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A personal journey from council officer to supplier, via the MHCLG Local Digital team
In late June and early July 2018, I was racing between London, Cardiff and Birmingham, helping Linda O’Halloran, Egle Uzkaraityte, Adam Thoulass and our colleagues in the embryonic MHCLG Local...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Last updated:  24 Jul 2020
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A faint air of menace 2
We need to talk about how we talk about Black Lives Matter (BLM) in the work place because the subject still has a faint air of menace about it. If people are reluctant to talk about diversity...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  22 Jul 2020
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Do you read the instructions?
You might be someone who jumps right in and gets stuck in there and learns by winging it. Or you might be a little more cautious and assess all the bits and pieces first and then get going,...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Last updated:  15 Jul 2020
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Alien Encounter 
If aliens from a distant and previously unknown planet landed seeking asylum and only to be allowed to integrate into society, HR would have no problem adapting equality and diversity policies...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  09 Jul 2020
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Heated arguments in the Team Meeting
To anyone observing it was a very heated argument. One member of the team was criticising another and not holding back. The other responded with a few well chosen remarks of their own. Voices...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  13 Aug 2020
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Time travel doesn’t require a time machine. You can’t go forwards into the future only backwards into the past. Time travel is not open to everyone but every generation has individuals who...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  05 Jul 2020
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Champions League 
Black Lives Matter is making us rethink our approach to Equality. Most organisations have management steering groups to monitor their equality strategies and action plans. But the agendas lack...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  01 Jul 2020
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Hot Hand
An expression in basketball to describe a player on a hot scoring streak who feels and appears unable to miss. But for every up side there is a downside,  the top striker who just can’t score,...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  30 Jun 2020
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Don’t look to football managers for best practice 
Is managing a football club so different to being a senior manager in a Local Authority?Both are challenged to motivate talented individuals. Both have a vision and a plan for the future whilst...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  27 Jun 2020
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I look to football managers for lessons in management 
Football managers like Jurgen Klopp and Jose Mourinho and from a previous generation Alex  Ferguson and Brian Clough are stand out managers with impressive track records. They are extreme...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  26 Jun 2020
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Playing up and Playing down 
Sometimes you have to play up and sometimes play down your abilities. The scene is a golf club, the context a new manager trying to break into a close knit group of colleagues , the method,...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Jun 2020
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Big and Scary 
It’s big and it’s scary, it’s in the room and ignoring it won’t make it go away. An Elephant in the Room is an expression to describe a big topic everyone is ignoring, pretending it...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  13 Jun 2020
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More than just a soft machine 
I WAS AT ONE TIME THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF RESOURCES IN A LARGE COMPLEX ORGANISATION. FINANCE, IT, PERSONNEL AND TRAINING FELL WITHIN MY REMIT. THIS LINE MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENT REFLECTED THE...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  10 Jun 2020
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It doesn’t help that people really don’t like HR.
  Human Resource staff make people behave and they don’t like it. They are the ones that tell you that even if you think the jokes are funny, you still can’t tell sexist, racist or homophobic...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  09 Jun 2020
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Sometimes it takes a crisis
When this pandemic is over you will know a lot more about your staff/ managers . A crisis brings out the strength in some and the weaknesses in others. It will not necessarily have been the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  09 Jun 2020
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The Art of Winging It
Before you know what you are doing you’re expected to know what you are doing, so you have no choice but to wing it. It happened to me. As part of a cost cutting senior management restructuring...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  05 Jun 2020
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Management anyone can do it-not
The interesting thing about management is that pretty much everyone thinks they could do it and do it better. It’s not rocket science. That is why so many people think they understand it. But...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  22 May 2020
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Residential Care is Killing Older People 
  What has the coronavirus crisis told us about residential care? It has told us that residential care puts older people at far greater risk, which is ironic since the biggest reason for...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  18 May 2020
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What’s  different about leadership in a crisis as opposed to any other time ?
The characteristics of effective leadership are the same in normal times as they are during a crisis. The difference is that during a crisis there is a temptation for leaders to do too much, to...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 May 2020
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Rejuvenating the Talent Pool
    Even a successful management team needs their talent pool rejuvenated at regular intervals. Move too slowly and inevitably performance declines . Move too fast and the instability and...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  13 May 2020
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