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How many is too many ?
When it comes to HR trends where the US leads we tend to take notice. So a recent article that drew attention to the increased use of multiple interviews peaked my interest. It appears  some...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  17 Nov 2021
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MEDMI - The Medical and Environmental Data Mash-up Infrastructure project
Becky Gudka, a medical student from Exeter University, has interviewed creators and users of MEDMI, the Medical and Environmental Data Mash-up Infrastructure project and created an insightful...
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Neelam Iqbal
Last updated:  22 Jun 2022
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How decisions are made
A week before her first A level,  arrangements for sitting the exam were changed by the school. Just a minor change. The start time was moved forward half an hour along side a reminder that all...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  11 Nov 2021
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Jabs or Jobs 
What’s the best way to stoke up opposition and resentment? Answer tell employees they have no choice they either comply or lose their job. I have noted an increasingly autocratic approach to...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  09 Nov 2021
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Walter wasn’t a great player but he was an outstanding manager 
These days everyone wants a good review. Tell us how well we have done. But if the feedback is less than glowing it may get an angry and hurt response. This is why cautious managers so...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  09 Nov 2021
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 When management communication is just blah , blah ,blah
  Management involves getting your message across, what you want doing , how you want it doing and by when, your expectations of employees/team members behaviour and attitude, or in senior...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  05 Nov 2021
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Arsey Attitude
Employees who don’t accept the authority of the boss, providers who think the customer is definitely not king and HR professionals who believe their advice is law.    The conversation wasn’t...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  03 Nov 2021
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How to recognise a dinosaur
Do you recognise this description ? A large organisation rather complacent about its relationship with customers and employees, performance wise coasting, obsessed with cost cutting,...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  30 Oct 2021
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How can I help? 
He is a very caring human being, with a good set of professional values . He is a terrible manager.   It’s the mantra of the new chief executive. He starts every conversation and answers...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  30 Oct 2021
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The Bank Heist
What has an audacious bank robbery got to do with how organisations fail?  The plan is meticulous in its attention to detail. The team have been selected for their knowledge , experience...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  19 Oct 2021
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The names Bond ,James Bond 
 007 returns, shaken not stirred, updated but still the cool under pressure, man of action leading a life style normally associated with the rich and famous, living it up in top hotels and...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  02 Oct 2021
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The Lowering of the National Lead Intervention Concentration
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
Last updated:  28 Sept 2021
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Subject Access Request Experts 
Hi I am looking for Departmental Subject Access Request experts and wanting to know if you you have any best practices, databases and processes that you use that you are able to share.  If so...
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Nasreen Ayoob
Last updated:  14 Sept 2021
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Justified 
This is the title of a t.v. show about a US Marshall based in Lexington, Kentucky who was born and grew up in a close knit community in the Appalachian mountains. His unorthodox but Justified...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Sept 2021
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Inclusive recruitment is not enough
 An inclusive recruitment process is all well and good but the benefits will quickly be lost if the organisation can’t retain these same employees. An inclusive recruitment process is useless...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  06 Sept 2021
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Waterloo
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, so the Duke of Wellington is reported to have said on revisiting his old school. A statement that reflected a belief, still held,...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  06 Sept 2021
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A proportionate response
The sense of injustice was strong. It was unfair. Every body said so. Every one except the manager I complained to and the chief executive who didn’t bother to answer my email. The Sunday...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  15 Feb 2022
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Have you noticed how often incompetence is rewarded?
It’s the opposite of what you would expect. Instead of penalising employees who regularly mis deadlines and produce poor quality work managers often seem to reward them. Perhaps they raised...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  01 Sept 2021
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Has the pandemic changed what good leadership looks like
    According to research by a major management consultancy there is evidence of shifts in leadership style and behaviour during the pandemic. This has taken the form of focusing on the short...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  30 Aug 2021
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The Government Guidance Rainbow
Central Government departments are bound in their working practices by various guidance documentation that play an important role in PPM software deployment such as Microsoft Project for the...
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Emma-Ruth Arnaz-Pemberton
Last updated:  25 Aug 2021
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