It’s the New Year. Some people have gone back to work after the break with a heavy heart. Some have decided already that the want a new job in 2010 and will be scanning the job pages/sites as I write this.
It’s also the time for New Year Resolutions. They are about change. Change takes time .
Why do [...]
Jo at Flowing Motion commented on yesterday’s post that
“if the goal isn’t daunting, it is probably not worth pursuing”
which got me thinking.
A couple of years back I was mentor to students at Napier University . They were studying for a degree in Human Resource Management . The course was accredited by the CIPD and as part [...]
I think Steve Roesler’s post at All Things Workplace on getting things done by asking for help is great! It got me thinking about asking for help generally.
Like Steve I think there is often a feeling that to ask for help shows “weakness” and this stops people from doing so. Which is a pity.
Steve writes about [...]
In the CIPD quarterly update “Impact” two of the articles particularly interested me. Firstly one about guidance to help line managers manage stress at work more effectively. The author , Ben Willmott of the CIPD says “managing stress is, to a large extent, simply about good people management”. The other about line managers failing to support staff development where [...]
When I was in my teens I always knew when my late Grandfather started a sentence with “The youth of today..” that I was in trouble. In his view most of what was wrong with the world was down to the disrespect of young people. Thirty years on and I still hear it regularly. But [...]
