I have to talk about this topic, and raise my voice for all those who work in a toxic environment, where one individual in a role can (sometimes a senior role) act like a jerk, a twat, a donkey (no offence to donkeys!) and sets the atmosphere, culture within the...
One-Third of Providers Received At Least One ‘Insufficient Progress’ Ofsted Rating Since March. The idea of developing your workforce with a hybrid; at work, external provider solution sounds rewarding for your organisation and the employee, so why is this not the...
It seems the last twelve to eighteen months has seen the Remote Working v People Engagement debate appear as the ‘buzz’ conversation within HR. There are those who have found remote working and the lifestyle change it brings refreshing, and then there are those, on...
Having worked in many diverse industries over fifteen years, I have learnt a lot from listening to thousands of people describe what they value at work. Organisations often put their values on walls and then embed those values through competency-based appraisals,...
One-to-ones, the scourge of innovation, the destroyer of feeling valued and a complete waste of time! Do you think that one-to-ones have become a time-wasting session that does no more than fill in the ‘tick list’ of compliance. Or even worse, you no...
Apprenticeships that are as Individual as You are The New Age of Management Apprenticeships. At a time when management performance has been identified as the biggest factor in boosting productivity, there is an urgent need for UK employers to raise their game when it...
In the film, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Gus Portokalos, the father of Toula, is always explaining that every known word has it’s origins from the Greek language. Now being a Greek Cypriot myself I am patriotic about the Greek language. If you have not seen the...
There has always been four elements of leadership that successful people show time and time again and in this series I’m going to expand on what those four elements of leadership are as well as the subsequent four facets that each element has. Empedocles was a...
Have you ever worked in an environment where you’re focused on too many things and everything seems blurred? We are going to look at working on a few things and doing them with excellence. So that what you execute is done sharply, concisely and everyone in the...
Have you ever worked in an environment where it just feels toxic and you don’t feel you can actually work in that environment? What you might be observing in people around you, is toxic leadership, In this blog I’ll give you and overview of what the four...
