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Selection of Poetry composed by Mel Clifford. Additional poems kindly provided with the permission of the authors.

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Never Lose the Child Within - Your World of Business.

What you create in your life will either support you or hinder you in what you want to achieve. Like the culture you create and support within your organisation, it can make the Company great or destroy it – everyone has a part to play including you. Why do we lose the child within us when we enter the world of Business?

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Message from a Hostel – Back to the Future 13

Help!

Blue Nun

Hey Nora how do you know Alistair, asked Hig. Quickly thinking on her feet Nora replied, Alistair Oh! I thought you said Alan, Alan is a cousin of mine who will be living in London, I mean is living in London. Thought you might be thinking of Al my [...]

What Does Your Organisation Value?

Is it Time for Change?

It is sometimes said “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” but it might be best to break it.  Having lots of policies just to keep the employees in line – my question is why?

If 90% of your team are working 55-70 hours a week and you [...]

Happy Results from your HR Department.

What gets Measured gets Done

Why not change the title of the HR Director or HR Manager to the Director or Manager of Happiness.

Are they not responsible for the happiness of the people within an organisation?

Do we not hear that they hold the role accountable for Human Resources?

Where you worked [...]

Recruitment Panels – Is your Company Boring or Creative?

Have you the right selection panel?

While tutoring a programme yesterday to group of business professional it reminded me of a post I published early in 2010 about being creative in your selection process.

Organisations when they need to recruit employees often select the wrong individuals or panels to conduct the interviews.  If [...]

What Goes Around

To everyone for their kind words and thoughts expressed to my family and I on the death of my Mum thank you.  I am now in Canada and this is the first post I have written since I left to travel home over two weeks ago.  Thanks to Jazz Air & Air Canada for [...]

Getting Things Done

When you think it is all sorted think again.  Did you achieve what you set out to achieve?  Could it have been achieved better or earlier?  Did the task need to be done at all?  Did you need to be involved? Could you have planned it better? Questions that are often asked after the [...]

The 5 States of Success

Brendan Foley

WOW! It’s finally here! It is with the greatest pleasure that I have been asked to invite you to join Brendan Foley for the launch of his new book The 5 States of Success at 6:30pm on Tuesday 6th of September, in Dubray Books, Blackrock Shopping Centre, Co Dublin Ireland.

100% [...]

Let’s Talk – Social Media is Dead

The growth of communications via social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter LinkedIn, blogging and such like has been unbelievable over the past few years.  Facebook is now claiming that it’s fastest growing group are females between the ages of 55 – 65.  Those born in the mid 1990’s have grown up with [...]

Making Training Happen – Part 3

I am often asked how an organisation can calculate the return on investment (ROI) it makes on Training and Development.

I use this formula based on one individual that can be extended based on numbers trained and salary variations.

IE% on CS – TC =ROI X EY’s

CS – Current Salary

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