At times like this; invest in trust (IOD GLOBAL – CV19 #2)

Let’s consider the world of an organisation forced to change its operations, telling its 250 staff to work from home. The leaders know every employee by name and ought to know a few things about their personal circumstances.  The leaders’ priorities are… Continue reading

New course: Introduction to Reflective Practice and Journaling (Oxford, Jan 2020)

Does your profession expect you to use reflective practice (RP) to maintain the ability to practice? Increasingly professional bodies are seeing that attending workshops and conferences have limited long-term impact without the habit of RP. This is particularly true of… Continue reading

“Keeping staff in the dark about pay feeds perception of unfairness, new research from the CIPD finds…”

How extraordinary… I would NEVER have guessed that… “Keeping staff in the dark about pay feeds perception of unfairness, new research from the CIPD finds…”   http://view.comms.cipdmail.com/?qs=0918937c42381e69d90baa3f67958a7bd5e11e4fe2aaee3cd8e401898947b254647c099a985728366eb4bfd0172a1e7e3b728005f32c133a0ca1fbcb05e2f3f4cb555e902c771c21776fd4675a10d035  

In the pursuit of productivity…

Many business school and professional development programmes are based on the same politico-economic model… one that assumes that economic growth is always for the good… that we should all seek for our organisations to become ever more productive… that individuals… Continue reading

University of Oxford Continuing Education 2019/2020 programme is released!

If you are interested in doing something a little intellectual, widening your worldview, or exploring new ways of engaging with life, then you might be interested to know that the University of Oxford Continuing Education programme for 2019/2020 has gone… Continue reading

What is it that makes you different?

Our Unique Selling Proposition (USP) is the quality that sets us apart from other people.  Of course, a USP has to have some kind of relationship to the needs of our ‘customers’ (for want of a better term).  If they… Continue reading