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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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Blair McPherson
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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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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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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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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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04 juil. 2022
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Exempt planning fee
Hi, I have a dispute with my local authority regarding free go fee. I submitted a planning application for 3 dwellings which was refused and I have now submitted a new application with additional...
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Richard Davey
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30 juin 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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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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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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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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18 juin 2022
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University of Winchester Physio Programme
University of Winchester Physiotherapy Revalidation Stakeholder Event The Physiotherapy Programme will be revalidating during 2023 and as part of this process we will be holding a...
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17 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A hard look at soft skills
There is nothing “ soft” about a police interrogation in Line of Duty. It’s intense and systematic . There is no shouting, verbal abuse or threats of violence. The aim is to get the...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:
15 mars 2022
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How to survive in a ruthless organisation
A successful financial planner finds that his business partner has been doing the books for a Mexican drug cartel. What’s more he has been skimming off the top to fund an extravagant...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:
22 févr. 2022
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The Borg don’t do Diversity
In Star Trek when the Enterprise first encounters the Borg they announce themselves with the now infamous phrase “ We are the Borg, resistance is futile , you will be assimilated.” Is ...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:
18 févr. 2022
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Another reorganisation, another major change initiative
Those made redundant , relocated or required to apply for their own job have long suspected that leaders of organisations are often guilty of change for change sake. The new chief executive...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:
15 févr. 2022
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Near Miss Campaign – What’s it all about?
Jacqui McPeake of Jacs Ltd and Caroline Benjamin of Food Allergy Aware have collaborated as Hospitality Allergen Support UK to highlight Near Miss Reporting as a potential RISK for a more...
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Caroline Benjamin
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Dernière mise à jour:
11 févr. 2022
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Lack of career obstacles for the incompetent and over confident.
The best way to smash the glass ceiling, the most effective way of getting a diverse senior management team and how to ensure managers have good people skills. Organisations...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:
09 févr. 2022
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