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The Understanding Manager
Everyone wants a supportive manager some one who recognises your value to the team and acknowledges your skill and work ethic, some one who is sympathetic when some difficulty in your personal...
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14 Sep 2020
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Simply the Best
If you ask a highly successful manager, a great leader what it is that makes them so effective don’t expect to get the answer that those who work with them would give. Even the best often lack...
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11 Sep 2020
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Vanity Projects
A project that is not justified by cost and effort and whose purpose is to make the instigator look good. The most famous was the USA race with the Soviet Union to put a man on the Moon the...
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08 Sep 2020
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The hole in the donut
These managers never seem to focus on the perfect circle. Instead, their first comment calls attention to the inconsequential mistake. They ask for trivial back-up data that you failed to bring...
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02 Sep 2020
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It’s Complicated
He drove the car, a reluctant participant in what was a sectarian assassination. First he finds the librarian he fancy’s is the wife of the man they murdered. Then he takes a job working on her...
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14 Sep 2020
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Ginger Rogers’ Annual Appraisal
Annual appraisals do more harm than good and now it’s ok to say so. Many large companies have dropped Annual Appraisals replacing achievement and reward with support and coaching. One to One...
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25 Aug 2020
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It’s your dream job but there is a catch
It’s your dream job. You have said so publicly and often, which hasn’t gone down well with previous employers. It’s high profile with a very competitive salary. But it’s only for nine months!...
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20 Aug 2020
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Boxing Clever
” Everyone has a plan until they are punched in the mouth.” Mike Tyson was not known for his wit and wisdom but his ferocity. His comment was therefore probably just a statement of the...
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18 Aug 2020
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Statistics don’t tell the whole story
Statistics may never lie, though everyone knows they can be economical with the truth. Everyone being managers and members. LA leaders and chief executives struggle to persuade the local...
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14 Aug 2020
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Connecting community capabilities – how can an Open Place Directory help in the time of COVID-19?
There are examples across the whole of the UK, and some great tweets and posts about the ways in which councils have worked together with their partners and communities. The New Local...
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14 Aug 2020
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The best organisation are like enthusiastic gardeners
If HR are were to adopt a gardening metaphor it would be weeds are just flowers in the wrong place. This is not what a manager who has been asked to consider someone on...
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13 Aug 2020
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Connecting people to respond to COVID-19
With budget cuts and reduced funding, digital collaboration plays an important role and enables Knowledge Hub members to stay connected, reach a wider audience and support their work. The...
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13 Aug 2020
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Don’t Oversimplify
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15 Aug 2020
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Managing a budget is too often like dieting
Following on from his successful book “The Food Myth” Tim Spector has written , “ Spoon-Feed: Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food Is Wrong”. On reading it I was struck by the...
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08 Aug 2020
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Out of touch managers
In the years immediately after England won the World Cup the then manager Alf Ramsey could do no wrong in the eyes of his players but as the winning team was replaced by a new...
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24 Jul 2020
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A personal journey from council officer to supplier, via the MHCLG Local Digital team
In late June and early July 2018, I was racing between London, Cardiff and Birmingham, helping Linda O’Halloran, Egle Uzkaraityte, Adam Thoulass and our colleagues in the embryonic MHCLG Local...
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24 Jul 2020
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A faint air of menace 2
We need to talk about how we talk about Black Lives Matter (BLM) in the work place because the subject still has a faint air of menace about it. If people are reluctant to talk about diversity...
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22 Jul 2020
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Do you read the instructions?
You might be someone who jumps right in and gets stuck in there and learns by winging it. Or you might be a little more cautious and assess all the bits and pieces first and then get going,...
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15 Jul 2020
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Alien Encounter
If aliens from a distant and previously unknown planet landed seeking asylum and only to be allowed to integrate into society, HR would have no problem adapting equality and diversity policies...
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09 Jul 2020
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Heated arguments in the Team Meeting
To anyone observing it was a very heated argument. One member of the team was criticising another and not holding back. The other responded with a few well chosen remarks of their own. Voices...
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13 Aug 2020
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