By Elisabeth Goodman, 29th October 2019 The Autumn issue of Project, the APM’s (Association for Project Management) quarterly publication, carries a couple of articles on the very important theme of well-being. Working on life science projects can be a high stress activity The APM commissioned some research by the University of Manchester, led by Dr …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 24th October 2019 The area where RiverRhee works, in Cambridgeshire UK, is a real magnet for talent in the Life Science and IT sectors in particular. Many of the companies are growing rapidly and there is also fierce competition between the companies. We all know that the recruitment process can be time-consuming …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th October 2019 According to W. Bennis, “Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing.” Clarity of purpose is one topic where these differences in remit can be vividly illustrated, as Thomas W. Malnight, Ivy Buche and Charles Dhanaraj remind us in “Put purpose …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 6th October 2019 According to Nancy Kline, author of “Time to Think”, thinking for ourselves and thinking well, is what enables us to be effective in anything that we do. And yet many things mitigate against us being able to think as frequently or as well as we could. Barriers to thinking …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 25th September 2019 We are entering that time of year when many companies carry out their performance reviews and appraisals. It can be quite a stressful exercise for individual team members, and for line managers. This article from the latest issue of Harvard Business Review provides some interesting insights that could be …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 5th September 2019 Why this blog? The ability to coach is an invaluable, if sometimes daunting, management skill, as well as something that I and my colleagues at RiverRhee offer to support our clients. So I am starting a new series of blogs, under the main heading of “The manager as coach”, …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 28th August 2019 I have been enjoying Brian Little’s “Me , Myself and Us – The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being” over the summer. It was recommended to me by one of my delegates (unfortunately I can’t remember who), and has proved very insightful. Here are just some of …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th August 2019 The Summer issue of APM’s (Association for Project Management) Project magazine has a couple of excellent articles on rebuilding relationships. Susanne Madsen (p. 63) addresses how to strengthen your relationship with internal stakeholders who have become cynical and negative over the years. Marion Thomas and Sarah Walton (pp. 65-67) …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 5th August 2019 Remember Gary Hamel’s article last November about how to retain employee engagement in growing and large organisations? The latest issue of Harvard Business Review (July – August 2019) carries two articles that provide some stimulating and converging ideas about how to achieve employee engagement through a combination of control …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 29th June 2019 I have been spending a pleasant few hours browsing through the APM’s summer issue (no.299) of their quarterly publication Project and have found it a rich mine of information for the subjects that RiverRhee covers in its courses for project and line managers. Here then are some extracts from …
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