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Tue, 21/05/2013 - 16:08 by Rebecca Kearley
Download the Spring 2013 issue of Professional Manager magazine, themed on Breaking Barriers.  Members can access the magazine for free through the Professional Manager website and the...
Mon, 20/05/2013 - 20:18 by Graham Wilson
There's really no doubt that you need a photograph to accompany your profile on LinkedIn. Not having one simply means that people will at best consider you're a newbie on LI (and, by extrapolation,...
Mon, 20/05/2013 - 20:13 by Graham Wilson
Speaking at a networking event the other day, I did a quick straw poll to test out one of my theories about why so many people find such events a pointless exercise despite feeling compelled to go...
Fri, 26/08/2011 - 11:17 by Adrian Gaskell
Yesterday research revealed the importance of mobile working to employees around the country, with many willing to up sticks and swap employer for one that offered more flexible working arrangements...
Thu, 18/04/2013 - 02:20 by Raja Raja Kamarudin
In my more than thirty years in senior management, I have time and again been called upon and tasked to turn around many companies, small and large, private and public listed companies as well. In...
Fri, 12/04/2013 - 16:03 by Graham Wilson
This is a very familiar plea. Sadly, a lot of the people who come to me have been trying for quite a while to find a new role, haven't succeeded, and now their spouse is beginning to lose patience....
Fri, 12/04/2013 - 13:23 by Graham Wilson
I'm not a great believer in paperwork exercises - simply documenting something that you'd do anyway in order to gain a piece of paper seems intrinsically wrong to me. It's a question of how much...
Wed, 03/03/2010 - 23:00 by John Cummings
  Pamela Craig writing in businessweek.com this week cited recent research carried out by Accenture among 3600 professionals which found that only 13% had turned to a mentor to assist their...
Wed, 27/03/2013 - 13:00 by Rebecca Kearley
Did you know that ineffective management is predicted to cost UK businesses £19 billion this year in lost working hours?  by Dr Deirdre Hughes OBECareers policy, research and practice...
Tue, 26/04/2011 - 15:00 by Adrian Gaskell
The question of whether entrepreneurs are born or made seems an increasingly common one.  Some believe that anyone can be an entrepreneur if they put the hard graft into it, whilst others...