Practical tips. Prompts to get you thinking. The odd rant.

This is an increasingly hot topic, and rightly so. According to the CIPD’s recent research, a young person is 3.5 times more likely to be unemployed than an adult. Before you shrug and say, “Too bad, but times are tough”, stop and think about the long-term implications of that. For your current employer, the business… Read more

There’s been a lot of heated discussion on a couple of online threads recently about whether or not to develop and keep appraisals or dump them altogether. To sum up both sides’ views:   Why should we dump appraisals?   They take too darn long to fill in On top of that, other people are… Read more

If you’re interested in leadership and management, read this book. If what’s going on in the upper echelons of leadership in the private sector enrages you, read this book. And if you get angry about public sector leadership, read this book. You should probably read this book if you ever get exasperated at 3rd sector… Read more

Here at Zoomly HQ, we’ve been road-testing a new workshop about ‘How to manage upwards’. So far, so good: our lovely clients dive right in. One of the Big Insights that participants take away from the session is what really matters to their boss. That’s important for several reasons: Our relationship with our boss is… Read more