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Why Stress Is So Stressful

Blog - Why Stress Is So Stressful

It has been suggested that employee stress, depression, and a lack of personal motivation were caused by the disruption the pandemic brought and the subsequent ripple effect that followed. This is false. Although it may have accelerated their impact, the ingredients were already there and, to a large extent, were producing negative outcomes in the workplace long before.

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Join us for Key Performance Training’s Launch Event – 17th June 2022

Blog - Join us for Key Performance Training’s Launch Event – 17th June 2022

Our sister company, Key Performance Training, are delighted to announce their Launch Event on 17th June 2022 at their new dedicated training centre in Kembrey Park in Swindon.

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Why Job Satisfaction Matters

Blog - Why Job Satisfaction Matters

It has been suggested that job specialisation will result in low job satisfaction, which is another way of saying that people get more satisfaction from jobs that are less specialised - more general, in other words.

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Our Sister Company, Key Performance Training, Moves to New premises

Blog - Our Sister Company, Key Performance Training, Moves to New premises

Be More Effective are delighted to announce that our sister company, Key Performance Training has moved to new premises. Swindon-based Key Performance Training’s re-location to bigger premises in Kembrey Park will provide a welcome boost to the local workforce.

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Why Employment With You Is Intolerable

Blog - Why Employment With You Is Intolerable

People often leave because they’re forced to - sacked, redundancy, or long-term illness. They also leave because they’re not happy where they are. They may want experiences they can’t get without leaving, or a promotion that’s not available in their current organisation. That said, it’s more than likely that their boss has become intolerable. What would make you - the manager - intolerable to work for? Lots of things.

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What Level of Leadership Needs the Most Attention?

Blog - What Level of Leadership Needs the Most Attention?

Birkman asks, “If you had to prioritise, then what level of leadership in your organisation do you need to give more attention to this year?” This is a good question because it forces you to narrow your focus from thinking about leadership generically to one that is specific to you and to consider it granularly. It’s much easier to think about leadership across an industry or even an organisation that it is to ask specific questions about it. In this article, we’re going to look at...

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Weak Questions Leaders Ask

Blog - Weak Questions Leaders Ask

Questions may be the most powerful way to make progress on anything because they provoke thinking, and because the answers that result can give guidance for precise action. Of course, the key is to ask good questions, which is much easier said than done. That’s because all of us approach them with pre-conditions and assumptions. We all have things that we’re unwilling to change no matter what. The tendency is to take those things as given so much so that we forget that they are there. Th...

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Why Are You Trying to Be Like Everyone Else & How Can You Be Different?

Blog -  Why Are You Trying to Be Like Everyone Else & How Can You Be Different?

There’s a remarkable tendency in all organisations to do what everyone else does. For all the rhetoric about being innovative, most of them are unwilling to stick their corporate necks out too far. It’s much more comfortable to be somewhere in the middle of the pack than to take the risk that they’ll be wrong by putting their heads above the proverbial parapet. This attitude is exemplified in five key areas, each of which reflects what everyone is does already or is trying to do: the in...

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The Case For Upsizing

Blog - The Case For Upsizing

You’ve heard of downsizing and rightsizing, but have you ever thought about upsizing? Many different terms have been used over the years to describe what amounts to the same thing: Changing the size of a business by making people redundant. The parts of organisations were rearranged by goals or means - production and sales or committees, departments, or divisions. Back and forth, and then back again. But no matter which one was emphasised, invariably people lost their jobs as a result. And...

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The Price You Pay When You Lose Your Way

Blog - The Price You Pay When You Lose Your Way

Why are you in business? What’s your purpose? A typical answer is that you are in business to make money. If that’s the first thing that popped into your mind, then you’ve already lost your way. You’ve already forgotten why you’re in business. If you said that it’s because you spotted a gap in the market that you could fill, then you’re a little bit closer to the right answer, but still closer than you think to losing your way. Surprised? Here’s the right answer...

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