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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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Emma-Ruth Arnaz-Pemberton
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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
Last updated:
25 Jun 2021
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