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In praise of project managers

A new day - I’m not frightened,Though the budget has tightenedAnd the client is grating my nerves.Black coffee and toastWill prepare me for mostOf today’s little sidesteps and swerves.First job, email...

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Lipstick and Heels at the Bank

Oh dear. Oh dear, dear, dear. You've all heard about this right? The Bank of England 'sent' their female folk to a "Dress for Success" seminar. Then someone leaked the memo reminding all the girls how...

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Engaging Freelancers

Just recently a couple of people have asked me for my thoughts on engaging freelance employees. I'm not surprised they're asking. As our economy relies more and more on flexible resources, so the way...

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Happiness at Work - Podcast

I've just listened to this fantastic podcast by Alexander Kjerulf and I think you should too. The man just talks good sense!http://is.gd/gywpMy favourite quotes:"Two things make us happy at work,...

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Girl's Guide to Employment

Just come across this brilliant advice on employment for women, written in the 1916 Girl Scouts manual - How Girls Can Help Their Country.This really made me smile at how things change. The list of...

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The Factory in the Garden

Goodness, apparently the Cadbury Brothers understood the importance of work/life balance and an enjoyable working environment way back in 1879! Just found this lovely little post on Cadbury's new blog...

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Getting it Right - ?What If! Innovation

A couple of weeks ago I went to see ?What If! The Innovation Company. I’ve been a fan of their work ever since I was lucky enough to benefit from their creativity training back in 2001 – training which...

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Closed loop communications

Oh dear, oh dear. It would appear that I haven't blogged since April and it's now nearly the end of July. I think that counts as procrastination don't you?So then, a quick post (when procrastinating my...

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Shoot your employees and get away with it

Errrrr... someone sent me this and suggested I blog about it. The thing is I have no idea what to say. It's a clip of TASER testing its wares on its employees. Its hideous. But there's a tiny part of...

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Crystal clear

The other day I found myself standing in a wedding shop, tiara in hand, bridal shoe on foot, left to sort myself out while the shop assistant went off to answer the phone.I didn't mind too much, I'm...

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Shouting in capitals

This article from the BBC interested me.'...A New Zealand woman has lost her accounting job after sending "confrontational" emails filled with block capitals. So why is it taboo to hit the caps-lock...

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Innovation Beehive interview with Kursty Groves

Michael O Keefe over at Innovation Beehive has just done an interview with Kursty Groves, author of, 'I Wish I Worked There'. There are some great insights, but it's this one that really catches my eye...

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Engaging for Success

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has commissioned a report on the importance of employee engagement in helping Britain out deep, dark recession. This accessible and well-written...

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The 25th Hour

The 25th Hour is a brilliant nationwide campaign which aims to use the motivational power of the 2012 Olympic Games in London to inspire a surge in volunteers to help communities around the UK.The idea...

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Practice makes it easy peasy

In a final acceptance that zero exercise probably isn't good for me, I went to my first ever Zumba class yesterday. Other than teaching me the merengue, this amazing class had a few other timely...

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Engaging events

More and more frequently I'm being asked to knit together the two sides of my professional personality and advise on engagement in events. Which makes sense, given what an amazing channel live...

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Don't underestimate the girl on till 4

A 60 second exchange between two girls behind the tills at Waitrose yesterday reminded me that you can never can tell what someone's real skills are. Girl A - "How was your break?"Girl B - "What...

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Communication for Inspiration : Give your team Obama skills

Yesterday I read the following irritated tweet from an editor at one of the national newspapers. ‘My desk phone is broken. IT man has taken it away. And a replacement? "Oh, we haven't got any"....

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Bad news can be inspiring

A couple of weeks ago I got an email from Posterous who I have a (totally unused) blog account with. The email was a very well worded apology that their servers had been hit by Denial of Service...

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Work Space Design - An interview with trifle creative*

We all know instinctively that the space around us affects how well and how happily we do things in it. Anyone who has ever tried to join the Mile High Club in an aeroplane lavatory knows this to be...

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Assume Nothing!

Last week, I attained the right honourable position of Judge Samantha Lizars. Only for about 2 hours admittedly, and not actually in a court room. Rather in a classroom, for one of the London heats of...

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Agility

This is what's on my mind this morning. Businesses the world over name agility as one of their 'core values' and many more reference it in their client spiel. It's quite hard to achieve though, as...

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Internal Comms and the Social Media Revolution

This article from Marketing Week caught my eye this week. Coca Cola are launching a new internal social network, as a mechanism to support their global employee base in staying connected. Sainsbury’s...

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You say tomato, I say tomato

Just read this great post on HBR about the challenges of running a multi-cultural team; particularly when combining people used to an eastern culture with people used to a western culture. I have to...

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Engagement in what?

Writing for The Guardian, this article by Ivan Robertson discusses the importance of employee engagement in difficult economic times. It's the second half of the article that really got my attention,...

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