“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen” Winston Churchill
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Last week, one of my colleagues brought to my attention a newspaper article featuring a story on bullying at the Tate. It charts the outputs of an employee survey which indicated [...]
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Recently, I received a telephone call. When my colleague told me who the call was from, prior to me picking up the call, I thought, “I [...]
“We all face a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations” Charles Swindoll
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One of the areas in discussion in organisations at the moment is of social networking sites and the danger of them. In the last two months or so I have heard about:
An employee posting disparaging comments [...]
‘It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself’ Betty Friedan
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Happy mothers day!
Three weeks ago I left my wife and two young children. For clarification, it was planned and was only for a long weekend. I had first raised the idea around four years [...]
Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. Sir Winston Churchill
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I had my own experience of coping with change last week. What was it? I travelled on a London bus for the first time in my life. I was travelling with a colleague. A [...]
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As you may know, on 27th January this year the Government announced a consultation of proposed workplace dispute reforms as part of the introduction of a new Employers Charter. The consultation continues until 20th April 2011.
This is big news. The basis of the review is that 236,000 claims went through the UK [...]
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Thought for the day: ” Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” Henry Ford (1863-1947)
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It seems that the missive about my train trip via Birmingham of a few weeks ago has prompted a number of people to think about personal development. Thank [...]
Thought for the day: “If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view - as well as your own.” - Henry Ford.
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It’s a slightly [...]
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Thought for the day: “I am always ready to learn although I don’t always like being taught” Winston Churchill
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As you may know, I am a supporter of continual learning - sometimes referred to as lifelong learning.
I met someone who inspired me last week. I was on a train [...]
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Thought for the day: “”I look for three things in hiring people. The first is personal integrity, the second is intelligence, and the third is a high energy level. But, if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.” - Warren Buffett
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