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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
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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
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25 Apr 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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05 Apr 2018
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How to impress the Boss
You creep. Not as easy as you think if you don’t want to alienate your colleagues and lose all self respect. It’s not about agreeing with his or her every word, it’s not about volunteering...
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Blair McPherson
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25 Mar 2018
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Why high flyers are more likely to crash and burn
Organisations look to appoint talented and experienced individuals and rarely look at their track record for evidence of resilience. Resilience is the ability to cope with set backs,...
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Blair McPherson
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22 Mar 2018
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It’s just an illusion
We arrived late. The only seats left were on the front row. The man on the stage stopped what he was saying and welcomed us pointing to the empty seats at the front. The spot light was...
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Blair McPherson
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22 Mar 2018
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This Epidemic of Bullying
The current epidemic of bulling is evidence of the frequency with which people get into positions of power without acquiring the skills to manage people. It is very worrying that that people can...
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Blair McPherson
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14 Mar 2018
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