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management support

What we're about...

  • 60 years of HR and OD experience available to you in direct support.
  • 60 years experience available to you in management tools that you can use to generate psychometric reports and employment documents.
  • 60 years experience in models and methods published in our management books.
Free book worth £28 with first 20 tool credits.substantial book discounts for firms/organisations

So refreshing to have a book where all the research and theory of managing people has been distilled down for you and served up in a practical way that can help managers apply this best practice to real situations.

Robbo, HR Manager, Accreditation firm

In the book, regular reflections ask you to consider your own firm and how you might apply that theory. I found those reflections to be thought-provoking and, in many cases, revealing. I will definitely be a better manager having read this book. Highly recommended.

DanB, Manager, Big 4 consulting firm
Strategy from foundations to results and repeat

The argument for strategy in civil society organisations

Written 10th March 2024. 2 min read

A strategy is a model of a reality – a reality that visionaries and senior managers hope will in time come to pass in the civil society organisation. Visionaries and senior managers in civil society organisations must think hard about the future.
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Building organisation strategy on sand

Written 31st January 2024. 4 min read

Vision, mission, aims, and values. Four trite statements. Strategy built from them is likely based on sand. Strategy begins with the more basic questions like stakeholder needs and problems.
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A framework for people management

Written 25th September 2023. 4 min read

The essence of people management? That people have a value. People as employees are not a resource. People have the right to be treated well and for the manager to believe in each employee’s career. In return, the employee will give good service.