Grey Matter Learning Blog

As you might be aware, it’s Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK, focussing on the power and potential of kindness. I don’t need to tell you to be kind to others (bit patronising, to be honest!) as it’s what most people do instinctively and what most of us do in our everyday job role….

Over the last two months, we have seen a complete transformation in the way that people are working and living.  There are great stories emerging about people spending more time with their loved ones and getting round to doing the jobs that have been put off.  I remain amazed at the resilience and positivity that…

We know it is not quite May 4th just yet, but we are delighted to achieve Skills for Care Centre of Excellence for the fourth year in a row and I wanted to take this opportunity to thank my team for all of their hard work in making this happen. Literally thousands of managers and…

Thanks for the kind feedback on last week’s Resilience blog; I hope it provided some support during this difficult time for all. I wanted to turn this week to another key issue – the recruitment and retention of care workers.  This has always been a thorny issue within the adult social care space, though there…

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…