2022
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Is it such a good idea to make AI more human? 
Is someone working on ensuring AI understands sarcasm?  Being to literal could be a real problem. On the other hand who wants a sarcastic robot!   
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  04 juil. 2022
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Interviews from Hell 
“It’s 5 p.m. on a Friday. You have been called to an interview for your dream job. In a stunning office thirteen floors above the city below, you are all alone with the man interviewing...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  30 juin 2022
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Despite the evidence 
“ Throwing money at the problem won’t solve it.” Margaret Thatcher.  NASA disproved that theory in putting a man on the moon. “ Spend alone doesn’t explain differences in performance between ...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  25 juin 2022
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Just a job, away of putting food on the table and paying the rent/bills 
The pandemic has caused significant numbers of employees to question whether they want to change jobs and do something different. The return to work has reveal previously unrecognised or...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  24 juin 2022
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Drugs and Driving 
He doesn’t remember anything about the accident. If it was an accident. The boy who was due to go to Oxford but who now struggled to writ his name. His best friend said he was up set. His girl...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  18 juin 2022
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Do we need a Superhero? 
Why this obsession with superheroes are ordinary heroes no longer up to the job?  Well what chance us mere managers.  How many superheroes can you list? It used to be that there was ...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  13 juin 2022
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Making your mind up 
If you want to change someone’s mind ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers and share your own story. But be warned the person describing how to do this considers it to be so...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  11 juin 2022
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 When managers lose it big time. 
May be you were just the unlucky person who picked up the phone but the manager on the other end is angry, very angry with HR. Perhaps something has gone wrong in the recruitment process, maybe...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  09 juin 2022
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Exceptionalism
The idea that this new thing won’t work here because our circumstances, population profile, unique history, political make up, levels of deprivation, industrial past, prevailing culture, are so...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  31 mai 2022
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Leadership like a submarine 
Rarely seen, silent on most issues, assumed to be getting on with it, ignoring what’s going on around them, isolated from the rest of the world/organisation. But requiring us to trust them. Not...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  28 mai 2022
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So how do your managers treat the cleaners when no one is looking?
A lack of respect and poor treatment. Totally Ignored as if invisible. Subjected to derogatory sexual comments. Sworn at. Treated with contempt. Expected to clean up vomit and spilt wine...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  27 mai 2022
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In charge but not in control 
Who is in charge is a question that comes up a lot at work in all types of organisations. At one stage in my management career I was responsible for 83 Nursing and Residential  care Homes....
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  26 mai 2022
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The best career advice I have been given
It’s interesting to hear what those at the top of organisations say about the best career advice they were given. Although on reading some of that advice I think if the individual followed it...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  25 mai 2022
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Why we use metaphors and when we shouldn’t. 
Metaphors are used to capture attention and explain complex things by comparing them to something familiar to the audience.  The business metaphors chosen often have nothing new to say and are...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  19 mai 2022
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Swimming in rough seas
  It’s about working in a difficult environment, finding strong forces working against you and having to use up a lot of energy to make slow progress.  This can happen in any organisation at any...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  17 mai 2022
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Can robots have a sense of humour? And would we find it funny?
In Catch 22 wounded officers in hospital are given enlisted men’s letters to redact of any sensitive military detail. Some of the letters are to girl friends back home and are very sexually...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  09 mai 2022
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Gogglebox
People watching other people watch television! Celebrity Gogglebox. People watching celebrities watching television. I read the,”inspiration “ for Gogglebox came from the innovative comedy,The ...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  09 mai 2022
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The state of things and status of Queuing 
Queuing is never far from the headlines these days but usually it’s about the waiting lists for NHS operations, the length of waiting times in A&E or the queuing of ambulances outside...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  06 mai 2022
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It’s Shangri-la and you are the legend at its centre 
“ Where everyone of us has the chance to make a mark and shape the future. Where senior managers are a catalyst for this change. Energising the people who can make it happen. At the...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  07 juin 2022
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Snooze and you lose
Those who need five hours or less sleep a night are more successful than those who need eight hours or more. Less sleep gives you more time to do things and  being more productive makes you...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  09 mai 2022
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Prove you are not a robot 
It says much about modern society that a computer requires me to prove I am not a computer to progress with an interaction! If computers need help to distinguish between humans and...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  17 mai 2022
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Spread it thinly 
It was a debate between the merits of butter v margarine in terms of a healthy diet. The dairy farmer argued butter was a totally natural product so had to be better for you. His counterpart argued...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  02 janv. 2023
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Is the juice worth the squeeze?
Post pandemic and the Great Resignation people are even more likely to turn down the opportunity of a management/senior management post because of inadequate resources , unrealistic targets...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  15 avr. 2022
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Heard but quickly forgotten 
To those who don’t want feedback. To those who avoid training. To those who say I have been doing the job for years there’s nothing you could tell me I don’t already know. To those who claim...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  12 avr. 2022
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What’s the difference? 
 The difference between an NHS manager and a LA/ SSD manager is significant when considering the integration of health and social care and I believe has been under explored when considering...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  27 mai 2022
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The Macbeths as CEO and Head of HR 
In some organisations HR doesn’t have a seat at the top table. In many organisation HR don’t feel they have the status or influence their expertise and contribution warrants. But this isn’t...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  03 avr. 2022
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How to reduce complaints-don’t record them
A complaint is only a complaint if it is a formal complaint and is only a formal complaint if the word, “ formal”  is used other wise it is not recorded as a complaint because it has been dealt...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  28 mars 2022
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Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas 
The latest example of bullish Senior management thinking is from the Chief Executive of P&O who in a Commons hearing said there was no point in consulting  because ,  “ no Union could...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  25 mars 2022
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“ So long and thanks for all the fish.” 
The dolphins kept it simple when they left the planet just as it was about to be destroyed to make way for a space super highway. (Hitchhikers’ Guid to the Galaxy).  Keep it simple is good...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  23 mars 2022
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Fear,  Favour , Fortune 
It’s the 50 th anniversary of The Godfather probable the most famous and many would say the best film about the mafia. Films and t.v. series set in the world of organised crime are often...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  21 mars 2022
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Every one knows what bullying is and that it’s wrong or do they?
Shouting ,swearing, ridiculing and “losing  it big time” not as a one off or isolated experience but as a daily occurrence, a regular feature of the way the manager behaves would be...
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Par: 
Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  15 mars 2022
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Professionalism 
What shocked me was not that he threw up all over her Jimmy Choo’s but that as a professional footballer on a night out he had drunk so much as to be uncontrollably sick! ...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  05 mars 2022
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Middle managers are part of the solution and part of the problem
  When it comes to getting the message across and driving lasting change  are middle managers the problem ? Is the solution to bypass them and appeal directly to their staff?    I found my...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  05 mars 2022
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 “ won’t make a difference”
My initial response to the white paper on integration was a flash back to being a young inexperienced trainee social worker. I was sitting in juvenile court as the magistrates told my young...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  04 mars 2022
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Preparation for prospective remedy 1 April 2022
In this first blog I talk about prospective pension remedy and what stakeholders in the Police Pension Scheme need to know.   It should be common knowledge by now that with effect from 1 April ...
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Clair Alcock
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Dernière mise à jour:  04 mars 2022
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Better to fall on your own sword 
The origins of the expression come from Ancient Rome where a disgraced soldier was expected to commit suicide by stabbing themselves in the stomach , literally falling on their  sword. Today ...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  01 mars 2022
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A few bad apples 
You don’t want management that is distant and detached but neither do you want management that is so tight with their staff they can’t see the faults and so are dismissive of criticisms and...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  01 mars 2022
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Why do organisations appoint the wrong people? 
There are many reasons why the wrong people get promoted but its not a new thing. Disgruntled employees used to say ,”It’s not what you know but who you know “ to get on in this organisation....
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  26 févr. 2022
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