A recent report suggest that female directors of UK firms work longer days than their male counterparts but earn, on average, 19 percent (around 14,000) a year less. Although the pay gap has narrowed by five percent since last year, it shows that even those woman who break through the glass ceiling and reach board level will find another roof over their heads. How do senior decision makers understand how to enable these woman to succeed. Thoughts anyone?
Category Archives: work
Do you have the skills you need?
Everyday around 1.3 million people go to work with out the skills they require according to a new study.
These statistics undoubtedly affect the economy, but a skills for business survey found that a there are still significant barriers to putting the situation right. Here are couple tips. Helping employees to move in their career can be done in a number of ways and need not cost the earth.
1. Appoint someone to identify areas that need improving.
2. See whether you have the skills in house or need to hire in a training professional to provider the skill.
3. Provide training on site during less busy periods.
4. Provide some from of certification weather that is in house or a recognized body.
5. Offer a bonus to encourage learning and improvement.
Results have shown that companies and employees benefit from a mixture of formal and informal training.
Working with others
Business relationships are just like any other sort of relationships. I have heard it said many times that that people do not mix business with pleasure or say may I introduce a colleague. We may think that we have to work less hard on our realtionships with colleagues because we are being paid to do a job. Nothing could be further from the truth. If one wants to be successful at work then they are going to have to develop relationships. What kind of relationship you choose to develop will give a fair idea of how you feel about your work. From a purely mathematical point of view. A person will probably spend more of their time with their colleagues than anybody else. What kind of relationship would you like? Would you mix business with pleasure?
Back to work with a smile
By engaged learning, we mean that all student activities involve active cognitive processes such as creating, problem-solving, reasoning, decision-making, and evaluation
When it comes around to the beginning of the week after the break, it always reminds me of a qoute from Simon Cowell who said that whatever he was doing whether he was washing cars or doing the more successful x factor he would go to work with a smile. I wonder how many of us can say the same. Of course these days there is very little excuse for not doing something that you like. As the opportunities to find the work you want are so great. It is still very much an employee market. Most firms consider that they cannot find the right staff according to Rec. The big question is do companies have an unreal perspective for employees or are employees looking for something more to engage them.
Basic Principles
By engaged learning, we mean that all student activities involve active cognitive processes such as creating, problem-solving, reasoning, decision-making, and evaluation. In addition, students are intrinsically motivated to learn due to the meaningful nature of the learning environment and activities… thoughts…..
Managing Stress at Work
Stress is killer it turns good people into bad people, and bad people into monsters.
There are many sorts of stress, stress getting on with people. Family life stress, partner stress to name but a few and to top it all off no stress at all is not good for us.
So how does one keep the balance? The first step is being aware of it…..
Once you have done that you can start to work on other techniques to mange your stress and maintain a balance.
There are a lot of people who have no idea about the stress they feel every day, unfortunately is is not possible to tell them as stress stops proper communication. A catch 22.
Why do people climb Mountains?
What is in a challenge how does it benefit myself.
In my varied experience of life it has come to my attention how you could possible divide people into two catorgies. this has no benefit for me but it does demonstrate a very interesting point. What makes one person want to fly 2000 miles to climb a mountain in kenya, or another to give up all there possessions and go and live a monks life. We are of course challenged. everyone is challenged from the day they are born to there last dying breath. I can remember a time thinking how do I stop getting challenged. It seemed to me that less you were challenged the more peaceful existence one can lead. This is nonsense not only is it not possible, but it incredible boring which leads to whole host of less favourable situations .
No we are born to be challenged in some way or the other and the quicker we rise up to it the more prepared will be. It is going to happen anyway so one might as well get something out of it.
Network Sensations
There is a interesting dicussion going on over at marketing pilgrim written by Jordan McCollumabout how site visitors to Face book dropped after christmas. Personally I think networks will come ago, a bit like music sensations. Top of the pops for a while then on to the next one. Of course you will have your evergreens. Will anyone remember Facebook in five years time? or will have developed a new way of communication?