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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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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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 juin 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 avr. 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 avr. 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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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null Bridgerton
It’s trending. It’s on t.v. It’s about the life’s and loves of the
aristocracy in Regency England. So what’s it got to do with diversity
and inclusion in your organisation? Bridgerton a Netflix costume
drama reimagines Regency England as a place where black people existed
as equals with whites. And that’s a game change.
Netflix has a Vice President of inclusion responsible the
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