It’s not often that you get the gift of honest face-to-face feedback, mainly because it’s rare to find someone who is open and direct enough to do so.
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Communication
Current discussions online seem to indicate that numeric and graphic elements in reports are going out of fashion. Text-based feedback is in vogue.
Dave Hall, CEO of HFL Sports Science, reflects on his experience of the Highlands Ability Battery and the ‘Aha!’ moment it unveiled:
The HAB experience is an intense one – challenging the complete set of faculties to expose natural tendencies within operational, interpersonal and management styles. Familiar already with many (more simplistic) psychometric testing regimes and [...]
In our efforts to achieve work-life balance, we all accept a bit of work bleeding into our non-work lives. But how does this vary with seniority?
Squaring a Circle
I run creativity sessions, helping people to use creative, off the wall ways to gain new insights or potential solutions to difficult problems. I will always see the big picture and I tend to treat the details as irrelevant.
Engaging employees is our big thing.
But our readers fall into two distinct groups – and the stuff they want to read about isn’t always the same.
We all know about criticism and the damage it can do to us – to our confidence and self esteem. But what is criticism and how is it different to feedback?
Alchemy for Managers Weekly Tip – guest post from Paul Matthews.
We all make grammatical mistakes from time to time, both in our everyday speech and in our writing.
Writing that is littered with glaring mistakes in grammar and punctuation, however, gives the impression that the writer can’t be bothered and is lazy, sloppy and, perhaps, [...]
“You do birds with broken wings” – this message came in an email from an old friend with whom I have discussed many knotty issues over the years. Having known each other for a couple of decades, we’ve had many opportunities for the sort of conversations that help to unravel complex problems, both personal and [...]
It’s worth watching this short video about the way Twitter is being used to compliment and enhance learning in the History Department at University of Texas.
Anything that enables people to share ideas, and enjoy the process, is a winner as far as I’m concerned. We’d love to know if you’ve done something different with Twitter. [...]