When is it OK to badmouth your employer? Here are some suggestions -
On your Facebook page – it’s your own private place after all and everybody is entitled to a private life
In the bar – loudly – at the end of a stressful week because offloading is healthy!
In an interview with a potential new employer [...]
Last week, when I was working with a group of managers , we got down to the nitty gritty of the difference between good and bad managers. Split into 2 groups the participants wrote down a list of good and bad.
The underlying theme was that good managers communicate well and bad managers don’t.
Obvious isn’t it?
But [...]
A post over at the excellent Ask A Manager blog caught my attention. A manager blows up – in front of customers – to berate an employee for calling him to ask for a break.
We all know that there are some managers out there who are not up to their job. And there are many [...]
One of the joys of working the way I do is that I get to travel to many parts of the country. This is marginally less enjoyable when I have to drive though – my strong preference is to take the bus or train. Today I needed to be in a school near ( but [...]
I posted about about Kim Cameron’s Personal Management Interview Programme last week as the idea seemed simple and full of potential. Following this I read this post from Don Ledingham’s Learning Log. Don is Acting Director of Education and Childrens’ Services for East Lothian – a beautiful area to the east of Edinburgh and where we lived [...]
