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15 reasons why KHub collaboration rocks!
Visit our Digital Network page for more info: Viewing this logged in? You can find the page here. Viewing as a guest? Find out more here. Not a member of Knowledge Hub yet?...
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Knowledge Hub Team
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06 Jun 2018
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The digital digest
If you’re interested in receiving a weekly email with all the best digital transformation content, whether news, opinion or analysis, delivered straight to your inbox, then do sign up for the...
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Dave Briggs
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01 Jun 2018
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A Joker and a Cheerleader
Can a joker be taken seriously? Can a manager be friends with those they manage? Is it unprofessional for a manager to show their emotions in public. Should triumphs and disasters be meet with the...
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Blair McPherson
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28 May 2018
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Small things in big boxes
What is the smallest thing you can get into the biggest box? It’s not a quiz question it’s a challenge! Working in Amazon’s massive packaging warehouse involves boring, repetitive and tedious...
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Blair McPherson
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25 May 2018
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Do Social Workers Make a Difference
Current government recruitment adverts feature a graduate saying “I wanted to make a real difference with my degree teaching allowed me to do this”. Inspiring teachers, devoted nurses,...
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Blair McPherson
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23 May 2018
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Till Death Us Do Part
Frail, eighty three year old man found at the foot of the stairs by daughter. From the angle of the body and the position of the head he has clearly stumbled at the top of the stairs and fallen...
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Blair McPherson
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22 May 2018
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Who will make it in management
It’s difficult to predict who will make a good manager. Past performance in your chosen profession is no guide. Who would have thought that the strident, bolshie young social worker, the bane of...
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Blair McPherson
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19 May 2018
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The Management Delusion
Every baffled new senior manager goes searching for answers in management/leadership books- but what these authors / management gurus really offer is the reassuring fantasy that there is a formula...
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Blair McPherson
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17 May 2018
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6 Steps to Create Amazing Group Messages/Newsletters for your Members
Getting the results you want from your group message doesn’t have to be a huge endeavor. These six steps will give it a bit of a wow factor and save you time. Step 1 - Decide What Type of message...
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Michael Norton
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16 May 2018
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This is how we do things here
Every manager has a philosophy. The best are able to transmit this philosophy so that everyone buys into a particularly way of doing things. When the philosophy delivers no one questions it...
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Blair McPherson
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12 May 2018
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GOST hunting for career prospects
Over half of my career has been spent in Project Delivery, specifically, Project and Programme ‘planning’ and ‘scheduling’ and I've enjoyed it immensely. When you enjoy something you tend...
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Adrian Davis
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11 May 2018
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There are no digital silver bullets
In a fairly complex world, everyone yearns for a simple solution. The one thing they should do to make things better. The single solution to all their problems. Digital transformation is no...
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Dave Briggs
Last updated:
10 May 2018
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So who cares how they do it in the US
Whenever I read management articles about US companies it is clear to me that the way they do things over there is different. Which is a bit of a problem because management gurus and...
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Blair McPherson
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09 May 2018
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“Managers take too much credit when things go well and too much blame when they don’t.“ Brian Clough.
The best place to read about leadership and management is not the business section but the sports pages. If you want to understand about performance, if you want to see how big data can be...
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Blair McPherson
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04 May 2018
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I’d be a foolish manager if I didn’t listen to my team
Things are not going well. Moral is at rock bottom. Performance against a number of key indicators has drawn criticism from all quarters. We are at the wrong end of the league table and our...
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Blair McPherson
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01 May 2018
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How can you improve a side whilst selling your best player
Improving services whilst cutting the budget. It’s seems counterintuitive. It’s the equivalent of improving the team by selling your best players. Generally speaking people including managers see...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:
29 Apr 2018
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Can you help?
Looking for folk to help with communications & influencing and organising the ALERC conference; meeting our members in The North; the NBN Atlas and dealing with commercial use; the value of the...
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Clare Blencowe
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30 Apr 2018
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3 tips to organising your forums when you start a new online group
When I first started work at a district council. There was a corridor with a number of green doors. None of them had a label to say what was in them. You could open one of them and find...
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Michael Norton
Last updated:
25 Apr 2018
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Alert
The pilot of jet2 fight from Manchester to Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) makes a joke to the co pilot and then wipes his hands on his trousers. He takes a handkerchief out of his pocket and...
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Blair McPherson
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19 Apr 2018
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Managers Behaving Badly
Why do people behave badly in management team meetings? The same manager who is charming and agreeable to partner agencies is abrasive , argumentative and opinionated to colleagues...
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Blair McPherson
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17 Apr 2018
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Big data and Water Carriers
In business it’s all about the numbers. Analysing the huge amount of data businesses are now able to collect is being used to provide fresh insights into performance. But an obsession with...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:
12 Apr 2018
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Birmingham ‘Unconference’
Location and Date: Location: University of Birmingham, G15 Muirhead Tower, Edgbaston Campus University of Birmingham. B15 2TN . View Map Date: 11th May 10.30 to 4pm. About the Event: ...
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KHUB Focus
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12 Apr 2018
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What makes a successful multidisciplinary team
Talent and dedication are not enough. Team work and leadership are essential but recent management research suggests successful teams have something else. Drawing from the example of sport...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:
10 Apr 2018
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To the mananager who says I don’t need to explain
To the manager who says I don’t need to explain my decisions . I say you do. When things don’t work out, targets are missed and decisions are questioned the manager needs to respond. Simply saying...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:
09 Apr 2018
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In Praise of Older Managers
I thought if I hadn’t made it by the time I was 50 then I wasn’t going to make it. The thrusting, ambitious and going places 40 somethings seemed to dominate the top posts. Even words like...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:
07 Apr 2018
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Confrontational Leadership
Managers don’t have favourites. Managers don’t castigate individual team members in public. Managers don’t pointedly slight an individual in front of their colleagues. According to received...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:
05 Apr 2018
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Critical Steps For Building An Online Community
The following is a list of the critical points to consider when embarking on a project or plan to build an online community. This information is available from previous blog posts I've shared...
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Stephen Dale
Last updated:
02 Apr 2018
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Rewarding self promotion over talent
Does your organisation recognise and reward talent or does it just think it does? Does it in reality reward self promotion over talent? In many organisations those who climb the career...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:
29 Mar 2018
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Finding your top tasks can help improve your digital experience
It may be tempting to keep adding content to a website because its easy to do (and ironically usually easier than removing content). But doing so without aligning the new content to your...
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Chris Rourke
Last updated:
29 Mar 2018
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Clever people find ways to cheat
Perhaps I should rephrase that to cleaver people find ways round the system. I have always been sceptical about the usefulness of IQ in recruitment. Measuring an individual's ability to spot...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:
05 Apr 2018
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