A-Z of Successful Meetings–A is for Attendees
Who you have at your meeting is crucial to it’s success. There is no point trying to solve a problem with a key department not represented or trying to agree expenditure without the budget holder...
View ArticleBut we’re different….
Many times throughout my career, when investigating a particular problem, people have made comments along the lines of: “But we’re the [Insert any industry name here] industry, our problems are unique,...
View ArticleA-Z of Successful Meetings B is for Behaviours
As people, we are all complex creatures and approach situations in many different ways. This is often seen in meetings. There are the people who like a meeting to be fast paced and decisive but also...
View ArticleA-Z of Successful Meetings–C is for Control
When you start chairing meetings one of the main worries is how to keep control of the meeting. Often some of the delegates will be more senior and/or more experienced and it’s easy to feel alone and...
View ArticleWe’re all human
In our increasingly regulated and controlled working lives, it is easy to feel that we are just part of a big machine, doing repetitive and dull jobs. This is particularly the case if you work in call...
View ArticleA-Z of Successful Meetings–A is for Attendees
Who you have at your meeting is crucial to it’s success. There is no point trying to solve a problem with a key department not represented or trying to agree expenditure without the budget holder...
View ArticleBut we’re different….
Many times throughout my career, when investigating a particular problem, people have made comments along the lines of: “But we’re the [Insert any industry name here] industry, our problems are unique,...
View ArticleA-Z of Successful Meetings B is for Behaviours
As people, we are all complex creatures and approach situations in many different ways. This is often seen in meetings. There are the people who like a meeting to be fast paced and decisive but also...
View ArticleA-Z of Successful Meetings–C is for Control
When you start chairing meetings one of the main worries is how to keep control of the meeting. Often some of the delegates will be more senior and/or more experienced and it’s easy to feel alone and...
View ArticleWe’re all human
In our increasingly regulated and controlled working lives, it is easy to feel that we are just part of a big machine, doing repetitive and dull jobs. This is particularly the case if you work in call...
View ArticleFighting data quality crocodiles
A colleague said recently – “We need to concentrate on fighting the crocodiles nearest the canoe”, which is both useful to remember and also one of the reasons why some organisations struggle to...
View ArticleDo your Data Quality Heroes know who they are?
If you are a data steward (or similar) tasked with improving the quality of your organisations data, then you will be reliant on many people to help improve your data quality who will often be outside...
View ArticleNew species in the Data Zoo–The PoD
Over a period of time we have created a popular series of blog posts with a collective title of the Data Zoo which explore how people’s behaviours towards data can impact the quality and integrity of...
View ArticleThe A-Z of Successful Meetings
During my life in the corporate world, like most people, I spent alot of time in meetings. Often these achieved little and seemed to be devices to fill up the days of managers who wanted to feel...
View ArticleThe A-Z of Successful Meetings – A is for Agenda
The agenda is a key tool to ensuring a successful meeting. It makes the leader think about the best use of the time in the meeting and outlines to the attendees what will be happening during the...
View ArticleA-Z of Successful Meetings–A is for Attendees
Who you have at your meeting is crucial to it’s success. There is no point trying to solve a problem with a key department not represented or trying to agree expenditure without the budget holder...
View ArticleBut we’re different….
Many times throughout my career, when investigating a particular problem, people have made comments along the lines of: “But we’re the [Insert any industry name here] industry, our problems are unique,...
View ArticleA-Z of Successful Meetings B is for Behaviours
As people, we are all complex creatures and approach situations in many different ways. This is often seen in meetings. There are the people who like a meeting to be fast paced and decisive but also...
View ArticleA-Z of Successful Meetings–C is for Control
When you start chairing meetings one of the main worries is how to keep control of the meeting. Often some of the delegates will be more senior and/or more experienced and it’s easy to feel alone and...
View ArticleWe’re all human
In our increasingly regulated and controlled working lives, it is easy to feel that we are just part of a big machine, doing repetitive and dull jobs. This is particularly the case if you work in call...
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