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The dreaded Annual Appraisal. Is the writing finally on the wall?

At last! Could the end finally be in sight for that annual ritual dreaded by both managers and staff: the Annual Appraisal? You know the one: the meeting you both hope will be over quickly, in which the manager loads up her gun with lots of surprise feedback ready...

Can’t write, can’t spell, can’t count. (My gadget does it for me.)

Communication, Life Skills

Last week I learnt that yet another nail has been banged into the coffin of human society as we currently know it. The thin end of a very big wedge has just been inserted into the way we communicate. Old farts such as myself fear this one will bring us a step closer...

Greek debt negotiations: how not to do it?

Leadership Skills Training, Negotiations

The Greek government has until Wednesday night to approve a set of measures which appear to this simple non-financier outsider to be wholly unreasonable and unworkable, otherwise it gets shown the Grexit door and European unity is a thing of the past. Millions of...

How not to delegate.

Leadership Skills Training, Management Skills

As Christmas approaches and stores fill up with scary amounts of extra stock that they hope will all magically vanish by Christmas Eve, I find myself thinking about the time when I was put in charge of stock ordering for a major business. They delegated to me too...

Is being negative such a bad thing?

Business Skills Training, Communication

Last week I met someone who I think I can safely say was one of the most negative people I have ever met. I spent much of a day with him during one of our Musikscool events. He was 15: polite, well dressed, articulate, and with an outlook on life which shocked me so...

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The dreaded Annual Appraisal. Is the writing finally on the wall?

Can’t write, can’t spell, can’t count. (My gadget does it for me.)

Greek debt negotiations: how not to do it?

How not to delegate.

Is being negative such a bad thing?

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