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The Power of Politeness…

As we get into the new financial year it might be an idea to re-visit simple things in order to be more effective. Things like … being polite! What do you think of when you think of a manager? Often people think of the manager as being their key support to enable them to get…

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Getting Creative

We meet many people, and young people, who are bored. For many this is an affectation, but a dangerous one, that can easily become a full time state of mind. At the weekend I was at an Open Fencing tournament where my son competed. One of the top fencers there confided to me, after he…

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Business students face the Dragons

With a new series of Dragons’ Den starting this summer, business students at Bournemouth University got a taste of how it feels to pitch to the panel. “The Simulated Business Experience is a core, required Year Two course on all our business programmes,” says Dr Dave Richards of the University’s Business School. “The point of…

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Relieving Negative Self Talk

Everyone at some time or another experiences negative self talk. Why is this and what should be do about it? The first character who speaks in the Bible is God: at Genesis 1 v 3 God says, “Let there be light”, and there was. This is a pattern of God’s language: he frequently speaks in…

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The Standards debate

A recent debate on the IOD Linkedin Forum asked whether Investors in People and ISO 9000 et al were a total waste of time and effort. Good question! Ever since the ‘Standards’ were formulated practitioners and clients have been wrestling with this problem. I cannot speak about ISO as I was never a practitioner, but…

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