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Firing is almost as important as Hiring

When we say firing we are not taking sacking people for gross misconduct or incompetence. We are talking about the process of moving people on who no longer have a future in the organisation. This...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 30 oct. 2025

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How do we determine "priority" skills needs?

One of the questions I often get asked is "what is the biggest skills need"? Its always a difficult question, because there is no single answer, and also its going to be subjective depending...

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Phil Pollard

Dernière mise à jour: 29 oct. 2025

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Historic Environment Skills Forum; Blogue

Commissioning Networks

Hi! My name's Ruth and I'm a Senior Commissoning Manager in Peterborough City Council. Since 2020 I have run informal commissioning networks, started with Homecare, then evolved an...

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Ruth Miller

Dernière mise à jour: 23 oct. 2025

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Better or Worse

You have worn glasses for years and over time your eyesight changes. The biannual visit to the optician measures how much change. As you study the eye chart the optician replaces one lens with...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 23 oct. 2025

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Between the banality and the alchemy

A Chief Executive sets the tone for an organisation. This can have an unintended negative effect on the organisations culture if the way they go about the mundane aspects of the...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 23 oct. 2025

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HESCAPE One Year On

By Phil Pollard, Heritage Career Pathways Manager, Historic England Chair, Historic Environment Skills Forum It’s been just over a year since we launched HESCAPE—the Historic...

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Phil Pollard

Dernière mise à jour: 12 nov. 2025

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Historic Environment Skills Forum; Blogue

The space ship was called The Dark Star

The ships computer notices during an electrical storm the bomb bay doors have opend and the nuclear bomb count down program activated by its on board AI. We then hear...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 20 oct. 2025

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A Cheerleader Leader

Perhaps it’s because referring to a cheerleader brings to mind a picture of attractive young women chanting slogans and performing acrobatic dance routines at an American football match that...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 18 oct. 2025

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It wasn’t Alex Ferguson’s hair dryer but…. his commitment to continuous improvement and reinvention that made United champions.

The trouble with being an innovator is eventually the rest of the world catches up with you.Ideas and ways of doing things once so radical, so unconventional as to be...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 16 oct. 2025

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Air Pollution in the UK 2024

'Air Pollution in the UK 2024' was published on 30 September 2025. The latest in a series of annual reports first published in 2003, this year's report summarises the results of the UK’s...

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Andrew Taylor

Dernière mise à jour: 15 oct. 2025

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Scotland’s Air Quality Engagement Network; Blogue

Pizza and samosas

It started in inner city Birmingham a long time ago. Unlike where I grew up Birmingham is and was a very multicultural , multi faith city. However you could live and work in the city...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 13 oct. 2025

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Is Jason Lamb a good manager

Does it matter how you look and dress for work? Does an untidy office and desk indicate a disorganised and chaotic mind ? Do dirty cups and overflowing wast bins say lazy and slapdash? Does a...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 09 oct. 2025

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Motivations for KA Commercialisation

The KAN Autumn Forum 2025 brought together Knowledge Assets Network members in London. The focus in the morning was on motivations for commercialising KAs. The event included a keynote...

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Namit Bi

Dernière mise à jour: 09 oct. 2025

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The Knowledge Assets Community; Blogue

Most dangerous jobs -not always the ones you think

When you think of the most dangerous jobs you probably think of fire fighters, deep sea divers, miners and lumberjacks but probably not the people who deliver your weekly groceries. ...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 07 oct. 2025

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Contract Management Lunchables: Every day at midday October 13 - 24

13th October - 24th October Every day at midday Monday - Friday Please follow Contract management Lunchables - bite size knowledge sessions - Local Partnerships

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Poppy Gibson

Dernière mise à jour: 30 sept. 2025

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Well done

Perks are nice , a good salary is taken as read , concern for health and well-being is on trend but people who work for managers who say “well done”are the most content and motivated. You...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 30 sept. 2025

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Who in your team will go into management?

Goalkeepers should make good managers, goal scores are too selfish and one dimensional , midfield generals already think they are the manager ,defenders often end up as managers. The...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 30 sept. 2025

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Systems Thinking and Missions

You may remember an earlier discussion of how systems thinking and missions were inherently aligned. The Systems Thinking Working Group (a group of academics, practitioners and STIG members) has...

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Mary McKee

Dernière mise à jour: 29 sept. 2025

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Systems Thinking Interest Group (STIG); Blogue

Procuring systems thinking training

If you have been looking for short specific systems thinking training, then you may have found that you can't access this through our existing Learning Frameworks. We have worked with Government...

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Mary McKee

Dernière mise à jour: 29 sept. 2025

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Systems Thinking Interest Group (STIG); Blogue

How does the political make up of the council make a difference to the relationship between officers and members?

The balance of power can be very different from one LA to another and can of course change suddenly or almost never. The most common situations are, the party in power has a large majority, there...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 29 sept. 2025

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Ben and Jerry

“Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you value.” Joe Biden Former US President Everyone likes ice cream. So what better product for a couple of hippies...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 23 sept. 2025

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Why statistic and performance awards may be misleading

In my youth I played Sunday league football. In our league there was one team everyone beat. After each game the players identified the man of the match from the opposition. In the team that got...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 22 sept. 2025

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50 years of Faulty Towers

It’s 50 years since the first episode of Faulty Towers was aired on the BBC . Since then we have developed Artificial intelligence (AI) but our love hate relationship with machines hasn’t...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 20 sept. 2025

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Trust,Loyalty and Respect

You’re not at your computer where are you? The use of Bosswear technology to check up on employees is just the latest example of trust or lack of it between managers and employees. So...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 17 sept. 2025

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Regional Heritage Skills Networks

The Situation The heritage sector needs a coordinated, sustainable approach to heritage skills development, with regional networks playing a central role. Collaboration, evidence-based planning,...

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Phil Pollard

Dernière mise à jour: 17 sept. 2025

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Historic Environment Skills Forum; Blogue

Cocktails on the company credit card

I know of an organisation that when it wished to get rid of a manager always looked at their past expenses claims. When the boss took the team out for after work drinks it was...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 10 sept. 2025

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AQ Seminar Series

Over the last two weeks we have hosted a series of three lunchtime seminars on the development of the next air quality framework. The first seminar, presented by Tanith Allinson from the...

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Louise Alexander

Dernière mise à jour: 10 sept. 2025

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Scotland’s Air Quality Engagement Network; Blogue

Standing in the way of progress

Reminds me of the parents who sort careers advice for their son concerned about his ambition to be a racing driver. The response, “Don’t stand in his way”. Silly joke but isn’t this what we are all...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 10 sept. 2025

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The Big HR rule book

The big HR rule book-it turns out it doesn’t exist. I know but it’s easier if you think it does exist and we hold a copy other wise you would do a lot more crazy things Policies...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 06 sept. 2025

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The second most sexy profession

I misread the head line it was in fact HR the second most sexist profession. Which explains why the article referred to the high percentage of women interviewed who reported being spoken over by...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 02 sept. 2025

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Enter the Negotiator

A bank robbery goes wrong. The bank robbers hold customers and employees hostage their demands are unclear but the lives of hostages are threatened. The SWAT team want to storm the building in a...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 02 sept. 2025

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Happiness at work isn’t about perks

Are you happy working here? Would you be happier if you had a pay rise? Or could we give you a more important sounding job title ? What about a reserved parking space, free gym membership, an...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 14 oct. 2025

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Supporting Local Business Through Education: The Role of Trading Standards

Having just come out of a week-long trial in the Crown Court, I have been wondering how the public perceive Trading Standards. As I sat in Court, listening intently to the Barristers...

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Emma Honey

Dernière mise à jour: 10 sept. 2025

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East of England Trading Standards - Trainee/Apprentice Network; Blogue

Summer of SuDS

Dear ASA members, Hopefully you've all enjoyed the summer sun and have managed to squeeze in at least a little leave. We at the ASA exec have had a busy time of it and so we just...

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Glen Westmore

Dernière mise à jour: 28 août 2025

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Association of SuDS Authorities; Blogue

Carrying a grudge

I am constantly surprised at the number of successful leaders who carry a grudge against a former colleague or associate that they clearly intend to carry to their grave. Some slight or...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 26 août 2025

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It a bit like the story of the tortoise and the hare.

The speed at which someone adapts, acquires skills, and integrates feedback is important to organisations required to adapt quickly in today’s fast paced business environment. So organisation...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 22 août 2025

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Money is a tool .People are a resource.

Organisations are neither machines nor organisms, but considering them as sometimes machine-like or sometimes organism-like can be useful in managing the change agenda. ...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 22 août 2025

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Company and Industry News Alert Service

Hi All, I wanted to reach out and ask if any departments have a News Alert Service in place to monitor Suppliers/Markets to send real-time push notifications out via text/e-mail or if you use...

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Ryan Martin

Dernière mise à jour: 21 août 2025

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Leadership failures and business education

Is it that business education is failing to equip leaders with the right skills or is it that so many leaders neglect their own professional development once they become a Chief Executive...

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Blair McPherson

Dernière mise à jour: 20 août 2025

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A goodbye from your KAN Chair

I’ve been heading up the Communities team in GOTT for over two years now – and what a time it’s been! However, a new challenge awaits me as I move on to a new role at the MHRA. It’s been an...

Par:
Terry Louise Jones

Dernière mise à jour: 20 août 2025

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