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Why You Should Make Sure Your Employees Leave Work on Time
I imagine it gets brought up most Thursday nights and every Friday morning, "having a 4 day working week would be the best", "the Netherlands are doing it" and the classic "I know I could get as much done in 4 days as I do in 5". But for some the very idea of less time in the office is completely out of the question.
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By Sophie Merryweather April 2019 |
How to create a culture in your organisation fit for the future
So what is culture and how important is it in how successful businesses are or will be? Culture defines how people interact and behave on a day to day basis so effectively culture is how people work.
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By Miriam Luke April 2019 |
5 tips for leading your people through the uncertainty of BREXIT
If there is one thing that is certain about Brexit it's that there is nothing certain about Brexit. Whether we leave on 12th April, 22nd May, some point next year, with or without a deal, in or out of a customs union, or just end up not leaving at all, whatever happens it will have an effect on business and importantly the people within them.
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By James Shimmen March 2019 |
Personality and Agile Leadership
Working with change is part of the day to day routine. We all regularly cope with change and doing things differently is now business as usual. The challenge comes with the pace of change.
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By Miriam Luke February 2019 |
Your Resolutions- Taking on 2019 Head On
We're slap bang in the middle of the classic 'new year, new me' month of January- Facebook feeds full of inspirational quotes and brand new health kick Instagram's to follow. The beginning of a New Year gives us all the inspiration to think about what we want for the future and how we can learn from the past to achieve it.
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By Sophie Merryweather January 2019 |
Ted Baker and the changing relationships in the world of work
In a world where Ted Baker makes the news lets focus on those doing the right thing and celebrate that individuals are speaking out and demanding more from their jobs.
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By Abigail Clayton December 2018 |
Pace of Change- creating the right leadership culture
All organisations are powered by technology. Technology determines how we communicate and collaborate, how we interact with our clients and how we attract our future customers.
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By Miriam Luke October 2018 |
How to make 360 degree feedback really work
Having overseen the implementation of over 20,000 360 feedback surveys across over 1000 different organisations I have learned a lot and seen a lot that works well- however I have also heard from individuals and organisations that have been put off by the poor implementation of 360 projects in the past.
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By Abigail Clayton September 2018 |
Agile- everyone's talking about it, but does anyone know what it is?
If you have been to a business conference recently, browsed LinkedIn, scanned twitter, or even just overhead people in the gym class (yes, really!) you have probably heard the term 'Agile' or 'Agile working'. So what is 'Agile'?
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By James Shimmen August 2018 |
The Changing Culture of Recruitment; transparency and Glassdoor
96% of job seekers say it's important to work for a company that embraces transparency, but transparency and honesty is not necessarily something we associate with the world of business.
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By Sophie Merryweather August 2018 |
Emotional Intelligence and the Presidency of Donald Trump
Emotional Intelligence has become a really hot topic of conversation around leadership and an organisations journey to success in the last few years. Emotional Intelligence was found to be responsible for 58% of your overall job performance, deeming it a trait to be desired in candidates and leaders alike.
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By Sophie Merryweather July 2018 |
High Performing Leaders and Making Good Teams Great
How are good teams made? It’s hard enough to build a team that's capable of performing averagely, let alone to an exceptional level. Our Client Director James Shimmen, explains while still talking football.
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By James Shimmen June 2018 |
The Importance of Individuals
Individuals are important to the success of every organisation.
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By Abigail Clayton May 2018 |
Leadership and people challenges in technology companies
Today's organisations are becoming increasingly technology dependent and technology led. So how are leaders changing the mindset, behaviour and workplace employment practices in order to be successful in the future?
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By Miriam Luke April 2018 |
How to use Psychometric Testing to Overcome New Business Challenges
Business challenges, such as employee retention and skills shortages have been around forever and as our economic climate demands change, so do our people and leaders.
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By Sophie Merryweather April 2018 |
KFC & DHL- The importance of effective planning and problem solving
As widely reported in the press a couple of weeks ago KFC had a major supply issue whereby many of their stores had to close due to a lack of chicken. Although the media storm around this has died down this continues to be an issue for the fast food chain.
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By James Shimmen March 2018 |
Developing high performing school leadership
Getfeedback's approach to leadership and management development in schools is based on extensive research. It has been designed to help individuals understand their leadership strengths and provide a view of these strengths within the team and context in which they operate.
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By Abigail Clayton March 2018 |
Feeling the Pressure
Pressure effects everyone regardless of who they are and what job they do. But what happens to people when the pressure is on? How does people's behaviour change and most importantly, how can we predict it?
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By James Shimmen February 2018 |
Recruiting School Leadership roles
Effective recruitment of high performing leaders is fundamental to a school's success. Finding people with the necessary skills, experience, qualifications and with a strong values match attributes will enable the school to deliver quality results.
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By Abigail Clayton February 2018 |
What are the future leadership and people challenges in technology?
Today's organisations are becoming increasingly technology dependent and technology led. So how are leaders changing mindset, behaviour and workplace employment practices in order to be successful in the future?
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By Miriam Luke January 2018 |
GDPR for small businesses
GDPR, the 'thing' that we have all been pushing to the end of our to do lists over the last few months but with the start of the new year just breaking and the deadline of May 2018 approaching it is now time to give this some serious thought and put an action plan in place if you haven't already.
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By Hannah Deakin January 2018 |
Making the most of the Apprenticeship Levy
One of the hot topics of conversations for HR and recruitment professionals over the last year was surrounding the apprenticeship levy, the uncertainty and its effect on UK businesses.
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By Sophie Merryweather January 2018 |
Getfeedback's Review in Numbers
Since we formed in 2000 we have had the privilege of delivering a lot of exciting and interesting work. In reviewing our achievements this year, I also took the time to reflect on the work completed since we started all that time ago.
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By Abigail Clayton December 2017 |
How Self-Awareness Can Lead to a Happier Work Life
In recent years there have been a lot of articles and studies regarding self-awareness. Much research claims that helping employees become more self-aware contributes to improving their productivity, performance and satisfaction not just in the work place but in all aspects of their life.
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By Sian Sims November 2017 |
The Challenge of 21st Century Leadership
What skills will our leaders of the future need to deliver success? Will they be different to those leadership values and behaviours that we recognise as best practise today?
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By Miriam Luke November 2017 |
ABP Reflections 2017
It was my first experience as a delegate at the Association for Business Psychology conference this year in Brentford Lock 12th & 13th of October. Two days of exploring advancements and insights into the latest research and technology within business psychology all framed with a focus on the exploration of the psychology of the dark side.
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By Abigail Clayton October 2017 |
My Top Three Innovations from The ABP Conference 2017
Simple Innovations from The Associated Business Psychology Conference
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By Miriam Luke October 2017 |
Why is a feedback culture important?
Having feedback built into your company's culture has proven to increase employee engagement which in turn increases productivity, morale and success.
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By Sophie Merryweather October 2017 |
What are your strengths?
For ability, personality and motivation online psychometrics can undoubtedly help shed light on areas of strength and preference but where should you start with regards to behavioural development?
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By Abigail Clayton September 2017 |
Choosing the Right Tool for the Job
How do you choose the right psychometric test for your people project?
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By James Shimmen August 2017 |
Brexit and the Leadership Skills Gap
It's been a year since it was confirmed the UK would be leaving the European Union and now we find ourselves thinking about the impact the decision is having on the UK's skills gap and our current recruitment difficulties.
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By Sophie Merryweather August 2017 |
How to successfully Business Partner
A pioneering approach- Many organisations are aware of WHAT they want their employees to start doing as business partners and the business benefits are clear. Our research says that leaders need help and a specific approach to successfully develop the HOW of business partnering.
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By Miriam Luke July 2017 |
What makes a great place to work?
What makes a great place to work? This is a question often asked of us when we deliver engagement surveys for clients and there’s never a simple one solution answer that works for everybody so here are Getfeedback's 3 top tips for creating a great place to work
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By James Shimmen July 2017 |
Power to the people
Discover that THE biggest factors in a projects success are communication and honesty-Improving performance by honestly engaging individuals
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By Abigail Clayton June 2017 |
Recruiting and retaining Millennials
Any longstanding business will tell you the most effective way of saving money and energy is through attracting and retaining the right talent for your business- so, what's changed with age and what you need to be doing to keep up?
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By Sophie Merryweather June 2017 |
