How safe is your work place ? No I’m not taking about working with
dangerous machinery or hazardous chemicals. I’ m not referring to the
risk of falling objects, flying objects or sharp objects. I’m not
thinking about the risk of being shot, run over, attacked, falling
from a great height, being electrocuted or drowning. I’m asking if
you feel that your team or organisation is a...
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“We know there is life on Mars because we sent it there” , NASA’s
former chief scientist.
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07 Gorff 2021 - 10:41
Writing in defence of hypocrisy would be like expressing sympathy
for the devil, you’re not going to convince anyone that it’s anything
other than despicable. And yet hypocrisy exists in every organisation
for a very good reason. It occurs whenever decisions and actions are
inconsistent or conflict with previously stated ideals, values or
performance measures. This...
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28 Meh 2021 - 11:13
null Stress and Burn out
Looking back it’s clear I didn’t cope well with stress. I didn’t
even recognised I was stressed. I don’t know to what I attributed the
frequent headaches so sever I came home from work and went straight
to bed, or the development of a pronounced stutter, something I had
not experienced before or since. When I changed job the headaches and
stutter went away. But I still ended up...
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25 Meh 2021 - 10:44
The worst job I ever had was working in the social security office,
before computerisation, matching post to case files. Every morning I
was given a long list of names to locate their files. The problem was
that the filing cabinets were bursting so files were piled on top of
cabinets in wobbly towers. Files could also be “ out” meaning on
someone’s desk . There was no guarantee the...
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23 Meh 2021 - 13:14
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...
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23 Meh 2021 - 13:04
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...
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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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03 Meh 2021 - 12:49
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
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01 Meh 2021 - 14:43
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...
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28 Mai 2021 - 18:21
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...
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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...
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13 Mai 2021 - 15:41
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...
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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...
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06 Mai 2021 - 15:26
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...
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04 Mai 2021 - 14:09
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...
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25 Ebrill 2021 - 05:50
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...
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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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14 Ebrill 2021 - 21:30
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...
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14 Ebrill 2021 - 10:49
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...
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