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What do you associate resilience with?  Is it a positive or negative? Often the need to be resilient is linked to tough or challenging times in our lives; as a result resilience can be associated with the negatives.  It is a natural part of what we use to cope, to get by, to deal with…

We’re working to support our community during this COVID-19 crisis.  We are humbled by the positive response that we received on our free Coronavirus e-learning course.  Since 2006, our mission has been to Improve Lives Through Learning and to help the community further during this outbreak, we’re now offering: Free access to Click, our online…

Thanks to everyone for sharing their feedback about the Effective Delegation post which was two weeks ago (apologies I missed a week) – how things have changed in only two weeks, it feels much longer… It is the first of April and no, this post definitely will not be some sort of “April Fools” post…

Over the past couple of weeks we have been looking at things that potentially save managers time and empower staff at the same time and thanks to everyone who has shared their feedback and some of things they have found useful. If anyone has used the really powerful question, please do share your experience? I…

I hope you enjoyed last week’s post about the really powerful question; I know it is something I wish I had known about a long time ago… This week, I wanted to follow on from the really powerful question in a similar vein, one of the things I said last week, is “time is the…

Thanks, as always, to everyone who shared their feedback on the last post about CQC and measuring leadership behaviours. As I indicated last week, there’s a really powerful question which would save managers’ time AND empower staff at the same time. If you are a manager, senior or a team leader, then this week’s post…

Thanks to Neil Eastwood for last week’s insightful post about Values Based Recruitment (VBR); we are very grateful to Neil for taking time out of his busy schedule to share his knowledge and understanding. I am always encouraged when something, that on the surface might seem complex, can be broken down by a skilled communicator…

This week I am delighted to share this guest post from Neil Eastwood… As the title suggests three great tips for adding VBR to your recruitment processes. There is little doubt that recruitment will be the top business risk for social care employers throughout the coming decade. With the increasing pressure on recruiters and managers…

Now that everyone is back in full swing after the festivities, I wanted to use this week’s blog to introduce one of the themes we are going to discuss across the remainder of January and that is “values based”… We have all heard of values-based recruitment and next week Neil Eastwood is going to make…

Thank you to all of the subscribers to our blog and thanks for all the suggestions and feedback last year. Before we get stuck into the blog proper in 2020, I wanted to take a moment to look back at the ideas and suggestions that were shared in 2019. Just got your PIR? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/just-got-your-pir-pic-sarah-knapp/ Don’t…