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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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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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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
Last updated:  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
Last updated:  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
Last updated:  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
Last updated:  14 Mar 2018
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Are local public museums a thing of the past?
  As director of Community Services, museums and Libraries came under my portfolio of responsibilities. When it comes to managing a service within a shrinking budget there are many...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  13 Mar 2018
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Don’t blame the social worker
  It’s all about the context in which you deliver your professional skills. Social work is all about how you treat people. The professional values that underpin social work ,...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  13 Mar 2018
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What is an essential service? When is a service no longer a safe service? 
  Another council leader discussing the dire budget position of their authority  states they only have enough money for “essential “ services but what is essential? I...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  12 Mar 2018
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The Three Tricks 
Three tricks endorsed by HR were in the spot light this week. Trick one is  to increase basic pay but at the same time remove paid breaks and enhancements for working on a Sunday. Trick two...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  12 Mar 2018
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Social Workers Night Out
The football team was made up of social workers, probation officers and their clients. The clients provided the skill, speed and youth, the social workers the organisational skills, transport and...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  09 Mar 2018
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Assessing leadership 
According to a recent survey of 200 HR managers by Top Employers the best way to assess a manager’s leadership skills is to look at how good their team is. This means assessing team...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  08 Mar 2018
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Our First Facilitator Welcome Call 
This is the first time we have done something like this and I found it very useful. A big thank you to Mike, Fiona, Ailie, Kyriacos and Dimple. Apologies if I have missed anything obvious. How...
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Michael Norton
Last updated:  08 Mar 2018
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The Irrational Manager
      We all like to think we are rational decision makers. Senior managers build their careers on their ability to put emotions and bias to one side and carefully way up the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  27 Feb 2018
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How do you maintain momentum after a face-to-face event?
We know that face to face events are a great way of bringing people together. Lots of knowledge and experience will get shared at these events. But for many people that attend a face to face event,...
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Michael Norton
Last updated:  27 Feb 2018
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The bad guys in the black hats
    In the old westerns you could always tell the goodies from the baddies by the colour of their stetsons. The bad guys wore black hats. On my social work course there was an...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  20 Feb 2018
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The Good, the Bad and the Wiki
This means that every member of your group has the ability to amend the wiki content if they desire. While the potential for mischief exists, wikis can be surprisingly robust, open-ended and...
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Michael Norton
Last updated:  16 Feb 2018
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The Wenger Effect 
The Wenger effect so called after the highly successful manager Arsene Wenger who achieved great success with an innovative system that got the best out of an extremely talented group of...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  15 Feb 2018
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