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Just as the gladiators of ancient Rome had the coliseums, there are is perhaps no better environment to observe the finest business brains, tacticians, technical innovators and seat of the pants, gung-ho egos compete than the Formula 1 motor-sport championship. Returning after the winter break, the 2010 season begins on Sunday 14th March in Bahrain. Forward read more of The world’s best university How fitting for International Women’s Day; Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win best director at the Oscars, as The Hurt Locker wins the best film prize. 2010 is the 82nd time the gold statues have been awarded so why then has it taken so long for a women to win? Let’s hope the publicity associated read more of A first for women The traditional model of rewarding an employee typically equates to ‘the-going-rate’ or ‘market level’ for the job. The employer expects and the employee agrees to a specific set of responsibilities and the implied associated activity. In return for the reward, the employee is expected to work for a ‘nominal’ number of hours. On occasion, it doesn’t matter read more of Payment by results Coping with redundancy, changing jobs or starting a business is stressful. Alongside ‘the-end-of-the-familiar’ is a whole lot of new stuff too. Coping with change can be difficult even for us who’s job it is to help others cope. Evaluating from your audience, customer or potential client perspective can be overlooked all too easily. How to cope with read more of Change, practice makes perfect? Trust, whether implicit or explicit is often hard earned. Break the trust promise and it’s unlikely it can ever be restored. The fast food restaurant where service is slow, the convenient on-line store which ships the incorrect product, then insists you pay for postage to rectify ‘their’ mistake. When convenience is the unique selling point (U.S.P.) repairing the read more of A matter of trust Road signs alert us to impending potentially hazardous situations. Heeding or ignoring them is a matter of personal choice, the signs are there whether we take notice or not. Economically, politically and socially our lives are changing. Whatever the result of the general election in May 2010 it’s certain more change will follow; the need to read more of Bumps ahead It is with much regret that we have to postpone our C.I.P.D. – South East Wales branch presentation planned for Wednesday 10th February 2010. Training courses don’t work – save your budget and switch to something that does! An unprecedented work schedule means we will not be in Cardiff on the 10th. Apologies to those who had read more of News update – South East Wales CIPD Event If you sell a product or a service that is truely bespoke, a one off, crafted for each individual customer and to satisfy a specific need; it’s likely the specification is crucial. Not only does the initial brief inform your activity it also leads to accuracy of the fee quotation and so how profitable the endeavour read more of Reward for your time The so called Apple iSlate rumor mill has been busy for over 18 months; calculating how much the press speculation and resulting publicity is worth to Apple is a considerable challenge and one that is probably meaningless anyway. Safe to say it’s worth a lot. Later today, Apple holds a press conference in San Fransisco where, read more of Apple – Corporate Secrets Cadbury employees are waking up this morning wondering what will happen to their jobs after their board of directors approved Kraft’s takeover proposal. It’s certain there will be job losses, how many and exactly where, is yet to be announced. Kraft will already be working on the who and where but as yet, all that remains read more of Cadbury employees fear the ‘Kraft-knife’ |
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