Meetings. Around 70% of us wish we had fewer of them. And when we talk to people in business, the worst offender is the remote or virtual meeting. Being in different physical locations seems to exacerbate everything that is wrong with many face to face meetings, and it also brings tech challenges along with the
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Ranked in the global top 10 of the most desirable companies to work for, Netflix is an employer that clearly gives a great deal back to its employees in terms of salary, culture and development opportunities. But it also expects a lot in return and is well known for its unusual performance assessment method, the
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We know that investing in our staff is crucial to a happy workforce and a successful business but how do you do this properly? At Imago Venues we have recently achieved our ambition of being awarded the prestigious Investors in People (IIP) Platinum Accreditation. IIP is an international standard for people management and recognises organisations
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What defines a good a manager? There are plenty of articles and papers that would like to give you all the answers. However, what defines a good manager in one organisation, may not be the same in another. There are a multitude of reasons for this. There are differences in culture – different ways of
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To state the exceedingly obvious, your teams probably spend a large proportion of their time communicating with customers, suppliers and internally within their organisation. The need for these multiple communications has existed as long as business has, which is hundreds of years. For the record, the longest running business still in existence today is Kongo
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One of the major challenges facing businesses that deliver eLearning is engagement. For many learners, sitting down to get stuck into training, mandatory or otherwise, isn’t often top of their list. But making eLearning digestible, effective, and dare we say it, fun, doesn’t have to be impossible. Use these 5 simple tactics, to get on
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