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Search listings: 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
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Last updated: 30 Oct 2025

0; 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
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Last updated: 29 Oct 2025

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Historic Environment Skills Forum; 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
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Last updated: 23 Oct 2025

0; 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
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Last updated: 23 Oct 2025

1; 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
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Last updated: 23 Oct 2025

0; 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
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Last updated: 12 Nov 2025

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Historic Environment Skills Forum; 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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By:
Blair McPherson
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Last updated: 20 Oct 2025

0; 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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By:
Blair McPherson
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Last updated: 18 Oct 2025

0; 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
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Last updated: 16 Oct 2025

0; 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
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Last updated: 15 Oct 2025

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Scotland’s Air Quality Engagement Network; 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
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Last updated: 13 Oct 2025

0; 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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By:
Blair McPherson
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Last updated: 09 Oct 2025

0; 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
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Last updated: 09 Oct 2025

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The Knowledge Assets Community; 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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By:
Blair McPherson
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Last updated: 07 Oct 2025

0; 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
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Last updated: 30 Sept 2025

1; 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
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Last updated: 30 Sept 2025

0; 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
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Last updated: 30 Sept 2025

0; 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
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Last updated: 29 Sept 2025

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Systems Thinking Interest Group (STIG); 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
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Last updated: 29 Sept 2025

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Systems Thinking Interest Group (STIG); 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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By:
Blair McPherson
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Last updated: 29 Sept 2025

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