Monday 2nd March 2020 – The 144th Informal Drink in Oxford – and the LAST

It is 12yrs ago, that I took on the role of local organiser for Ecademy.  Several small but disparate groups of networkers had been drifting without organisers for months, and so the first step was to amalgamate the groups.  The… Continue reading

The EIGHT stages of the Employee Life-Cycle

Someone, somewhere, came up with a way of modelling how an organisation relates to an individual employee over the course of their time with them.  This has entered the mythology of HR and textbooks refer to it as if it… Continue reading

MONDAY 3rd February 2020 – THE 143rd INFORMAL DRINK IN OXFORD

An informal networking group, held every month (usually on the first Monday) at the Victoria Arms in Old Marston. The focus is on informality and building friendships with peers for the longer-term support of each other’s activities. There are no… Continue reading

MONDAY 6th JANUARY 2020 – THE 142nd INFORMAL DRINK IN OXFORD

An informal networking group, held every month (usually on the first Monday) at the Victoria Arms in Old Marston. The focus is on informality and building friendships with peers for the longer-term support of each other’s activities. There are no… Continue reading

New course: Introduction to Reflective Practice and Journaling (Oxford, Jan 2020)

Does your profession expect you to use reflective practice (RP) to maintain the ability to practice? Increasingly professional bodies are seeing that attending workshops and conferences have limited long-term impact without the habit of RP. This is particularly true of… Continue reading

“Keeping staff in the dark about pay feeds perception of unfairness, new research from the CIPD finds…”

How extraordinary… I would NEVER have guessed that… “Keeping staff in the dark about pay feeds perception of unfairness, new research from the CIPD finds…”   http://view.comms.cipdmail.com/?qs=0918937c42381e69d90baa3f67958a7bd5e11e4fe2aaee3cd8e401898947b254647c099a985728366eb4bfd0172a1e7e3b728005f32c133a0ca1fbcb05e2f3f4cb555e902c771c21776fd4675a10d035  

In the pursuit of productivity…

Many business school and professional development programmes are based on the same politico-economic model… one that assumes that economic growth is always for the good… that we should all seek for our organisations to become ever more productive… that individuals… Continue reading

MONDAY 2nd DECEMBER 2019 – THE 141st INFORMAL DRINK IN OXFORD

An informal networking group, held every month (usually on the first Monday) at the Victoria Arms in Old Marston. The focus is on informality and building friendships with peers for the longer term support of each other’s activities. There are… Continue reading

MONDAY 4th NOVEMBER 2019 – THE 140TH INFORMAL DRINK IN OXFORD

An informal networking group, held every month (usually on the first Monday) at the Victoria Arms in Old Marston. The focus is on informality and building friendships with peers for the longer term support of each other’s activities. There are… Continue reading