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This months spotlight focuses on:
- Gamification
- Cloud-based HR Systems
- Management Apprenticeships
- Employee Engagement Vs Employee Experience
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This months spotlight focuses on:
- Developing digital content
- Study leave
- Collaborative working between departments
- Employee engagement surveys
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When you think about it, no organisational failure of any magnitude can come as a surprise. Someone, somewhere, was aware that things were not right. Yet those people either did not say anything or their concerns were ignored.
For instance, remembe
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A talking head is defined as “A person, especially a news reporter, an interviewer, an expert, etc., who appears on tele
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I
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If you are supremely confident, you might respond quickly, “Of course!” If you are more modest or less confident
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Perhaps I
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The first was actually a very constructive piece, “Cultivating Continuous Improv
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