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Help your organisation in its progress to diversity and inclusion compliance – take this very quick pulse test of your organisation’s D&I status.
Take this 5 minute pulse test of your organisation’s D&I status. This questionnaire is based on a diversity and inclusion development framework. It enables you to rate your organisation’s performance against a set of 15 attributes. It will help your organisation in its progress to diversity and inclusion compliance. You will get a score of your organisation’s rating by return.
Group non-managerial supervision, a guest blog from Jonathan Block
In several professions, we do not ‘look after’ our most valuable, and dare I say expensive, human resource. Senior leaders under tremendous pressure are left to cope on their own. Some can. Some can but at a great expense to themselves and maybe colleagues with whom...
How do you handle conflict at work?
There are many reasons why conflict occurs at work and what boils over into an actual stand up argument may just be a symptom not the cause. Whilst individual differences can be a profound source of friction and discontent – much must be down to poor leadership and management. Approaches to understanding and managing conflict have many dependencies; personal, social, organisational, cultural and national. But there are some universal aspects that underpin these individual differences.
Can you tell the difference between mentoring, coaching and supervision? Does it matter? Read on…
Ways to support your colleagues or get support for yourself
How to manage meetings! Don’t have them?
It might seem strange that a website dedicated to sharing management techniques and that has a considerable amount of material explaining how to run, facilitate or just cope with meetings could suggest such management heresy as to abandon formal meetings, but read on…
Are you willing to put your organisation’s diversity & inclusion (D&I) strategy and actions to the test?
Review your organisation’s diversity and inclusion D&I strategy and actions.
See how they stack up against the PeopleMax Index – a quick, clear & simple open access D&I benchmarking tool.
Plus it is free. This tool will help you review and assess your organisation’s current D&I status.
The framework will help you build your organisation’s D&I performance. The initial review will take no more that 15 minutes!
The career toolkit
The transition from student and graduate to an early career employee is a profound one,
we can help the graduate prepare for that first job interview. Get in touch!
Getting a job
This week we are focusing on preparing for that first job. We will start with a career audit - what do you want to do? Follow up by devising your strategy for your career and how you will seek a job and network. Then construct an effective CV / Resume that you can...
What can we trust and whom can we trust?
This week we have added a short piece ... 5 mins on Trust. What does it mean to you? Do you trust? Is it an absolute? Or, do you only trust someone as far as you can throw 'em? Is it different at work to you personal life? Are the thresholds different between home and...
Coaching for Academic Performance
We are in difficult times and sustaining academic research is challenging - we can help Contact us for coaching sessions on your undergraduate or post graduate dissertation studies. We won't write the work for you but we will guide you through the stages of scoping,...