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So you think you are good at recruitment
You know the argument about whether drivers should have to retake their driving test at regular intervals well the same reasoning applies to recruitment interviews. The roads have got a lot...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
23 juin 2021
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The unfairness at the heart of the recruitment process.
There is an unfairness at the heart of the recruitment process which rewards those who are good at interviews above those who are good at the job. The surprise is not that the traditional...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
23 juin 2021
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Further opportunities to join the Centre of Expertise for Counter Fraud
Who we are The Fraud, Error Debt and Grants (FEDG) Group is a growing group of experts based in the Cabinet Office. It consists of the central hubs for three Government Functions: Counter...
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Chris Freeman
Dernière mise à jour:
15 juin 2021
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How to make sure your online group gets off to a flying start
A successful online group doesn’t just spring up out of nowhere. These active online groups are the result of a carefully thought out and tested process. What are those processes that can help...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Dernière mise à jour:
07 juin 2021
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360 degree feedback
“ Don’t ask what I think of you I might not give the answer you want me to. “ Oh Well- Fleetwood Mac.
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
09 juin 2021
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On Boarding getting employees on board and keeping them on board
On Boarding is management jargon for getting new employees familiar with the way we do things round here. It’s not just about the routines, tasks and knowledge it’s learning about the...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
03 juin 2021
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Vacancy - Specialist Stop Smoking Advisor Post
Description Specialist Stop Smoking Advisor Management Grouping: Adult Social Care & Health Team: Public Health Team ...
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Emma Barry
Dernière mise à jour:
02 juin 2021
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The chaos theory of leadership
Do you assume the motivation behind the ambitious manager is the desire to make a difference or the craving for power , status and rewards that go with it? Maybe it’s always a mixture of both...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
01 juin 2021
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It’s editing Jim but not as we know it.
I wrote - Captain Kirk of the starship Enterprise is 90 or the original actor to play him is. But that’s not what appeared in print. ...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
28 mai 2021
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Your chance to join the Centre of Expertise for Counter Fraud
Who we are The Fraud, Error Debt and Grants (FEDG) Group is a growing group of experts based in the Cabinet Office. It consists of the central hubs for three Government Functions: Counter...
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Chris Freeman
Dernière mise à jour:
28 mai 2021
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Funny names list
It started harmlessly enough just a casual observation to a colleague about some clients names that got turned into a list, circulated and added to. The list was titled Funny Names. As the...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
21 mai 2021
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Unconscious Bias the Baby and the Bath Water
I met up with a former colleague last week who keeps in touch with their ex team members on social media and was beginning to regret it. A picture of a child’s soft doll with bright clothes,...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
13 mai 2021
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Light my fire
Her name was Heather and she was a swim wear model. She wasn’t the most obvious choice for a conference speaker. She stood at the front of the stage and spoke to an audience of about a thousand...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
13 mai 2021
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Doing as little as necessary and Just enough is never enough.
Doing as little as necessary sounds like a skivers charter. Where as Just enough is never enough could be the motto of a demanding manager. The first is about a radically different way of ...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
06 mai 2021
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Relaxed and informal should not led to overfamiliar and discourteous.
It was Saturday night in my favourite curry house and who should come in but a small group of people including a well know comedian from the t.v. This is a very low key establishment in the...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
04 mai 2021
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5 ways you can make your online group buzz with activity
Running an active online group isn’t easy. The natural tendency for online groups is to start strong when everyone is new and excited, but they can dwindle over time as members and facilitators...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Dernière mise à jour:
30 avr. 2021
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“I’d tell you if you were doing something wrong”
All to often the first time the boss says how much they value your contribution and appreciate your commitment is at your leaving do! This seems consistent with a resent survey which found 80%...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
25 avr. 2021
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What is it?
Jimmy Hendrix was a master of it, not so most managers. Employees want it, although not everyone enjoys it. There is a skill to giving it, get it right and both the individual and the...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
22 avr. 2021
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The Good Fight, the N word and HR
Over the Easter weekend I watched the latest episode of The Good Fight on Netflix. It’s a US t.v. series set in a law firm. What’s different about it is its topical ,political ( US politics...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
14 avr. 2021
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It always worked in the past
The ancient Chinese believed eclipses of the Sun were the result of a dragon attempting to eat it. To prevent this from happening everyone went out into the street and banged pots and pans to...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
14 avr. 2021
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Organisations in Denial
Some leaders think it is a perfectly normal state of affairs in these challenging times for managers to be cynical and staff disillusioned. Some leaders claim staff always moan about their...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
05 avr. 2021
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How to keep members’ attention during your online presentation
Remember those days where you could stare into the audience to see if what you are saying was making an impact or even stare at a few people to see if they are paying attention. Maybe that last...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Dernière mise à jour:
29 mars 2021
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Are day visits to private caravans on restricted premises permitted in England under the 'Steps' regs before Step 2?
Can anyone confirm if a caravan owner or owner of a second home is able to day visit their property/ caravan to carry out cleaning or other maintenance in preparation for occupation at Step 2...
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Jan Bostock
Dernière mise à jour:
29 mars 2021
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Promoted Content: Becoming Agile: An international festival of learning
The Henley Forum Annual Conference 2021 - Becoming Agile: An international festival of learning Conference dates: 26-29 April 2021 Fringe sessions: 21 April & 5 May 2021 It's been a...
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KHUB Focus
Dernière mise à jour:
25 mars 2021
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Lead Exposure in Children in England
Hello all and welcome to the Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Community of Practice (CoP) on Knowledge Hub. The work shown in this CoP is managed by the Environmental Epidemiology...
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Neelam Iqbal
Dernière mise à jour:
08 avr. 2021
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Sponsored content: MicroDrainage Customer Support Specialist
The ideal candidate would have worked as a MicroDrainage user either as a designer for a consultant civil engineer, house builder or similar, or as an auditor for a local authority. All support...
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KHUB Focus
Dernière mise à jour:
22 mars 2021
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Changing your mind
The willingness to change your mind is a good quality in a leader as long as they don’t do it too often. Change it too often and you’re a nightmare to work for, never change it and you’re a...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
15 mars 2021
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This is not America
This is not America. I am not an American. I am not anti Americans just their business/management culture. The business schools, the MBA courses, the case studies and the language, the ...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
08 mars 2021
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The Environmental Public Health Surveillance System (EPHSS)
Hello all and welcome to the Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Community of Practice (CoP) on Knowledge Hub. The work shown in this CoP is managed by the Environmental Epidemiology...
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Neelam Iqbal
Dernière mise à jour:
25 févr. 2021
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Some of the least effective managers are also the busiest
Either because they don’t delegate appropriately or find it too difficult to prioritise but mostly because they attend the wrong meetings. They attend meeting based on whose chairing rather...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
14 avr. 2021
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How to keep your group engaged with a virtual event
COVID-19 has made a dramatic impact on conferences and in-person events being cancelled to protect people and "flatten the curve" of this virus, which is the right thing to do. As we...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Dernière mise à jour:
25 févr. 2021
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ZAP! WHACK! BIFF! BAM! BOFF!
The new Batman will be black DC comics has revealed. Can he do for your organisation what he is going to do for Gotham City? Or will it be Wonder Woman who returns to save the day? Does...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
16 févr. 2021
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A CDO chat with Kit Collingwood
As part of an occasional series, here’s a video of a conversation I had today with Kit Collingwood, Deputy Director for Digital and Customer Services at the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Kit...
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Dave Briggs
Dernière mise à jour:
16 févr. 2021
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Bridgerton
It’s trending. It’s on t.v. It’s about the life’s and loves of the aristocracy in Regency England. So what’s it got to do with diversity and inclusion in your organisation? Bridgerton a...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
29 janv. 2021
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Welcome to EPHT
Hello all and welcome to the Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Community of Practice (CoP) on Knowledge Hub. The work shown in this CoP is managed by the Environmental...
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Neelam Iqbal
Dernière mise à jour:
29 janv. 2021
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This is muscular management
The macho leadership style, the emphasis on competition rather than cooperation, the focus on cost/efficiency, the obsession with numbers (measurement and data ) the belief that the end...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
10 mai 2022
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Digging Managers out of holes
Wisdom is the greatest quality a manager can have. The trouble is it is not easily or quickly gained. It comes over time from experience. For the inexperienced manager help is on offer...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
08 janv. 2021
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Big Jack on Management
I have been watching a film about Jack Charlton who died in 2020. The film focused on Jack Charlton the manager. For a decade he inspired a modest out fit to consistently over perform. Former...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
26 déc. 2020
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It’s no exaggeration to call this torture
It’s harder than most people would imagine to sack staff who have abused residents. Hard to uncover the abuse and harder to put together a strong enough case to get a dismissal. The...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
21 déc. 2020
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Big Boy Pants
In the USA they call trousers “pants”. In our family big boy pants refers to the underwear that my 3 year old grand son wears as part of his toilet training. Just another example of the ...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
14 déc. 2020
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What aren’t they telling us?
Who killed JFK, did the Americans really land on the Moon, what is the government covering up about Area 13, and what aren’t the board telling us? As with all conspiracy theories the idea that...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
07 déc. 2020
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Sponsored content: Data Protection eLearning for Schools
The GORSE Academies Trust has…and they’re liking it. The Strategic Lead Officer for the Trust, commented, ‘Leeds City Council’s training is striking the right balance for his staff between...
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KHUB Focus
Dernière mise à jour:
02 déc. 2020
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The Chateau
If local government were a building it would be a crumbling stately home , still grand but decrepit now in parts, it’s gardens over grown and floor boards warped. Makes you wonder does it...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
29 nov. 2020
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If you find yourself in a hole-call it a swimming pool
My dad dug a big whole whilst levelling the back garden and decided he would call it a swimming pool. The new build house had a steeply slopping back garden. Never one to pay someone...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
27 nov. 2020
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LG Inform Week
LG Inform is the LGA’s free data service presenting local authorities with up-to-date published data about local areas. Containing 7,500 data items, and growing, LG Inform helps you review...
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Esther Barrott
Dernière mise à jour:
23 nov. 2020
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How to stop your virtual meetings from being so boring
We have all gone through this phase during the first lockdown about how great it was to have our meetings virtually. But as time has progressed, there seem to be virtual meetings for...
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Michael Norton
Dernière mise à jour:
19 nov. 2020
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The thrill of the tight rope
I was once carpeted by my boss for a piece I had written in a local journal published by and on behalf of the voluntary and not for profit sector. The leader had had a word with him....
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
18 nov. 2020
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Don’t be a bad loser( like Donald Trump)
"Show me a good loser and I'll show your a loser." So said Graeme Souness. Jose Mourinho muttered about high level conspiracies, Alex Ferguson like to motivate his team by...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
13 nov. 2020
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Every senior manager has a fantasy
Every senior manager has a leadership fantasy but they’re to embarrassed to tell you. They do however give clues. ...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
05 nov. 2020
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The average 3 year old is getting smarter
Many parents and every grand parent thinks their child is very bright for their age. This has always been the case but now there is evidence to support the claim. It appears the average 3...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
28 oct. 2020
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Trust , Unity and Progress
They sound like a communist party slogan from the soviet era. Something like, Trust in the party and the United workers will achieve great Progress. They are in fact the easy to remember...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
24 oct. 2020
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Who do you trust more your Dr or your MP ?
That is a simplified version of the government’s attempt to take back power from doctors. It has parallels with local government. How do you get the balance right between the professionals, the...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
15 oct. 2020
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All or Nothing
Reading the biography of a very successful leader is often disappointing if you are seeking to learn how to replicate their success. Interviews with those who worked closely with such...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
02 oct. 2020
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Your team doesn’t need you when they’re winning
You earn your money as a manager when the team are going through a difficult patch. When performance dips, when morale is rock bottom and confidence low that’s when your experience and know how...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
01 oct. 2020
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A Hard Rain
When Bob Dylan wanted to warn people of the increased risk of a nuclear war he wrote a song , A hard rains a -gonna fall, which tells of the destruction from the fallout of The Bomb. When the...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
29 sept. 2020
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Showing you’re annoyed is not the same as making staff scared of you
Alex Ferguson claims he used his notorious hairdryer treatment no more than 6 or 7 times in his long and successful career. The accounts of former players would indicate it was a lot more but...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
22 sept. 2020
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The Understanding Manager
Everyone wants a supportive manager some one who recognises your value to the team and acknowledges your skill and work ethic, some one who is sympathetic when some difficulty in your personal...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
14 sept. 2020
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Simply the Best
If you ask a highly successful manager, a great leader what it is that makes them so effective don’t expect to get the answer that those who work with them would give. Even the best often lack...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
11 sept. 2020
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Vanity Projects
A project that is not justified by cost and effort and whose purpose is to make the instigator look good. The most famous was the USA race with the Soviet Union to put a man on the Moon the...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
08 sept. 2020
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The hole in the donut
These managers never seem to focus on the perfect circle. Instead, their first comment calls attention to the inconsequential mistake. They ask for trivial back-up data that you failed to bring...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
02 sept. 2020
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It’s Complicated
He drove the car, a reluctant participant in what was a sectarian assassination. First he finds the librarian he fancy’s is the wife of the man they murdered. Then he takes a job working on her...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
14 sept. 2020
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Ginger Rogers’ Annual Appraisal
Annual appraisals do more harm than good and now it’s ok to say so. Many large companies have dropped Annual Appraisals replacing achievement and reward with support and coaching. One to One...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
25 août 2020
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It’s your dream job but there is a catch
It’s your dream job. You have said so publicly and often, which hasn’t gone down well with previous employers. It’s high profile with a very competitive salary. But it’s only for nine months!...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
20 août 2020
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Boxing Clever
” Everyone has a plan until they are punched in the mouth.” Mike Tyson was not known for his wit and wisdom but his ferocity. His comment was therefore probably just a statement of the...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
18 août 2020
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Statistics don’t tell the whole story
Statistics may never lie, though everyone knows they can be economical with the truth. Everyone being managers and members. LA leaders and chief executives struggle to persuade the local...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
14 août 2020
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Connecting community capabilities – how can an Open Place Directory help in the time of COVID-19?
There are examples across the whole of the UK, and some great tweets and posts about the ways in which councils have worked together with their partners and communities. The New Local...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Dernière mise à jour:
14 août 2020
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The best organisation are like enthusiastic gardeners
If HR are were to adopt a gardening metaphor it would be weeds are just flowers in the wrong place. This is not what a manager who has been asked to consider someone on...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
13 août 2020
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Connecting people to respond to COVID-19
With budget cuts and reduced funding, digital collaboration plays an important role and enables Knowledge Hub members to stay connected, reach a wider audience and support their work. The...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Dernière mise à jour:
13 août 2020
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Don’t Oversimplify
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
15 août 2020
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Managing a budget is too often like dieting
Following on from his successful book “The Food Myth” Tim Spector has written , “ Spoon-Feed: Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food Is Wrong”. On reading it I was struck by the...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
08 août 2020
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Out of touch managers
In the years immediately after England won the World Cup the then manager Alf Ramsey could do no wrong in the eyes of his players but as the winning team was replaced by a new...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
24 juil. 2020
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A personal journey from council officer to supplier, via the MHCLG Local Digital team
In late June and early July 2018, I was racing between London, Cardiff and Birmingham, helping Linda O’Halloran, Egle Uzkaraityte, Adam Thoulass and our colleagues in the embryonic MHCLG Local...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Dernière mise à jour:
24 juil. 2020
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A faint air of menace 2
We need to talk about how we talk about Black Lives Matter (BLM) in the work place because the subject still has a faint air of menace about it. If people are reluctant to talk about diversity...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
22 juil. 2020
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Do you read the instructions?
You might be someone who jumps right in and gets stuck in there and learns by winging it. Or you might be a little more cautious and assess all the bits and pieces first and then get going,...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Dernière mise à jour:
15 juil. 2020
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Alien Encounter
If aliens from a distant and previously unknown planet landed seeking asylum and only to be allowed to integrate into society, HR would have no problem adapting equality and diversity policies...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:
09 juil. 2020
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