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Breakfast briefings - they work!

 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

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A Comedy of Errors

 

I have a confession to make…yesterday I made a mistake. Yep, there I said it.  I made a mistake.  It wasn’t a big one or massively important in the grand scheme of things but it was embarrassing as it was picked up by a Head of Service (who was ver

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Too old for an NUS Card?

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

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Creativity vs. Innovation - a fair fight?

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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

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Increasing your Creativity #3

Give your creative super powers a boost!
Give your creative super powers a boost!

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

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Increasing your creativity #2

20131124-200559.jpg?width=270In 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

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Increasing your creativity #1

20131124-200559.jpg?width=270Moving 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

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Looking back on 2013

During a weekend break in Portugal with a few pals, I came across a message board in bar that was up for punters to scrawl their name, date and other rude obscenities on. In amongst all the nonsense, was this bit of inspiration - ‘2013 was good but 2

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Letters starting "Important changes to your..."

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

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Learning and Developing Learning and Development

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

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