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New Public Procurement Jobs
Procurement Jobs - Sharing a range of permanent, hybrid working procurement job opportunities at Buckinghamshire Council available as part of its new transformative journey. Come and join us at...
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Gus de Silva
Last updated:  15 Aug 2025
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Beware the buffet approach to business 
I have just come back from an all inclusive family holiday. The weather was hot and sunny, the accommodation comfortable and spacious, the food was excellent despite being served buffet style. The...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Aug 2025
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From hero to zero 
The local football manager achieved hero status by rescuing the team from almost certain relegation. The following season he secured a safe mid table finish. However a shadow was cast over the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  13 Aug 2025
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The Influencer
Previous generations would have called them radicals, today they would probably be called influencers.Maybe it’s the combination of experience  and passion,  maybe it’s their different...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  12 Aug 2025
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Labubu Dolls – Cute, Collectible… and Counterfeit?
Emma’s Hot Topic: Issue 1 Labubu Dolls – Cute, Collectible… and Counterfeit? Picture – North Tyneside Council via BBC News Labubu dolls, the quirky, elf-like collectibles from Chinese brand Pop...
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Emma Honey
Last updated:  10 Sept 2025
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You’re on Fire 
When you hear that music you can’t help but see that scene where Rocky runs up a long flight of steps in front of City hall throwing punches and jabbing fists in double quick time.  At the top...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  07 Aug 2025
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How do you become an assassin?
  Clearly the post is not advertised. However it is reasonable to assume that a recruiter would be looking for someone who has experience in killing people so a military background as a...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  10 Aug 2025
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How to eat a bacon sandwich and lead an organisation
This is not about the best way to avoid having greasy fingers ,  tomato sauce smeared over your face or simply looking very unattractive as you masticate with your mouth open. This is about...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  31 Jul 2025
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Pistols at dawn 
An HR shoot out sounds like something from the Wild West. Perhaps a more British version would be a dual. The way gentlemen settle disputes. Each party brings a second along, they stand back to...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  25 Jul 2025
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The role of education in FFP reforms
Setting the scene  We have a Strategic Education Consultant in our multi-agency safeguarding arrangements. This role is key in leading the work we have undertaken in our Local...
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Alisha Rao
Last updated:  24 Jul 2025
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No such thing as a free lunch 
A former colleague and friend of many years recently took up a post in the prestigious management school of the local university. Like her colleagues they teach on the course but also offer a...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  23 Jul 2025
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Be a bit more Ted Lasso -please 
You would be forgiven if you thought Ted Lasso was the CEO of some highly successful startup company causing a major shakeup in how to go  about running an organisation. But you won’t find...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  22 Jul 2025
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In the absence of a Slough House 
You may have come across a manager who is desperate to get rid of a member of their team but there is no legitimate reason for doing so. You can’t move them to another team because their reputation...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  21 Jul 2025
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The big step up
At certain points in your career you take a big step up. No matter how experienced and confident, no matter how prepared you thought you were , life in those first few months is hectic, chaotic and...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  21 Jul 2025
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How would AI with personality respond to a complaint
In your email to the Director  today you requested they look into the matter you raised on behalf of the Jameson house hold. In their same day response the Director informed you he would...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Jul 2025
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Let's do separating better...
Following the publication of the government’s final learning report from all eight projects involved in the Department for Work and Pensions Reducing Parental Conflict Challenge Fund, OnePlusOne is...
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Tabitha Frangoullides
Last updated:  23 Jul 2025
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Is a leader so important or will a figurehead do?
I have just read a review of a book, Fight by Jonathon Allen and Amie Parnes,  on the Presidency and failed reelection campaign of Joe Biden the 46th President of the USA. It is clear...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  11 Jul 2025
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Diversity backlash is nothing new 
When Birmingham City Council was taking Equality and Diversity very earnestly an adjacent Local Authority would have non of it. A colleague of mine working in HR took the post of head of HR in this...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  01 Aug 2025
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Building Control Business Support: The Backbone Behind Safe Construction
Behind every compliant and structurally sound building is a dedicated team ensuring the process runs seamlessly — Building Control Business Support.   From coordinating inspections to...
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Naren Badu
Last updated:  03 Jul 2025
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Slaying imaginary dragons
"Slaying imaginary dragons" means to overcoming personal challenges, fears, or negative thoughts, often these only exist in the mind.It's a metaphor for confronting and conquering internal...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  02 Jul 2025
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 The awkward squad
Has your organisation a deviant sub culture that inhibits innovation and transformation, explains why changes take so long to deliver and never fully  realise the benefits anticipated?   ...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  01 Jul 2025
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HR investigates
The manager expresses concern about the individuals quality of work, too many mistakes, and their general attitude to work which shows a lack of commitment. The employee complains of the manager...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  30 Jun 2025
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A high wire act with HR as the balancing pole 
True some people make it look easy but is it really as difficult and demanding as they would have us believe? I have heard it compared to walking a tightrope, a balancing act between competing...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  30 Jun 2025
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Busy is not the same as productive
My hairdresser always used to ask,”Are you busy at work” as a conversation opener. I usually answered,”not particularly” as I assumed she meant,”hectic “ and my work wasn’t , rather it was...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  27 Jun 2025
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EDI explained 
Dancers wanted. We would like to appoint dancers who can tango and or salsa. However whilst with us we expect you to waltz. Blair Mcpherson former Director, author and blogger...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  26 Jun 2025
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 Saggy stained mattress 
it’s my guilty early evening pleasure.Ever week four different  Bed and Breakfast’s establishments compete to see which offers the best vale for money. The tv. slogan is With 4 in a bed...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  25 Jun 2025
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If you listen closely you can hear the quiet cracking 
The ice melts slowly, it may still look thick and strong but it’s slowly thawing, you may be half way across the frozen lake before the cracks start appearing and then it may be too late. It’s the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  25 Jun 2025
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Launching, deploying: are we going to into orbit? Why words matter
I often hear people say, “land the change” and it really got me thinking about the analogy. When a plane lands, the journey is far from over. The plane must navigate taxiways, complete...
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Ian McLoughlin (North West)
Last updated:  23 Jun 2025
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It’s normal to talk to your self 
Just about to deliver a speech in front of a large audience. Sitting waiting to be interviewed for that job you desperately desire. Making a budget proposal which if successful will secure the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  23 Jun 2025
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More innovation …
RPC has been innovating approaches in one multi-service field. Other nearby fields are also working hard to improve things for kids and families. Two Wishes collects and posts especially about how...
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Nick Child
Last updated:  21 Jun 2025
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Don’t be a passion killer 
I once stood up at a large meeting of managers to announce that the social service department was going for Investors In People (IIP) accreditation for the whole department. I said how impressed...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  18 Jun 2025
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From Single Mum on Benefits to Civil Servant: Seen It. Done It. Lived It.
From Single Mum on Benefits to Civil Servant: Seen It. Done It. Lived It. There was a time when I felt invisible. A single mum, living on benefits, trying to build a future with nothing but...
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Zoe Pickford
Last updated:  16 Jun 2025
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The Future Is Carbon: Why Carbon Credits Are Key to 2040 and Europe's Climate Leadership
At first glance, they may seem like just another financial instrument. But in reality—and this is my personal view—credits are becoming a true lever for transformation, combining sustainability,...
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Rubén Parra
Last updated:  15 Jun 2025
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The why in what we do...
I never connected with the stereotypical view of an academic locked away in their ivory tower, far removed from the topics they explore. It never spoke to the ‘why’ of what I do. I have always...
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Anton Roberts
Last updated:  13 Jun 2025
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Rehab Special Interest Day 2025
Please follow the link below to access the recording from our 2025 Special Interest Day!     Rehab SID 2025
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Rehabilitation Project Team
Last updated:  13 Jun 2025
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What’s it like to work here?
Anthropologists have found that societies and cultures have in common a tendency to tell researchers  stories they think they will find interesting and not the reality of their lives. There...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  12 Jun 2025
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How to get a head without losing your head.
In the turbulent and changing world of the Tudors soft skills were the key to prosperity, power, influence and self preservation. Thomas Sackville member of Parliament and Lord High Treasure...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  10 Jun 2025
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Loyalty 
An employees takes a pay cut to save the company-is that loyalty or desperation?  A popular footballer leaves to join a rival cub is this disloyalty or a good career move ?   The boss...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  06 Jun 2025
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AI becomes dangerous 
“ When AI starts making us laugh, then we’re screwed” Salman Rushdie www.blairmcpherson.co.uk 
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  05 Jun 2025
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Environmental public health surveillance system (EPHSS): an introduction
UKHSA’s Environmental Public Health Surveillance System (EPHSS) provides a comprehensive, surveillance capability that allows the public health community to interrogate data and intelligence...
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Obiageli Onyekpe
Last updated:  04 Jun 2025
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