Managers, senior managers executives and directors are often called on to provide references. There are often conflicting pieces of advice about employers’ references – should we or shouldn’t...

One of my own challenges of writing client CVs is that I always talk through the dual road – that the CV is not a standalone: the CV...

In 2015, Clarissa Farr, Headmistress at the £22,000 a year St Paul’s Girls’ school (http://spgs.org/) said “The sacred esteem of the old institutions is going to go. Far...

Whether you’re paid by someone else, or run a company with many hundreds or thousands of employees, or work for a small organisation, there is a value placed...

Do you love where you work? Whether the answer to the question is yes or no, the more interesting question is always why? What are the common issues...

I want to expand – or complement, your call – our previous post about leadership. How long have you spent time employed in different organisations over how many...

When I first graduated, I joined a well-known global company based in the UK. My memory – dimmed a little but not wrong – is of top-down management:...

The 11-year, 3.8 miles, $5.25 billion Panama Canal, completed in 2016, involved carving out a new 3.8-mile-long channel for a new lock which required 4.4 million cubic meters...

One of the biggest challenges all executives face is communication – face-to-face, remote and group. And this has become all the more so in times of Cloud-sharing, Webex...

In recent times, the role of the interview has gone beyond simply assessing whether a candidate has the ability to do a specific job; increasing importance is being...