Culture Club

21 / 07 / 2016

Recently Microsoft was embarrassed by one of its graduate recruiters who sent an ‘awkward’ email to a perspective recruit. The email read as follows: “Hey Bae Intern

Managing the Handover Process

14 / 07 / 2016

In a whirlwind of recent events David Cameron resigned after losing the EU referendum in June and after a very quick turnaround, Theresa May now steps in as the country’s second female prime minister. Mrs May has already started announcing the appointments to her new cabinet. We all know they have many challenges ahead of them. Picking up the reins...

Stop Providing All The Answers

12 / 07 / 2016

Part of developing your team is to help them learn to make their own decisions and solve their own problems. Sometimes it’s necessary to provide the answer but in the majority of non-urgent situations providing a solution might be quicker, but is not essential. If you give a quick-fire answer every time someone raises a question it will inhibit the...

Is Your Workplace Making You Fat?

07 / 07 / 2016

In 2013 the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation published findings that the UK has the highest level of obesity in Western Europe, ahead of countries such as France, Germany, Spain and Sweden. Milton Keynes (where we are based) has the highest number of overweight people in the country. Public Health England’s figures show that 72.5 per cent of over 18s...

Entrepreneurial Enthusiasm

05 / 07 / 2016

Like Flora Poste I am not a fan of chaos and look forward to the political scene settling down again, a proper plan being put in place and the media dulling its shrilly hysterical “we’re doomed” message down to the occasional dry squawk. It’s time we got on with things and made the best of it. It has been a...