Your application form gets you the interview your interview gets you
the job.
The difference between a CV and an application form is that the
application form is written specifically for the post applied for so
you are required to organise the section headed supporting information
so that it directly relates to each requirement listed in the person
specification. You stand a much...
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Your blogs - Blair McPherson
Blair
McPherson
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14 Awst 2022 - 15:06
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08 Awst 2022 - 11:19
This larger than life person is interesting therefore what they have
to say is interesting. Whilst this doesn’t follow people frequently
behave as if it did.
“ People don’t believe in ideas they believe in people who
believe in ideas” Ze’ve Mankowitz historian
Most employees don’t care about the latest big idea from senior
management, but when the controversial new Director...
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07 Awst 2022 - 12:56
I set my self a target to be a Director by the time I was 50.
According to research by the Family and Work Institute in the US most
people stop jostling for promotion at 35 coinciding with child care
responsibilities. Not me, I dragged my family around the country in
pursuit of my goal. However that was not the most destructive element
of my ambition. After 18 months in post I would...
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02 Awst 2022 - 11:22
null Powered by People
The corporate slogan prominently displayed on the recruitment advert
was Powered by People. So what does this bring to mind, a
treadmill or the John Lennon song Power to the People ? Do you think
sweat, effort and mind numbing tedium or management that seeks your
views and acts upon them? The drudgery of work or the uplift from
knowing your views are valued?
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26 Gorff 2022 - 11:19
Seek out the reluctant candidate who needs to be cajoled into
accepting the position because they are not driven by naked ambition,
they are not over confident, they will not see dissent as personal
disloyalty or feel so insecure in the post as to shut down debate. If
their reluctance is not based on doubts about their ability but an
accurate assessment of the difficult nature of the...
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25 Gorff 2022 - 08:34
null My Story
A good story gets you an interview, expanding convincingly on that
story gets you the post.
I didn’t always want to be a manager let alone a senior manager.
In fact when I started out I thought there were only two types of
manager , good managers rended ineffective by out of touch senior
managers and bad managers tolerated by out of touch senior managers.
Over the years, as my...
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21 Gorff 2022 - 08:13
Thundering rock music, super sonic jet fighters and a central
character who is a rebel with a need for speed, Top Gun gives a lot of
bangs for your bucks. But why are senior management always portrayed
as out of touch, overly bureaucratic , risk adverse, stuffed shirts. I
would like to see a film or t.v.series where senior management is the
hero. The pitch to the commissioning...
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25 Gorff 2022 - 16:15
The image is of someone frantically bailing out a leaky boat whilst
water continues to pore in through the holes in its hull. There is a
lot of effort but it doesn’t make much difference. This is what it is
like trying to make the organisation more diverse by putting a lot of
effort into recruitment whilst ignoring Inclusion.
The reason why diversity is championed as good for
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11 Gorff 2022 - 10:07
null Learn how to lose
It’s Wimbledon so the sports pages have an interview with John
McEnroe. He who was as famous for his on court tantrums as his skills
with a racket. He was a serial winner who said he had to learn how to
lose. It reminded me of interviews for senior management posts.
There were four of us in for the Directors post. We were being
chaperoned by the executive recruiter the night before...
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10 Gorff 2022 - 14:28
It’s called tapping up in the game an attempt to persuade a player
contracted to one team to join another with out first seek the
permission of their current employer (Who would of course not give
it). Alternatively the manager of another club publicly expressing
admiration for someone else’s player. The message being we want you
come and join us. Alex Ferguson didn’t like players...
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10 Gorff 2022 - 09:50
If your organisation has or aspires to a diverse workforce your
managers should be able to demonstrate cultural competence yet most
managers would feel I’ll prepared to pass a Cultural Competence test.
Of even greater concern is the number of organisations claiming to be
striving for Equality and Inclusion and yet when appointing managers
they do not stipulate in the Person...
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04 Gorff 2022 - 11:13
Is someone working on ensuring AI understands sarcasm? Being to
literal could be a real problem. On the other hand who wants a
sarcastic robot!
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30 Meh 2022 - 14:56
null Interviews from Hell
“It’s 5 p.m. on a Friday. You have been called to an interview for
your dream job. In a stunning office thirteen floors above the city
below, you are all alone with the man interviewing you. Everyone else
has gone home for the weekend.The interview gets more and more
disturbing. You’re feeling scared.Your only way out is to answer a
seemingly impossible question.” The Interview...
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25 Meh 2022 - 11:56
“ Throwing money at the problem won’t solve it.” Margaret Thatcher.
NASA disproved that theory in putting a man on the moon.
“ Spend alone doesn’t explain differences in performance between
LA’s.” Audit Commission. No but poverty, low income , and health
inequalities does present a bigger challenge for some LA’s.
It’s not about the money is a dangerous slogan. Of course you can
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24 Meh 2022 - 11:05
The pandemic has caused significant numbers of employees to question
whether they want to change jobs and do something different. The
return to work has reveal previously unrecognised or ignored levels of
disengagement. The management have tended to assume that whilst a
minority of employees may feel it’s just a job and do as little as
they can get away with the majority care about...
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18 Meh 2022 - 10:16
null Drugs and Driving
He doesn’t remember anything about the accident. If it was an
accident. The boy who was due to go to Oxford but who now struggled to
writ his name. His best friend said he was up set. His girl friend
said it was a silly argument. But neither of them would say anymore.
When he crashed through the road works he was doing over a hundred.
Everyone said he was lucky to be alive although he...
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13 Meh 2022 - 10:27
Why this obsession with superheroes are ordinary heroes no longer up
to the job? Well what chance us mere managers.
How many superheroes can you list? It used to be that there was
Superman and Spider Man plus possibly Batman, although technically he
didn’t have any super powers. Now due to the popularity of the
Avengers and X -men films it’s not just the comic book nerds who can
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11 Meh 2022 - 20:20
null Making your mind up
If you want to change someone’s mind ask the right questions, listen
carefully to the answers and share your own story. But be warned the
person describing how to do this considers it to be so effective that
he has serious doubts about about telling you.
How minds change David McRaney
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09 Meh 2022 - 11:02
May be you were just the unlucky person who picked up the phone but
the manager on the other end is angry, very angry with HR. Perhaps
something has gone wrong in the recruitment process, maybe there has
been a cock up over the redundancy notices, or a disgruntled employee
has been advised to submit a formal grievance against this manager.
Could it be that the disciplinary hearing did...
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The idea that this new thing won’t work here because our
circumstances, population profile, unique history, political make up,
levels of deprivation, industrial past, prevailing culture, are so
different. Coupled with a misplaced view that we’re not only different
but a bit better than the others so we don’t need to do what they do.
Resistance to change from the top is often simply a...
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