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At what point can you say you have learned something?
“I learned something today…” Did you really? Like really learned it? We often take the idea of learning and having learned for granted and frequently make a series of rather large and unquestioned assumptions about at what point we can actually say someone has learned something. The evaluation of learning in many organisations, including our universities […]
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Levels of Organisational Development – Level 3
Level 3 of the 6 levels of organisational development is the integration stage of organisational development This post continues from: The Levels of Organisational Development- Level 1 or the Formation Stage, and Levels of Organisational Development – Level 2 – The formalisation stage of organisational development In this post I look at Level 3 of the 6 stages […]
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Levels of Organisational Development – Level 2
This post follows on from The Levels of Organisational Development. In that post I explored Level 1 or the Formation Stage of the six levels of organisational development. In this post I will look in a bit more detail at level 2 – The formalisation stage of organisational development: Level 2: Formalisation Stage The distinctive […]
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Authentic Leadership and Being Authentic – What does that mean anyway?
Being authentic The leadership, management and personal development literature and lore is repleat with appeals and even demands for authenticity. Management and leadership courses, consultants and coaches extol the virtues of how to be authentic and genuine. It sounds good but what are we really asking for here? What do we actually mean by being […]
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If I was to tell you that some recent research ( Levels of organisational development ) has been able to analyse and describe exactly where an organisation is at any moment in time, and where it should be heading next? Useful eh? Well it has been done. Over the next few weeks I will delve into […]
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How to teach empathy : New research
Is empathy just part of our personality or can it be taught / learned? Many organisations have empathy as part of their values or competencies with little consideration about whether it can be developed and if it can, how to teach empathy or how to develop it. The closest many organisations get to […]
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How our mood (and productivity) is directly affected by different forms of communication at work
A wide range of things affect our mood and productivity at work. A new study has found that that there is a direct connection between our mood and the modes of communication we use at work. A team of computer scientists have used technology to anonymously measure the psychological states of a group of workers […]
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Why evidence-based practice probably isn’t worth it…
The evidence-based practice problem… There is a big problem with evidence-based practice and why evidence-based practice isn’t worth it for most people… As a pedlar of evidence based practice this post hasn’t been an easy one to write but after years of work in this area, and having a service based around evidence based practice, I […]
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Do workplace resilience programmes actually work? New research
Workplace resilience programmes During times of significant change in organisations, for example during downsizing and mergers, many companies around the world have instituted workplace resilience programmes to guide their employees through the turbulent times of change. There has been a number of evaluations and papers published about the success of these programmes but much of […]
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The Torch is lit – Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse
Interest in extremes and crisis (as well as Apocalypse) has rarely been higher than it is today. This spans across many domains including environmental, political, social, technological, business, economic and legal spheres of life. With uncertainty (my research topic) and conflict appearing to be ever present these days Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse are areas of […]
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