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Monthly Archives: August 2018
Monthly Archives: August 2018
Why management and leadership development should be focussing on practice intelligence. Fourteen years ago this year Henry Mintzberg published his book ‘Managers not MBAs: A hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development‘, in which Mintzberg challenged the prevailing view that the recipient of the MBA was by default not only […]
Read moreHow managers and leaders create paradoxes at work Messages and orders from leaders and managers create a world of meaning in organisations. Often however the messages managers and leaders unintentionally send out frequently create a paradox i.e. inconsistencies, uncertainties and ambiguity that defy or counter the prevailing logic within the organisation. These in effect, create […]
Read moreIn this Month’s Oxford Review: Does being clear about your own emotions help you to have greater empathy? Why talent management and industrial–organisational (I-O) psychology has a big problem Lean is harder to implement and the results worse than people usually expect at first What does engagement really mean? The impact of organisational values and […]
Read moreDevelop your staff In my last post I explored the most frequent use our members make of our research briefings which is for CPD purposes.In this article I want to look at how to use The Oxford Review to develop your staff, leaders and managers. The second most frequent use of our research briefings by […]
Read moreHow organisations obstruct their own change: The case of introducing motivational interviewing to reduce sickness absence A new study looks at the experiences an organisation had of introducing a new working method which shines a light on how organisations unwittingly obstruct their own organisational change. The Swedish Social Insurance Agency introduced a new tool, ‘motivational […]
Read moreThe weekly research briefings, videos, podcasts and infographics are used as the basis for many people’s CPD. I recently conducted a survey of our members to see how they are using the weekly research briefings, video research briefings, infographics, special reports and podcasts from the Oxford Review. What we found was really interesting as members […]
Read moreAre workshops and class based learning events really effective? What evidence is there for the transfer of learning into the workplace from such learning interventions? A new study has examined whether there is real transfer of learning from workshop simulations and learning to ‘real-time’ workplace practice and problem solving. The study, took an in-depth look at […]
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