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Top 10 Tips for… Leading Change Successfully

Unfortunately change is often as unpopular as it is inevitable. People don’t like change – they fear it and feel threatened by it. As a result, any leader who wants to implement a change programme successfully needs to plan carefully...

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Managing Change in a Small Business

Managing Change in a Small Business Until I set up a small business, my experience of managing change had been within large public sector organisations where it often felt like a massive task to work through, planning and implementing best...

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Only as good as your team!

Only as good as your team! You’ve got the right people in the right roles and your team is good to go, but what next? Your job in leading a team is to get the best out of each individual,...

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Industry News

Industry News In 2013, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Management (APPGM) set out to investigate how management and leadership in the UK would need to change by 2020 in order to deliver sustainable economic growth. The Commission on the Future...

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Top 10 Tips for… Building effective relationships with line managers

Top 10 Tips for… Building effective relationships with line managers Here are our top 10 tips: 1. Give them the right tools If you want line managers to handle many of the day-to-day people management tasks, you need to make...

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Why choose to be a manager or a leader when you can do both?

Why choose to be a manager or a leader when you can do both? Do you aspire to be a great manager or an inspired leader? If you pick up a text book on leadership or management, it may well...

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Top 10 Tips for… Managing Attendance

Top 10 Tips for… Managing Attendance  Have a clear absence reporting procedure that employees need to follow when they cannot attend work.  Carry out Return to Work Conversations with each employee for each absence.  Training managers in how to do...

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Top 10 Thoughts on… Leadership

Top 10 Thoughts on… Leadership Leadership is not entirely about what you do, it’s more about what you encourage, empower and inspire others to do. Encourage and teach people to focus on solutions not problems. Avoid trying to resolve all...

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The Place for Love in the Workplace

The Place for Love in the Workplace Valentine’s Day is the day when we show those we love that we appreciate them and care about them.  Traditionally we associate it with girlfriends and boyfriends, husbands and wives but I think...

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A White Lie a Day …

A White Lie a Day … In an ideal world workplace ethics guide employees and organisations and provide a reference point for identifying if an individual has acted unethically.  In the main we like to feel that individuals at all...

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