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Be Careful, Your Prejudices Are On Show
You cannot understand others unless you understand yourself. Self awareness and personal insight increases perception and sensitivity towards others.A way of observing managers who have little self awareness is to look at whom they are close to at w...
Performance Management: Let’s Start At Your Beginning
Performance Management is a hot topic in many organisations as they struggle to define themselves as high performing businesses. The difficulty many face is that the organisation holds many different views about what performance management means and ...
Pragmatism Or A Lack Of Integrity?
Your organisation needs to change shape, whether that’s due to economic circumstances or because of a change of strategy. This can mean cutting back on the work force. In such circumstances, how do you approach redundancy issues?This article isnâ€...
What We’re Playing: The Making of The President
Title: The Making of The PresidentPublisher: Z-Man GamesPrice: $44.99Reviewer: Claudine McCleanThe United States Presidential election doesn’t happen until November, but with the most interesting primary season for decades it looks set to be a fasc...
Transformational Leadership – Unlocking Leadership Potential Across Your Organisation
Organisations are now in a permanently turbulent change state, the days of the status quo are over. Transformational leadership is the most effective response; it effectively positions you for the future and increases your capacity to deal with the c...
An Intense Injection Of Skills Input = Individual Performance Improvement
Our suite of open programmes is focused around the key skills needed by today’s top performing sales people and successful managers. They provide a Learning Pathway for individuals as they progress through their careers from first line sales and ma...
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and E-learning
CPD accreditation gives members confidence that their professional body and employer are working together to help them adopt an approach to continuing professional development which is consistent with their requirements.All of our e-learning modules ...
Gaining Employee Input
On the surface it may appear to be a straight forward issue, but it is easy to give advice rather than actively seek employee’s involvement and it can be easy to allow one’s own biases to guide the discussion.Key Principles:1. Explain to the emp...
Performance Management At Christmas
How come Christmas always works? The answer is Father Christmas’s Performance Management System is built on fundamental best practice principles.Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)Built around SMART objectives, right present, right person, right hous...
What We’re Reading: The Secret Life Of The Corporate Jester
With Christmas fast approaching we find ourselves at crowded dinner tables talking and laughing with friends and family. Just as at work we have expectations of people in our social circles. There’s the worried ones who constantly express concerns ...
