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Teamwork in pole position?
There's a lot spoken about teamwork and sport - but how important is teamwork in achieving sporting success? Or is it simply the brilliance of an individual Beckham that achieves the glory? Gary Saunders looks at teamwork and his personal passion - Formula 1 racing - to see if teamwork really does hold pole position.
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Show some emotion...
While companies encourage - and indeed, even mandate emotion for some types of customer facing roles - some roles are designed to cut the emotion out of them, to protect the staff. Karen looks at recent trends in the NHS which appear to be taking out this protection for staff and looks at the potential for harm to employees.
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The endless debate goes on - is training a "proper" profession or just a poor relation to HR?
Read Gary's comments, along with others in an article from Training Zone.
Click here to read the article, which appeared on Training Zone on 14 May.
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Employee Engagement - a work in progress?
Employee engagement has all the hallmarks of the latest management fad. Big consultancies are getting involved and publishing research to say that it’s not happening; business gurus are writing books on how to achieve it; and there’s a variety of definitions of what it actually is. Karen and Gary led a mindstretch with invited HR professionals to look at some of the issues and the article is a result of their discussions.
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