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Get fit, stay fit

A series of half day training programmes at Hyundai have been helping staff to maintain their positive focus and their health. Here Anthony Landale takes a look at this bite sized learning programme and considers its practical benefits.
There is an increasing trend within organisations to encourage staff to ‘choose the attitude’ that they bring with [...]

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New Business Thinking: Mind Mapping Your Way to More Creativity and Less Box-ticking

Staff appraisals can be transformed into opportunities for structured development, Clare Gascoigne discovers
Annual staff appraisals are a key element in personnel management. But all too often an appraisal can become a box-ticking exercise that is of little help to either staff or management. “A lot of appraisals are driven by form-filling,” says Clive Lewis, managing [...]

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It’s Easier Than you Think to Stand Up and Deliver (Sunday Times)

Many people shy away from giving a presentation. But if you keep it simple and concentrate on the big picture, you can make your point, says Clare Gascoigne
Put together all the people in Britain who suffer from agoraphobia, claustrophobia and arachnophobia and you still wouldn’t match the number of people who are scared of standing [...]

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