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What does an Alchemist do in the New Year?

The New Year has started. There is another way to think about what you want to achieve...
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Communicating and embedding learning into practice

Paul Matthews is speaking at 'Communicating and embedding learning into practice' workshop and networking event organised by Safeguarding Gwent on 7 February 2023
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How to reboot training for tangible business impact?

The 3rd edition of the ebook ‘Reboot Training for Tangible Business Impact’ has been published. With less focus on the pandemic but concentrating on helping learning and development future proving training events and ensuring they achieve business impact.
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What does an Alchemist do at Christmas?

At Christmas, our thoughts turn to others. What could we give them? How can we make this time special for them? Who else could we include in some way?
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Performance diagnostics for managers

Performance depends on the capability of your people. Can the worker do the job in front of them?
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Ostriches don’t have difficult conversations

There are times when you know that you should talk with someone, but don't. Ostriches are famed for not wanting to see the elephant in the room either...
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Catch them doing something right

Many of the ideas of management grew out of the latter stages of the industrial revolution. Do your managers seek to catch people doing something wrong, or catch them doing something right?
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We need a strategy to fix this

"We need a strategy to fix this" - But what is a strategy anyway? I notice that many people get confused between strategy and planning...
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