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Lead Exposure in Children Surveillance System (LEICSS) annual report, 2024
Executive summary LEICSS is a national surveillance system coordinated by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). The surveillance system notifies the Health Protection Teams (HPTs) of...
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Obiageli Onyekpe
Last updated:  18 Dec 2024
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Napoleon asked only one thing of his generals that they be lucky. 
The toss of the coin. The bounce of the ball. The broader line decision. The Luck of the draw. In sport luck can make the difference between winning and losing so it no surprise that those who play...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  13 Dec 2024
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Management Yoga for absolute beginners 
Management Yoga is not about extreme flexibility or contorting your self or your team into fancy shapes. It's about, finding inner strength and creating freedom of action within the team.  It...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  09 Dec 2024
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The Water Carrier
Every team needs at least one. Someone who is prepared to do the unglamorous work. To do the boring ,tedious , monotonous ,routine stuff that has to be done. Someone who keeps things moving by...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  09 Dec 2024
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Managers who don’t want to manage
Some managers don’t want to be managers they find themselves in this position as a natural career progression from being a well regarded professional. But being a good teacher, social worker,...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  05 Dec 2024
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Passion on and off the field 
I read an interview with a former premiership footballer in which he said he hadn’t fallen out of love with the game as some pundits had suggested, he had never been in love with it. In fact he...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  18 Nov 2024
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What is the Historic Environment Skills Forum?
The Historic Environment Skills Forum was launched in November 2022 in direct response to Action 1.1 of the Heritage Sector Resilience Plan. The purpose of the  Skills Forum  is to...
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Phil Pollard
Last updated:  09 Sept 2025
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We eventually stuck our fingers in our ears
After being verbally whipped and routinely screamed at we eventually stuck our finger in our ears. The manager had no filter,  blunt to the point of rudeness. Interested only in results, no...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  13 Nov 2024
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How do they do that?
I bought a children’s box of magic tricks to entertain my five year old grandson. I learnt a couple of tricks and put on a show. He was impressed but did not give me the credit because he though it...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  13 Nov 2024
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Exploring the use of Earth Observations data for public health risks.
Temperature is an important modulator for several public health indicators as it interacts directly and indirectly with many determinants of health, such as impacts on pathogens or vectors. For...
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Obiageli Onyekpe
Last updated:  04 Nov 2024
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Trust me I’m a senior manager 
The reality is most  senior managers don’t deserve the trust of employees. I need to qualify this statement by stating the obvious which is organisations are not run for the benefit of their...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  06 Dec 2024
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Why do so many of us hate work? (And how we can change that)
Is it the feeling that we are poorly paid , badly managed and under resourced or is it we resent work that has little value or meaning?  I never hated work, except those 4 weeks in the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  04 Nov 2024
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The pressure to look busy as opposed to being busy 
Fauxductivity is not about lazy or skiving workers . Fauxductivity is term HR professions have coined to describe the problem of wide spread behaviour in which employees feel the pressure to always...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  28 Oct 2024
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When things change but don’t really change but still up set people.
“Depending on your age and resistance to change ,it potentially never went away, but 34 years after the shock Snickers rebrand the Marathon bar is making a comeback. “ Zoe Wood 21/9/24 So why did...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  25 Oct 2024
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Gen Z and the return of the tie 
Ties are having a moment. In fact the dark suit, white shirt and tie is now, “ edgy office-wear” made popular outside the office by the likes of Taylor Swift. You need more evidence. Have you seen...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  22 Oct 2024
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The inalienable right of managers to recruit to their posts
You inherit a team. You try to get the best out of them. But there is no getting away from the fact that it’s exciting and empowering when you get a chance to fill a vacancy. So why would HR try...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  21 Oct 2024
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Looking for a job in London
I was a Gazetteer Management Services Officer at Mid Devon District Officer. I worked with addressing data or maintaining a Gazetteer database and worked on the Local Land and Gazetteer database in...
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Peony Tse
Last updated:  21 Oct 2024
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How to say “no” and when to say yes  (At work)
“At 70 years old if I could give my younger self one piece of advice ,it would be to use the words “ fuck off “much more frequently” Helen Mirren. I wouldn’t recommend telling your boss to F Off...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  04 Oct 2024
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The last human job? 
Your agony aunt isn’t real,  her replies to your emotional and relationship problems are composed by using Artificial Intelligence. Does this invalidate her advice?  The issue is not...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  03 Oct 2024
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The Wasted Years 
These were the lost years when nothing much happened and it looked like nothing much would. But it’s never too late to make up for lost time.  Do you have wasted career years? I period of...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  01 Oct 2024
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