We hope you are enjoying the warm weather and getting ready for summer holidays. We often find summer in Learning & Development is a time for taking stock, planning and ensuring development programmes are in place for September as the main holiday period ends.
This year we have beaten the rush …
It probably hasn’t escaped your notice that there has been much comment recently about making workplaces more ‘human’. Most thinkers agree that appreciating people for their talents and uniqueness, rather than trying to shoehorn them into a role is the current best practice; ruling with command and control is old …
Watch out for the Skew!
Sometimes I need to remind clients what they can expect from a 360 report. Any questionnaire or psychometric tool or can only give you a snapshot of what people were thinking at the time they answered the questions. This should be blindingly obvious, but many of …
Many of us are programmed to brush off praise, barely letting it enter our psyche. When given some criticism though, we thoroughly dissect it, focus a huge amount of energy on thinking about it again and again, often going round in circles. I see it in myself when …
I’ve just come across a Forbes article called ‘Why 360 programs fail’. Of course, much of the time they are highly successful development tools – but it’s always useful to understand why sometimes a project works when at other times it fails. Can Forbes help us here? Here’s the …
