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University of Winchester Physio Programme
University of Winchester Physiotherapy Revalidation Stakeholder Event The Physiotherapy Programme will be revalidating during 2023 and as part of this process we will be holding a...
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katie castle
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17 Jun 2022
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Do we need a Superhero?
Why this obsession with superheroes are ordinary heroes no longer up to the job? Well what chance us mere managers. How many superheroes can you list? It used to be that there was ...
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Blair McPherson
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13 Jun 2022
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Making your mind up
If you want to change someone’s mind ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers and share your own story. But be warned the person describing how to do this considers it to be so...
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Blair McPherson
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11 Jun 2022
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When managers lose it big time.
May be you were just the unlucky person who picked up the phone but the manager on the other end is angry, very angry with HR. Perhaps something has gone wrong in the recruitment process, maybe...
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Blair McPherson
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09 Jun 2022
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Exceptionalism
The idea that this new thing won’t work here because our circumstances, population profile, unique history, political make up, levels of deprivation, industrial past, prevailing culture, are so...
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Blair McPherson
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31 May 2022
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Leadership like a submarine
Rarely seen, silent on most issues, assumed to be getting on with it, ignoring what’s going on around them, isolated from the rest of the world/organisation. But requiring us to trust them. Not...
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Blair McPherson
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28 May 2022
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So how do your managers treat the cleaners when no one is looking?
A lack of respect and poor treatment. Totally Ignored as if invisible. Subjected to derogatory sexual comments. Sworn at. Treated with contempt. Expected to clean up vomit and spilt wine...
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Blair McPherson
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27 May 2022
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In charge but not in control
Who is in charge is a question that comes up a lot at work in all types of organisations. At one stage in my management career I was responsible for 83 Nursing and Residential care Homes....
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Blair McPherson
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26 May 2022
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The best career advice I have been given
It’s interesting to hear what those at the top of organisations say about the best career advice they were given. Although on reading some of that advice I think if the individual followed it...
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Blair McPherson
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25 May 2022
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Why we use metaphors and when we shouldn’t.
Metaphors are used to capture attention and explain complex things by comparing them to something familiar to the audience. The business metaphors chosen often have nothing new to say and are...
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Blair McPherson
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19 May 2022
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Swimming in rough seas
It’s about working in a difficult environment, finding strong forces working against you and having to use up a lot of energy to make slow progress. This can happen in any organisation at any...
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Blair McPherson
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17 May 2022
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Can robots have a sense of humour? And would we find it funny?
In Catch 22 wounded officers in hospital are given enlisted men’s letters to redact of any sensitive military detail. Some of the letters are to girl friends back home and are very sexually...
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Blair McPherson
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09 May 2022
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Gogglebox
People watching other people watch television! Celebrity Gogglebox. People watching celebrities watching television. I read the,”inspiration “ for Gogglebox came from the innovative comedy,The ...
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Blair McPherson
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09 May 2022
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The state of things and status of Queuing
Queuing is never far from the headlines these days but usually it’s about the waiting lists for NHS operations, the length of waiting times in A&E or the queuing of ambulances outside...
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Blair McPherson
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06 May 2022
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It’s Shangri-la and you are the legend at its centre
“ Where everyone of us has the chance to make a mark and shape the future. Where senior managers are a catalyst for this change. Energising the people who can make it happen. At the...
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Blair McPherson
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07 Jun 2022
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Snooze and you lose
Those who need five hours or less sleep a night are more successful than those who need eight hours or more. Less sleep gives you more time to do things and being more productive makes you...
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Blair McPherson
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09 May 2022
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Prove you are not a robot
It says much about modern society that a computer requires me to prove I am not a computer to progress with an interaction! If computers need help to distinguish between humans and...
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Blair McPherson
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17 May 2022
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Spread it thinly
It was a debate between the merits of butter v margarine in terms of a healthy diet. The dairy farmer argued butter was a totally natural product so had to be better for you. His counterpart argued...
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Blair McPherson
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02 Jan 2023
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Is the juice worth the squeeze?
Post pandemic and the Great Resignation people are even more likely to turn down the opportunity of a management/senior management post because of inadequate resources , unrealistic targets...
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Blair McPherson
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15 Apr 2022
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Heard but quickly forgotten
To those who don’t want feedback. To those who avoid training. To those who say I have been doing the job for years there’s nothing you could tell me I don’t already know. To those who claim...
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Blair McPherson
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12 Apr 2022
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