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Blair McPherson
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23 Meh 2021 - 13:14

null So you think you are good at recruitment 

You know the argument about whether drivers should have to retake their driving test at regular intervals well the same reasoning applies to recruitment interviews. The roads have got a lot busier since you passed your test and over time all of us pick up some bad driving habits. Well some managers never had any recruitment training they have just done it ever since they became a... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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23 Meh 2021 - 13:04

null The unfairness at the heart of the recruitment process. 

There is an unfairness at the heart of the recruitment process which rewards those who are good at interviews above those who are good at the job. The surprise is not that the traditional interview results in some bad appointments it’s that it ever results in some good ones! HR have tried to shift the emphases away from the focus on the interview by introducing an Assessment Centre... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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09 Meh 2021 - 15:30

null 360 degree feedback 

“ Don’t ask what I think of you I might not give the answer you want me to. “  Oh Well- Fleetwood Mac. 
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Blair McPherson
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03 Meh 2021 - 12:49

null On Boarding getting employees on board and keeping them on board 

On Boarding is management jargon for getting new employees familiar with the way we do things round here. It’s not just about the routines, tasks and knowledge it’s learning about the organisation’s culture. It can also mean learning about the organisation’s unofficial culture the way we really do things round here.  On Boarding is more than just induction. Induction is what ... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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01 Meh 2021 - 14:43

null The chaos theory of leadership

Do you assume the motivation behind the ambitious manager is the desire to make a difference or the craving  for power , status and rewards that go with it? Maybe it’s always a mixture of both but for those who adopt the chaos theory of leadership it’s defiantly the latter. For the overconfident, extremely ambitious the aim is to get the top job and to keep it as long as possible. To... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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28 Mai 2021 - 18:21

null It’s editing Jim but not as we know it. 

I wrote - Captain Kirk of the starship Enterprise is 90 or the original actor to play him is.  But that’s not what appeared in print.    https://www.thehrdirector.com/features/leadership/leaders-can-learn-captain-james-t-kirk/   I write occasional articles for several professional journals. One in particular runs 2 or 3 new articles on its web site every day. That requires a lot... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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21 Mai 2021 - 15:27

null Funny names list

It started harmlessly enough just a casual observation to a colleague about some clients names that got turned into a list, circulated and added to. The list was titled Funny Names. As the Funny Names list became more widely circulated there were growing concerns from some employees that the names were predominantly of Asian and non Anglo Saxon origin. This sparked a  fierce internal... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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13 Mai 2021 - 15:41

null Unconscious Bias the Baby and the Bath Water 

I met up with a former colleague  last week who keeps in touch with  their ex team members on social media and was beginning to regret it. A picture of a child’s soft doll  with bright clothes, a black face and fuzzy hair was being shared with the words , “Let’s see how many shares we can get before this is removed”.  He was shocked and disappointed. As a manager he had championed... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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13 Mai 2021 - 15:29

null Light my fire 

Her name was Heather and she was a swim wear model. She wasn’t the most obvious choice for a conference speaker. She stood at the front of the stage and spoke to an audience of about a thousand senior managers and board members. She spoke for approximately 45 minutes without notes. She was serious and funny, honest, angry and interesting. She talked about the accident in a very matter... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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06 Mai 2021 - 15:26

null Doing as little as necessary and Just enough is never enough. 

Doing as little as necessary sounds like a skivers charter. Where as Just enough is never enough could be the motto of a demanding manager. The first is about a radically different way of operating the second is about learning from mistakes so that next time we do better than just survive.  In the news paper today I read about an innovative award wining partnership based on a... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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04 Mai 2021 - 14:09

null Relaxed and informal should not led to overfamiliar and discourteous. 

It was Saturday night in my favourite curry house  and who should come in but a small group of people including a well know comedian from the t.v. This is a very low key establishment in the back streets of Birmingham  full of students and locals not an upmarket eatery. At first people take little notice and allow the party to order their food. But before they have finished eating a... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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25 Ebrill 2021 - 05:50

null “I’d tell you if you were doing something wrong”

All to often the first time the boss says how much they value your contribution and appreciate your commitment is at your leaving do! This seems consistent with a resent survey which found 80% of employees felt their manager did not give enough feedback. HR are familiar with the scenario where a manager wishes to terminate an employees employment due to an unsatisfactory probationary... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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22 Ebrill 2021 - 10:12

null What is it?

Jimmy Hendrix was a master of it, not so most managers. Employees want it, although not everyone enjoys it. There is a skill to giving it, get it right and both the individual and the organisation benefit. What is it? 
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Blair McPherson
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14 Ebrill 2021 - 21:30

null The Good Fight, the N word and HR

  Over the Easter weekend I watched the latest episode of The Good Fight on Netflix. It’s a US t.v. series set in a law firm. What’s different  about it is its topical ,political ( US politics ) and likes to confront ethical issues head on. In the new series the small African American Chicago based law firm that made its name by taking on cases of police brutally and its money by... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
ysgrifennodd bost blog arall
14 Ebrill 2021 - 10:49

null It always worked in the past

The ancient Chinese believed  eclipses of the Sun were the result of a dragon attempting to eat it. To prevent this from happening everyone went out into the street and banged pots and pans to scare the dragon away. It worked every time!  We allow ourselves a rye smile at the naivety of our ancestors. But if you lived in those times and didn’t believe this explanation would you be... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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05 Ebrill 2021 - 11:49

null Organisations in Denial 

Some leaders think it is a perfectly normal state of affairs in these challenging times for managers to be cynical and staff disillusioned. Some leaders claim staff always moan about their managers and distrust senior management and that this does not mean that the organisation will underperform, disappoint clients or has problems that at some point will surface dramatically. They are... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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15 Mawrth 2021 - 07:14

null Changing your mind 

The willingness to change your mind is a good quality in a leader as long as they don’t do it too often. Change it too often and you’re a nightmare to work for, never change it and you’re a disaster waiting to happen.    I would complain to my elder statesman colleague on the senior management team about the boss’s  failure to stick to his guns when mangers express doubts about a... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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08 Mawrth 2021 - 16:12

null This is not America

This is not America. I am not an American. I am not anti Americans just their business/management culture. The business schools, the MBA courses, the case studies and the language, the influence of the US is overwhelming. The attitude and the behaviour, the way they do things, are held up as models to study and emulate. They are the biggest and best, so they tell us. Recently , to... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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14 Ebrill 2021 - 06:23

null Some of the least effective managers are also the busiest 

Either because they don’t delegate appropriately or find it too difficult to prioritise but mostly because they attend the wrong meetings. They attend meeting based on whose chairing rather than the agenda. With the result they miss meetings that they really should have attended. The questions they should be asking are can I make a meaningful contribution? Do I need to attend every... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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16 Chwef 2021 - 10:34

null ZAP! WHACK! BIFF! BAM! BOFF! 

The new Batman will be black DC comics has revealed. Can he do for your organisation what he is going to do for Gotham City? Or will it be Wonder Woman who returns to save the day? Does your organisation’s Equality and Diversity strategy recognise the lack of black employees in senior posts and is one of the aims of the strategy to address this situation? Do you believe in ... Gweld mwy
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