The world of business is complicated at the best of times and it seems pretty clear to me that we are not in the best of times at the moment. I was thinking about how we work together – as individuals, employees and businesses and I wanted to share this story with you.
In my portfolio of [...]
I have been keeping up with the Scottish Learning Festival stories from various sources. John Connell mentions the work of Charles Leadbetter and I need to find out more as I am intrigued by the explanation that John gives that according to Leadbetter today’s young people are
“….a generation infused with an attitude of ‘I can’, [...]
I was interested to learn about a recent initiative by Strathclyde Police in tackling gangs and related knife crime. According to a report on the radio yesterday they have police cadets – young people aged 16 who are interested in joining the police – to search bebo and youtube – looking for postings which can be [...]
According to an article by Martyn Sloman in the CIPD quarterly update “Impact” here in the UK
“only” 20% of organisations use Web 2.0 technologies for recruitment purposes
in a survey of 1700 employers 79% had disciplined one or more staff for using social networking sites during work time
in that same survey many had banned the use of [...]
The young people I have been coaching through the project for Oracle have included their story in the final presentation to the client.
In the early stages, when things were a bit – *ahem* - chaotic ,I pointed them to Tuckman’s “Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing” theory (amongst others) and I was delighted to find that they [...]
