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Procurement teams have an important strategic role to play in an organisation: where once upon a time procurement may have been seen to...

Coaching support for businesses dealing with challenge or change  In the last few months I’ve spoken to lots of managers who are...

We are thrilled to announce that we’ll be launching our new online learning platform Evolve Online Learning on Monday. We’ve been working...

We recently carried out a follow-up survey to our first Flexible Working Survey in May 2020. The results of the first survey, taken just...

We are thrilled to announce that we'll be launching our new online learning platform Evolve Online Learning on Monday. We've been working...

Good leadership is a skill that comes naturally for some, and less easily for others – but it can be taught. It comes down to good...

Our recent survey showed that working from home offers numerous benefits for many workers – and their employers. Respondents indicated...

I’m really interested in the way that work has changed over the past six weeks as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.  With a huge...

Five weeks into the lockdown, those of us who are working from home are beginning to settle into a new routine. You might have struggled...

Soft skills are hard – but really, really important. I’ve heard the term ‘soft skills’ used in a derogatory fashion for many years in...

What does the fact that we bought a van have to do with your taking over a new team? Surprisingly, there are a lot of similarities. We...

Like most people, I have been subjected to death by PowerPoint over the years, one memorable occasion was when a one hour Health and...

have lost count of the number of presentations I have delivered over the years but, whether I am presenting to a small group of people or...

We’d like to share the journey of another one of our long standing clients with you – Nik Green. We first started working with Nik over...

As the second in our series of stories from our clients, celebrating our twenty years in business, we'd like to share Rachel Picken's...

Do you have too many tasks to keep them all in your head? Do you make lists? For lots of people, the problem with lists is that is...

Yes it is, it’s not who? or where? or how? or when? or why? What? is the ultimate question. The question that will give you the...

I was recently involved in the introduction of a long cultural change project with a client in Cornwall. Polymermedics Ltd.  is a UK...

By Carl Fitzsimons. Carl is HR Director: UK, Ireland & Netherlands at John West Foods. Carl sent me this piece he wrote recently and I...

This week has been characterised by grey skies, chilly evenings and rain here in Cornwall and these autumnal blues mean my social media...