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Inclusive recruitment is not enough
An inclusive recruitment process is all well and good but the benefits will quickly be lost if the organisation can’t retain these same employees. An inclusive recruitment process is useless...
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06 Sep 2021
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Waterloo
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, so the Duke of Wellington is reported to have said on revisiting his old school. A statement that reflected a belief, still held,...
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Blair McPherson
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06 Sep 2021
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A proportionate response
The sense of injustice was strong. It was unfair. Every body said so. Every one except the manager I complained to and the chief executive who didn’t bother to answer my email. The Sunday...
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Blair McPherson
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15 Feb 2022
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Have you noticed how often incompetence is rewarded?
It’s the opposite of what you would expect. Instead of penalising employees who regularly mis deadlines and produce poor quality work managers often seem to reward them. Perhaps they raised...
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Blair McPherson
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01 Sep 2021
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Has the pandemic changed what good leadership looks like
According to research by a major management consultancy there is evidence of shifts in leadership style and behaviour during the pandemic. This has taken the form of focusing on the short...
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Blair McPherson
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30 Aug 2021
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The Government Guidance Rainbow
Central Government departments are bound in their working practices by various guidance documentation that play an important role in PPM software deployment such as Microsoft Project for the...
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25 Aug 2021
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Corporate Kryptonite
“ I will pretend to agree with you ,boss, but only because I am afraid I will lose my job if I don’t.” Every business pretends to believe in allowing candour and transparency in its...
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Blair McPherson
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23 Aug 2021
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How a no blame culture works
Whether it’s penalty misses or bad decisions there should be no scapegoats, no coverups, just a willingness to talk openly about mistakes Sweden halved the number of avoidable birth injuries in...
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Blair McPherson
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19 Aug 2021
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Never say No
As a grandparent I never say no, as a parent I said it a lot, apparently. As a manager I didn’t like people saying no to me so I tended to ask for forgiveness rather than permission. As an ...
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Blair McPherson
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14 Aug 2021
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MOJ Call for evidence on dispute resolution in England and Wales
https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/dispute-resolution-england-wales-call-for-evidence/ Launched today NFM welcomes the opportunity to contribute to this new consultation....
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Jane Robey
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03 Aug 2021
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Corruption and Crime in Local Government
I worked as a Director in an LA where the leader and chief executive are still on police bail accused of corruption and intimidation of witnesses. Just how many senior local authority figures...
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Blair McPherson
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03 Aug 2021
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The more things change the more they stay the same
Many employees would recognise this as a description of their organisation. They have survived numerous reorganisations, frequent changes of leadership, the adoption of different working...
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Blair McPherson
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02 Aug 2021
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Environmental Epidemiology Training Module and recent conference presentations
Environmental Epidemiology Training module Every year, as part of the UK Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP), both fellows and anyone internal or external to PHE, can apply ...
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Neelam Iqbal
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26 Jul 2021
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The Hulk
I once worked for a Director who stormed out of the office when I said something he didn’t like. Thing was it was his office! Organisations like people have personalities which shape the way...
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Blair McPherson
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21 Jul 2021
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Success is all about who is on your team
Some times you meet the person at the top of the organisation and you’re surprised, surprised at how ordinary they are. From the reputation for being a top performing organisation you were...
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Blair McPherson
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21 Jul 2021
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Does your organisation have trust issues?
Research shows that managers who cannot “ see” their direct reports sometimes struggle to trust that their employees are in fact working. As a trainee, before mobile phones, my team manager...
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Blair McPherson
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19 Jul 2021
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Will cows become extinct?
If we can grow meat in the laboratory. Will vegetarians eat it? Will cows become extinct ? If cows could express a choice would they prefer to exist to be eaten, like the talking cow brought to...
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Blair McPherson
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18 Jul 2021
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Is this a safe place ?
How safe is your work place ? No I’m not taking about working with dangerous machinery or hazardous chemicals. I’ m not referring to the risk of falling objects, flying objects or sharp...
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Blair McPherson
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15 Jul 2021
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We know there is life on Mars
“We know there is life on Mars because we sent it there” , NASA’s former chief scientist.
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Blair McPherson
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15 Jul 2021
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Celebrating 10 years of LG Inform
LG Inform is celebrating its 10th birthday this month! Ninety-six per cent of councils are signed up to LG Inform and on the 6th July the site passed the landmark figure of 4 million...
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Esther Barrott
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13 Jul 2021
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Are organisations inevitably hypocritical?
Writing in defence of hypocrisy would be like expressing sympathy for the devil, you’re not going to convince anyone that it’s anything other than despicable. And yet hypocrisy...
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Blair McPherson
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07 Jul 2021
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A CDO chat with Ben Unsworth
It’s taken a while to record the second CDO Chat video, but today I finally had the joy of an hour of Ben Unsworth‘s virtual company! Ben has done loads in digital government, including...
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Dave Briggs
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05 Jul 2021
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Stress and Burn out
Looking back it’s clear I didn’t cope well with stress. I didn’t even recognised I was stressed. I don’t know to what I attributed the frequent headaches so sever I came home from work...
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Blair McPherson
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28 Jun 2021
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Giving work Purpose and Meaning
The worst job I ever had was working in the social security office, before computerisation, matching post to case files. Every morning I was given a long list of names to locate their files....
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Blair McPherson
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25 Jun 2021
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So you think you are good at recruitment
You know the argument about whether drivers should have to retake their driving test at regular intervals well the same reasoning applies to recruitment interviews. The roads have got a lot...
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Blair McPherson
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23 Jun 2021
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The unfairness at the heart of the recruitment process.
There is an unfairness at the heart of the recruitment process which rewards those who are good at interviews above those who are good at the job. The surprise is not that the traditional...
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Blair McPherson
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23 Jun 2021
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Further opportunities to join the Centre of Expertise for Counter Fraud
Who we are The Fraud, Error Debt and Grants (FEDG) Group is a growing group of experts based in the Cabinet Office. It consists of the central hubs for three Government Functions: Counter...
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Chris Freeman
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15 Jun 2021
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How to make sure your online group gets off to a flying start
A successful online group doesn’t just spring up out of nowhere. These active online groups are the result of a carefully thought out and tested process. What are those processes that can help...
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Last updated:
07 Jun 2021
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360 degree feedback
“ Don’t ask what I think of you I might not give the answer you want me to. “ Oh Well- Fleetwood Mac.
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:
09 Jun 2021
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On Boarding getting employees on board and keeping them on board
On Boarding is management jargon for getting new employees familiar with the way we do things round here. It’s not just about the routines, tasks and knowledge it’s learning about the...
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Blair McPherson
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03 Jun 2021
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