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Halloween is the season to be scared – but the workplace can be scary all year round. Sometimes those tales of horror are things you can laugh about later, others…

In the era of on-demand video, on-the-job experiential training and peer-to-peer learning, you might imagine classroom learning is dying out – but you’d be mistaken. With flexible working on the…

Soraya is one of 12 people working on a European-wide project for a financial services firm. She is one of nine working from home. Soraya’s young boys are at school…

An estimated 300,000 people lose their jobs due to mental health, costing the economy an estimated £33-42bn a year, according to the Farmer-Stevenson review. Around one in four people experience…

We’ve all received them, haven’t we? The emails that start “Per our conversation…” or “As previously stated…”. And we all know the implication too – “OI YOU! YES YOU! HAVE…

“Organizations with senior leaders who coach effectively and frequently improve their business results by 21% as compared to those who never coach.”– Bersin by Deloitte Wouldn’t we love it if…

A piece of advice can be a gem that you return to time and time again. We’ve included some of our favorites below: When public speaking, slow your normal speech…

Countless studies aim to calculate the cost of a poor recruitment decision. They vary according to the source, with the Recruitment and Employment Confederation estimating a cost of more than…

Failure to set clear performance objectives is a common mistake. Time spent agreeing specific actions at the objective setting stage will avoid disagreements about whether they have been achieved. It…

Professional behaviour in the workplace is under scrutiny. Several incidents have brought it to the fore including the sexual assault claims against film producer Harvey Weinstein and resulting social media…

We are running a free Taster for our new course “Managing Remote Workers” on 23rd February.  Remote working has increased significantly over the last decade, fuelled by technology, globalisation, the…