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People Development

Training and development of people including schemes and funding

Coaching delivers strategic benefits to Senior Executives

Richard Garwell on 2022-05-06 Coaching and mentoring are two distinct methods of skills development and personal development that senior leaders can use to support their professional and personal growth. There can be confusion around the meaning of both titles, and they are often used interchangeably in conversation. A simple distinction is that mentoring is the direct transfer or sharing Read More...

Managing the job performance

Richard Garwell on 2021-03-06 Once a new employee has begun their new employment and received their basic induction they should possess knowledge and understanding necessary to perform their job role. Read More...

Making individual employee performance issues discussable

Wilson Lee on 2017-02-07 What constitutes effective and ineffective performance is usually well understood collectively within organisations but it is not always discussable because it has not been specified in a form that makes it safe for managers to confront Read More...

The Four Stages of Competence

Richard Garwell on 2015-05-01 How many times do you drive to a destination and have little recollection of the journey? I know when I first got in a car to drive I was aware of everything I couldn’t do. Trying to release the clutch whilst depressing the accelerator seemed nigh on impossible without lurching the car forward. You could Read More...

Management Styles – Which are you?

Richard Garwell on 2015-03-17 Management Styles are important and need to be appropriate to the organisation. Democratic Autocratic Paternalistic Consulting and Hippy are styles. Read More...

Nine Signs of Excellent Job Performance

Richard Garwell on 2014-10-08 Generally a good or excellent employee performance is where the employee consistently meets or exceeds the standard of performance required Read More...

Six reasons employees might be proud to work for your business

Wilson Lee on 2013-03-07 Six good reasons why you might be proud to work for your current employer. Start a conversation line with us and let us know a good reason why you are proud of working where you do. Read More...

Practical Health and Safety in action

Alastair Inskip on 2012-04-25 Risk assessment gets bad press because people make more of it than they need. The Health and Safety Executive say they don’t want to see files of paperwork, just simple identification of what can happen and then appropriate management of the risk. Read More...

What makes a good manager?

Wilson Lee on 2011-06-21 Know your personality type helps you be a good manager Myers Briggs Read More...

Share ownership in Family Businesses

Wilson Lee on 2011-06-12 Keeping the family and shareholding separate is important to the health of the business and the family Read More...