Month: February, 2010

New look website

It’s annoying when you go to that familiar shop or town only to realise everything has changed and you can’t find anything. So, in reorganising our website, we’ve simply sharpened up our the main sections so you can see where to go and tidied up the contents of our pages. If you can’t find anything, [...]

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Final Bookings:Spring Career Advancement Programme

A confidential, personalised career programme provided by an independent career consultant to enable you (or your staff) to realise and reach their career goals.  For those wishing to confirm or change career direction, accelerate promotion or find new job opportunities.  Also, in times of organisational restructuring, for those who face redundancy or the need to [...]

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Capturing customer needs

Knowing how to market your products and services is essential to business success. management consultant Nicky Spencer explores what marketing is and its value to healthcare bodies. Using marketing terminology in relation to the health service is more acceptable now than it has ever been. Many use the term “marketing” synonymously with selling, advertising or [...]

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Building a high performing team

Attention on world class organisations, productive services and talent management, together with a natural inclination to safeguard our own roles and careers, could leave a crucial building block neglected: the team. Though some appear to emerge spontaneously, the best teams are not built overnight. The challenge for health service managers is to build productive teams [...]

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Going solo

Nicky Spencer and John Willets offer some advice to managers thinking of making the move into independent consultancy. An article in Health Management earlier this year assessed some of the implications of becoming an independent consultant. But what does it mean in practice? What are some of the pitfalls you should be aware of? Here [...]

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Time lords

Learning to manage your time effectively is a valuable skill for anyone, but particularly busy managers. Procrastination may be the thief of time, but these tips from a recent IHM East Midlands event will help tackle your personal “time thieves”. So you want to manage your time better? Well, there’s no time like the present. [...]

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