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Influencer: The power to change anything
Richard Pound, Business Development Director, Robb Associates
Richard Pound
explains why he believes that the most important capacity all of us possess is our ability to influence behaviour and provides a proven approach to literally make change inevitable.
You might have to fight for the right to party, but do you need to fight for the right to manage?
Joan Henshaw, Ladder Consulting
Managers - are you afraid of your staff?
Joan Henshaw
explains the importance of being unafraid to manage and appraise your team, and the difference it can make to your company.
Using psychology to encourage green behaviour at work
Sarah Lewis, Managing Director, Appreciating Change
Do you want your organisation to go green?
Sarah Lewis
explains how to encourage your employees to break out of their habitual behaviour and help make a real difference to our environment.
Retaining skills in an economic downturn – encourage people to volunteer!
Tim Holden, Managing Director, Fluid Consulting
Is the recession affecting your company's ability to offer benefits and bonuses?
Tim Holden
explains how you can keep your employees engaged and enrich lives through volunteering.
The credit crunch and the leadership challenge
Sarah Lewis, Appreciating Change
Sarah Lewis
explains the problem of leader paralysis when facing big and unpredictable events, arguing that trying to predict the future and agonising over the consequences might be part of the problem.
Managing by numbers is easy – but how do I manage behaviours?
Joan Henshaw, Ladder Consulting
Is it possible to manage behaviours?
Joan Henshaw
thinks that while managers appreciate it is crucial to business success, they often dodge the issue. But being able to define and describe behaviours may provide the answer.
People don’t actually like being managed, do they?
Joan Henshaw, Ladder Consulting
The assumption that staff do not like to be managed is a misnomer, argues
Joan Henshaw
. What they really want is effectively performance management. And a little appreciation now and again.
The war for talent moves online
Dr.Emma Parry, Senior Research Fellow HRM, Cranfield School of Management
Current skills shortages mean that employers need to engage with potential employees and build relationships with them in order to attract them into their organisations.
Dr.Emma Parry
outlines how the internet is being used to do this.
Tomorrow's world: What next for the serviced apartment?
Catherine Chetwynd
Serviced apartments are often seen as a cost-effective alternative to booking remote workers into hotels.
Catherine Chetwynd
discovers that the future for serviced aparments includes a focus on energy efficiency, state-of-the-art entertainment systems and cutting-edge design.
NLP - the 21st century business success toolkit
Pat Hutchinson, Director, Quadrant 1 International
Over the past few years Neuro-Linguistic Programming has really come into its own in the world of business. Why is this?
Pat Hutchinson
explains.
Leadership Development - a practitioners dilemma!
Clive Leake, Managing Director, Cognitive Development Ltd.
What does
Clive Leake
do for a living? He helps leaders who aspire to do things 1% differently. Here, he explains what that means, how 'informal' leadership development works and the challenges of Creative Disturbance.
NLP in business: do you know what it is and what you can use it for?
David Molden, Director, Quadrant 1 International
NLP is often heralded as the cure-for-all by followers and enthusiasts, like the latest film or fashion fad to hit town. So why is
David Molden
never surprised to hear the question ‘what does NLP have to offer?’
A false economy
Gail Franks, Managing Director, Summersault Communications
Budget cuts might be on the agenda for many boards as they react to news of a likely recession.
Gail Franks
argues that HR departments should be fighting to preserve effective employee communications through troubled times.
Teamwork in pole position?
Gary Saunders, HR & Change Partner, fe3 consulting
There’s a lot spoken about teamwork and sport – but how important is teamwork in achieving sporting success? Or is it simply the brilliance of an individual Beckham that achieves the glory?
Gary Saunders
looks at teamwork and his personal passion – Formula 1 racing - to see if teamwork really does hold pole position.
Email Frenzy
Bryan Edwards, ABC Training Solutions Ltd.
With an estimated 183 billion emails sent every day, many going in and out of an estimated 516 million business email boxes, there’s a huge potential for mis-communication, misunderstandings, angry words, bad feelings and loss of productivity.
Bryan Edwards
offers some advice on email etiquette.
Are you a "stranger to yourself"?
Tessa Hood, Managing Director, Changing Gear Ltd.
Tessa Hood
explains how Personal Branding plays a vital role in how we are perceived by others and how it can become a powerful tool in enhancing the reputation of companies.
The manager as coach
Matt Somers
What excuse do you use to avoid coaching?
Matt Somers
presents some insights to guide managers through the path to effective coaching.
Survivor syndrome and outplacement
Tim Holden, Managing Director, Fluid Consulting
As the UK weathers the economic downturn, some HR departments will have to contemplate redundancies. As
Tim Holden
explains, outplacement programmes need to address the concerns of 'survivors' as well as those leaving the organisation.
Can you self-assess your management skills?
Robert Wagner, General Manager, map Assessment
What managers see in the mirror is not necessarily the way they are seen by others.
Robert Wagner
provides a guide for effective self-assessment.
Giving children's home leavers a chance in the workplace
Carole Ray, Writer/Editor, NCH
Being placed in a children's home need not be the end of a child's eventual employment prospects.
Carole Ray
of NCH explains some of the work that the children's charity perform in helping care leavers into the workplace.
Are we sending our employees to their death?
Graham Simons, Online Editor, The People Bulletin
RoSPA figures indicate that 15,000 cyclists are killed or injured each year. With the rise in popularity of tax-free bicycle schemes,
Graham Simons
wonders how inexperienced cyclists might cope on dangerous city streets.
Apprentice hired despite CV lies
Leila Hutchins, Editorial Assistant, AP Information Services
Last night saw the hiring of Lee McQueen in the final episode of the BBC's The Apprentice, however, his CV left much to be desired and contained lies and numerous spelling mistakes. But if Lee can be hired despite his prospective employer's knowledge of these inaccuracies, where does this leave the rest of us?
Leila Hutchins
investigates.
Lie detection - voodoo or science?
Geoff Trickey, Managing Director, Psychological Consultancy Ltd.
You're recruiting a potential new employee and are unsure whether the candidate is telling the truth.
Geoff Trickey
investigates lie detection and other integrity measures to find whether it is all mumbo-jumbo or is there actual science upon which we can rely.
If music be the food of training...
Mike Keating, Editorial Assistant, AP Information Services
Can music help concentrate the mind?
Mike Keating
looks into the use of music to enhance the learning experience.
“I’m too busy to coach!”: Dispelling the myth that coaching takes up too much time
Carole Gaskell, Founder & Chief Executive, Full Potential Group
There is a preconception that coaching is a time-consuming process that can only take place during lengthy, formalised sessions.
Carole Gaskell
dispels this myth and looks at some easy tools and techniques to effectively coach ‘in the moment’.
Vive la difference
Dr.Sue Hewitt, Women's Development Co-ordinator, Milecastle Consultancy Ltd.
Dr.Sue Hewitt
tells us why throwing women's CVs in the bin is not only bad business practice but could fatally erode your competitve edge.
Employee engagement – a work in progress?
Karen Drury, Consultant, fe3 consulting
Does employee engagement simply equate to good HR practice?
Karen Drury
assesses the latest thoughts on employee engagement and uncovers some complex concepts and a lack of definition.
Are British workers getting angrier?
Valerie Fawcett, Principal Consultant, Syntagm Ltd.
We're all getting angrier apparently. Here
Valerie Fawcett
of Syntagm tell us how we can understand our anger and channel it to positive ends.
Stereotype your way to success?
Dr. Sue Hewitt, Women's Development Consultant, Milecastle Consultancy Ltd.
When women are told men have greater mathematical ability they tend to perform worse on mathematical tasks than when they are not made aware of this negative stereotype.
Sue Hewitt
wonders whether trainers can harness stereotyping positively.
Training cost and value
Barry Johnson, Head of Research & Development, Learning Partners Ltd.
Barry Johnson
outlines an issue that bedevils training and that is the overriding focus on cost at the expense of value.
Failing by default
Stuart Gray, Managing Director, Portus Consulting
Stuart Gray
points out that the majority of employees in defined contribution pension schemes are failing to maximise investment returns as a result of settling for the default option. He tells us why the solution is to offer them access to one-to-one investment advice.
The importance of being hydrated
Leila Hutchins, Editorial Assistant, AP Information Services
While we are aware of the need to drink the recommended amount of water, studies show that 93% of us are dehydrated at any one time. How is this affecting performance and what can companies do about it?
Leila Hutchins
investigates.
Women and work – must try harder
Dr. Sue Hewitt, Women's Development Consultant, Milecastle Consultancy Ltd.
Sue Hewitt
takes apart two new reports to tell us just why true equality is as distant a dream as it was when employment legislation first came into force 30 years ago.
The seven traits of great leaders
Sally Duff, Managing Director, Caliper UK
How do leaders differ from managers? What are the key personality traits of great leaders?
Sally Duff
has the answers.