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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
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Last updated:  14 Apr 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
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Last updated:  25 Feb 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
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Last updated:  16 Feb 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
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Last updated:  16 Feb 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
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Last updated:  29 Jan 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
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Last updated:  29 Jan 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
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Last updated:  10 May 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
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Last updated:  08 Jan 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
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Last updated:  26 Dec 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
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Last updated:  21 Dec 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
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Last updated:  14 Dec 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
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Last updated:  07 Dec 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
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Last updated:  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
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Last updated:  27 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
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Last updated:  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
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Last updated:  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
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Last updated:  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
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Last updated:  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
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Last updated:  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
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Last updated:  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
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Last updated:  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
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Last updated:  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
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Last updated:  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
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Last updated:  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
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Last updated:  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
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Last updated:  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
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Last updated:  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
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Last updated:  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
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Last updated:  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
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Last updated:  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
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Last updated:  25 Aug 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
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Last updated:  20 Aug 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
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Last updated:  18 Aug 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
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Last updated:  14 Aug 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
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Last updated:  14 Aug 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
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Last updated:  13 Aug 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
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Last updated:  13 Aug 2020
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Don’t Oversimplify 
     
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  15 Aug 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
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Last updated:  08 Aug 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
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Last updated:  24 Jul 2020
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