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It won’t make any difference anyway! Definitely not with that attitude! This belief is unfortunately heard far too often within the corporate environment. Too many employees can have the attitude that their opinion isn’t significant as no matter what it will never get heard, and more importantly it will never get impacted upon. Learned Helplessness was originally identified within the 1960’s and... Posted: 31 March 2015 at 2:51 pm by Laura Morris

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Grow Your Own Talent! On Thursday 12 March, CAW Business School in Godmanchester will be hosting a cheese and wine evening in recognition of National Apprenticeship Week (9-13 March). During the evening, Leslie Heaton-Smith, Director at CAW Business School, will give a presentation on how apprenticeships can help your business to maximise its resources through the effective training and... Posted: 2 March 2015 at 12:58 pm by Laura Morris

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Your Team is like Leftover Soup: Even better as time goes by! Grandmas through the ages have always sworn that soup gets better as time goes by. Flavors mellow, blend, and mix in the refrigerator, adding a magical ‘something’ to the soup that was already pretty wonderful to start with. What’s Grandma’s secret? More importantly, what does that have to do with your team? Making a really... Posted: 2 March 2015 at 9:22 am by Laura Morris

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Make a PACT Leadership is doing things with people, not to them. One way to achieve this is by making a PACT with them, where you focus on: People Attention Context Timing In more detail… People Treat your people as people, not things. Ask their opinions. Publicly recognise them when they do well. Make sure you align their personal objectives... Posted: 27 January 2015 at 9:45 am by Laura Morris

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Conformity in the workplace: Friend or Foe? Conformity is the tendency to align your attitudes, beliefs and behaviours with those around you1. Is this natural impulse something to be welcomed in the workplace, or can it have potentially negative effects? Conformity has been traditionally seen as an innate need in order to ensure that you fitted in with your clan or tribe... Posted: 23 January 2015 at 11:28 am by Laura Morris

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Three Top Tips for Getting Ahead in 2015 It’s that time of year again, you’re feeling fat after having too many mince pies and the excitement of Christmas has gone for another year. At this point many people turn their attention to the year ahead. What to do differently? What goals are you setting yourself? Amongst some of the common resolutions such as... Posted: 8 January 2015 at 1:22 pm by Laura Morris

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How to Welcome your New Year’s New Staff Well, that was quite the New Year’s Bash you had at your workplace! Still, the work-week has reared its ugly head. You’ve managed to shake off the headache, taken down the bunting, and you’ve successfully removed the HR bloke from where the accountants gaffer taped him to the side of the stationery cupboard. It’s lucky... Posted: 5 January 2015 at 11:34 am by Laura Morris

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How Much Does Stress Cost You? Ask anybody about stress in their job and you’ll get responses ranging from eye-rolls to the classic dry humor that Britain is famous for. Long hours, high stress situations (emergencies or unplanned extra work!!) and poor pay (the UK National Minimum Wage is less than £12,000/pa after tax1) combine to make working in today’s economy... Posted: 17 December 2014 at 11:21 am by Laura Morris

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Three simple tips to get the most from your team in 2015 The key word in the title of this article is ‘team’. Not colleagues, co-workers or employees but team. Afterall, as we’ve all heard: “Teamwork makes the dream work!” – John C. Maxwell Everyone in your company has a unique role to play, without each individual there is a gap in the process. Therefore the first... Posted: 12 December 2014 at 3:29 pm by Laura Morris

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Why Your Employees Are Leaving you – and What You Can Do To Stop Them! Ever found yourself left frustrated wondering why your best employees are often the ones that leave? It is important to retain good employees for so many reasons. Financially it is costly to recruit a replacement. Not only do you have the costs of potentially placing an advertisement on internet job boards or in a newspaper,... Posted: 20 November 2014 at 10:12 am by Laura Morris

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