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Key Skills for HR Business Partners in 2010
What are people who are recruiting HR Business Partners right now – August 2010 – looking for? I looked at 20 recent job ads, in no particular order. Most job descriptions state they want strong HR generalist skills and then go on to enumerate the other qualities and evidence of relevant experience they are recruiting. You need to know a lot to be an effect…
What is authentic leadership?
Article by Larry Reynolds, please visit Larry's website for lots of great Leadership resources. Larry is facilitating 3 workshops for us: Leading Change in Turbulent Times (Birmingham and London dates) Creative Approaches to Service Delivery (Manchester) Transforming Managers into Leaders (London). There's been a lot of talk recently about authentic leadership. Authentic…
Are you a Manager or a Leader?
Take our quick self- assessment questionnaire and find out more about what your actions at work say about your preferences and how comfortable you are as either a manager or a leader. Larry Reynolds produced this questionnaire, and he runs two workshops for us - Leading Change in Turbulent Times, and Creative Approaches to Service Delivery You'll have go to our downloads section and&nb…
The Project Manager as Coach
In this interview Brenda Hales explains why she is so convinced of the power of coaching for project managers. Q. What got you interested in coaching as a way of improving performance? A. As a Project Manager, I had the experience of delivering a “successful” project (by all the time cost quality criteria) to a customer who remained resolutely “unhappy”. It…
Lean, learn and lead – recovering staff performance after corporate trauma
Cuts and efficiency drives can create problems in public sector organisations and staff need support Article written by Mike Robinson at the Berkshire Consultancy. Full details here. The Berkshire Consultancy are facilitating two workshop for us in September: Delivering Cost Reduction and Efficiency Savings in the Public Sector - click here for details Masterclass in Contra…
Lean Transformation Reading List
Some suggested titles supplied by Stephen Parry of the Lean Enterprise Institute, who runs our Lean Leadership Masterclass and Lean IT Service workshop Background reading: The Machine that Changed the World - by Womack and Jones Books with practical exercises to support your Lean Transformation: Fourth Generation Management: The New Business Consciousness - by Brian L. Joiner …
Appreciative Inquiry Reading List
This list is compiled from suggestions provided by members of the Appreciative Inquiry linkedin group. If you'd like to join this group, connect with me and I'll send you a link. Collaboration for Change:Appreciative Inquiry by Cooperrider and Whitney Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change by Cooperrider and Whitney A Positive Approach to Building Coopera…
Over one-third of grant applications are ineligible
Full article published on the Charity Times website. Constructing Winning Funding Bids - a one day masterclass, iis taking place in London and Manchester. Details here. Research by the Directory of Social Change (DSC) indicates that over one-third of applications to UK charitable grantmakers in the last year were ineligible. More than 361,000 out of a total pool of nearly one mi…