Blogs

This blog, is the fourth and final one on the creative competencies - SURROUNDINGS. How do you make your surroundings more conducive to being creative?

I suppose we should start with what we mean by surroundings:

• Your workspace
• Your thinking space
• The pe

Hi all,

I've put up a few blogs and discussion posts recently about the training vacancies that I had coming up..

Well, things have moved on a bit. In fact, it's all come to fruition and I've had the enjoyable experience of ringing the successful ones

Happy New Year - not 1 but 2 blogs from me to start the year - this one is around what I consider to be a most useful (and bodacious) playlist of apps.  These are aimed at those studying for Human Resource and People Management programmes but applies

So I find myself in a shop where I can utilise my new NUS card and suddenly feel very conscious about using it! I start thinking about how are they going to perceive this. What is she doing with this, she's too old are all thoughts that start going t

Last week, Jo Swinson, MP and the Minister for Employment Relations, confirmed that the Government’s plans for shared parental leave had come through consultation and were being included in the Children and Families Bill which will come into law in 2

My latest blogs have been around the subject of creativity and how to improve your own, by looking deeper at Epstein's definite of the 4 creative competencies

Just to remind you, these are: challenging, broadening, capturing and surroundings. So it go

In this series of blogs, I am exploring the 4 creative competencies, as defined by Dr. Robert Epstein.

Yesterday I looked at "Challenging"  - which was all about learning from your failures.

Today I will concentrate on "Capturing", which is all about r

So this blog is about my very first public speaking next week. If you haven’t heard yet, I’ve been one of a few people selected to do a presentation at the Learning Technology/Learning & Skills event on the 29^th and 30^th January.

IGNITE is a fun event

Tomorrow is a busy day for me, and several of the staff in my organisation.

Tomorrow, we will be holding a shortlisting day for our trainee selection process. We've whittled down from over 100 applications to 30 that we think might be right for the ro

You may have already heard from CIPD direct about the changes they are making to the upgrading process- from student member to associate membership? But I wanted to make sure all DPG participants had been given this great message as soon as CIPD perm

Moving on from my last blog, I will be exploring further  Robert Epsteins 4 creative competencies...... in this one we will be looking at ......

....CHALLENGING - seeking out opportunities to fail - this can help boost your creativity!

In a blog last w

Recently, I am focusing on a project: pension automatic enrolment. Our company will start the auto enrolment of pension on 1^st of Jan, 2014. In last few months, I received many questions from our employees about the scheme. To help others in the sim

 I mentioned in recent discussion about establishing a local network by going along to an event near you. I attended an ACAS employment law update that I found really useful.

Well, happy to report that I can now go one better as networking opportuniti

Letters starting "Important changes to your..." rarely deliver good news.

However, today's letter from the CIPD - informing me that following my sucessful completion of my qualification i will now be AUTOMATICALLY awarded Associate membership - has ma

If you are a Learning and Development professional, here’s a question for you – when was the last time you underwent some training yourself? Considering the amount of training we book for our clients, it never ceases to amaze us how little we end up

From the age of 5 until round about 60 we become less creative, according to research. So is this inevitable or is there something we can do about it?

Dr. Robert Epstein talked about the four creative competences and even has suggested that we can imp

I guess most of us feel a little wary of diving into the big World of HR events, perhaps because we are all students (got my NUS card already!) and feel a little bit worried about being out of our depth when the talk starts to turn to the 'heavy' stu

Hi All,

Hope you are all well and looking forward to Christmas.

Just before I close down for Christmas, I wanted to share this with you.  Given how much this has helped me out, I'm hoping it will be of some use to other parents out there.

I've been on a

I am delivering Situational Leadership as a 1 day session when in the past I am used to 2 days. Be happy to chat with any trainers who have done this and what key messages to you keep in.

Also, any good tactics to engage a group of people who, initial

This is the third of my series of blogs on creativity. The story so far..... we have covered CHALLENGING (learning through failure) ...... CAPTURING (making sure we don't lose those ideas .... and today we will