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Survive and Thrive - How Was it For You?

2010-08-31 14:35 - 190 reads - 6 comments

Tomorrow What Goes Around will be one year old. Has it really been a year? Yes it has. September the first is our birthday. We’ll come back to the celebrations later. For now, I want to share three things that I’ve focussed on and worked at to help What Goes Around survive and thrive this past year. Three among the many that I’ve practiced in the last twelve months. And I would really appreciate it if you could do the same. Tell us three things you’ve practised to help you survive and thrive. I’m publishing this note on a number of networks. I’ll collate all the replies, and share them in a little ebook. Everything will be included, and of course, everyone gets a namecheck, a weblink, whatever works best for you. Here goes:

What Goes Around...

Lay back and think of England!

2010-08-31 09:14 - 319 reads - 1 comment

From conversations recently I think that's how many of us are approaching life.

Before you disagree could you please just do an inventory of all areas of your life and confirm how many of them you're perfectly happy with.

Work? Relationship? Family? Friends? Health? Fitness? Home? Hobbies? Contribution?

How did you get on?

What I've noticed is we do really seem to put up with a lot of what should be unacceptable in our lives. We just say "That's life", "That's business", "That's relationships for you", "That's just the way it is" or even "That's old age for you."

Paddle Finding with Alison Smith

Employing graduates: Easy as 1,2,3?

2010-08-31 09:09 - 522 reads - 1 comment

With a continuing high level of unemployment among graduates, Poppy Ring asks: are universities adequately equipping students with the transferable skills required for the workplace?

Radical immigration cap will mean major skills problems

2010-08-27 16:59 - 368 reads - 1 comment

Because training workers to plug the UK skills gap is a lengthy task, the abrupt introduction of a “radical” immigration cap would generate major skills problems for employers and lead to more offshoring.

How to avoid the Employment Tribunal

2010-09-02 09:03 - 950 reads - 1 comment

Abercrombie & Fitch accused of 'lookism' gavel law legal judge

Guy Hollebon, Head of Employment Law at Bristol and London based Bevans Solicitors, analyses the dramatic rise in claims and gives top tips.

2/3 public sector 'would take pay cut'

2010-09-01 14:37 - 245 reads - 1 comment

With unemployment predicted to breach 10% outside of London and the South of England, nearly two thirds of public sector workers would now be prepared to take pay cuts to save their jobs.

Hey good-lookin' - want a job?

2010-08-27 16:50 - 611 reads

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Just over two thirds of employers would be more inclined to hire good-looking candidates, with a scary 9% admitting that they had in the past recruited someone purely because of their appearance.

'Equal pay' firms target 'unenforceable' pay secrecy clauses

2010-09-01 16:00 - 247 reads

Private sector employers should brace themselves for a wave of mass discrimination lawsuits following the abolition of a pay secrecy clause in the Equality Act.

Retaining Recognition and Rehiring in the Recovery

2010-08-27 18:28 - 224 reads

What’s your investment plan for workforce improvement programmes? An Accenture survey of CxO level executives (and a few HR pros) found recognition, incentive and training programmes held steady or actually increased in the last 12 months.

As Incentive magazine reported on the study:

“In the United States, 39 percent of respondents made no changes to their recognition programmes, while 28 percent increased them. … On average, about 24 percent of respondents cut those programmes. International companies showed even more support for retaining or growing recognition, incentive, and training programmes, with just 15 percent and 19 percent cutting recognition and incentive compensation programmes, while about 75 percent maintained or grew them.”

Strategic Employee Recognition: by Derek Irvine

Top five tips for a sustainable business culture which sticks

2010-09-02 09:07 - 290 reads

Going green is good for the budget and the brand. But how can you make the green intentions stick? Follow our five top tips.