I spent yesterday in conversation with leaders - on the topic of leadership. Earlier this week at the launch of the Edinburgh HR Academy our table discussions were about employee “wellbeing”. In both the issue of engaging and engaged employees came up. You don’t  have to Google “employee engagement” to realise that it is a […]

One of the favourite New Year resolutions is to lose weight.
It made me smile when I read results of some research that NY resolutions rarely work. A tiny proportion of people succeed in keeping to them as far as the end of January. What a suprise.
Personally I think resolutions have more chance of succeeding if you […]

I was interested in the press reporting of the proposed change in the way that the welfare benefit paid to people who are deemed to be unable to work is assessed. Up til now it appears  that it was measured largely on what a person could not do .Check out this report from the BBC on the story.
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I just had lunch with a good friend Craig. If there was ever a man with a “can do” attitude he is it.  A couple of years ago he walked to the South Pole. Today he was telling me about his new baby - a sea kayak which he has had built from scratch. The company […]

It’s Sunday and I have been reading the papers. I read an article by Suzy Greaves entitled “How to make peace with yourself” in which she advocates learning to live with odd socks. For all of us who have promised to become “more organised” to improve our quality of life this really struck a chord.
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