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Building internal management training with BYPM3

Blog Post

Written by John Berry on 17th April 2023.0

2 min read


Training employees must, of course, be targeted to their needs – needs to take on new skills and learn new knowledge or needs to recover old rusty competencies. And determination of needs is a matter of analysis by managers.

But that said, there are many topics that we can identify as typical. And these are featured in our third edition of Because Your People Matter: a playbook for managers, entrepreneurs, and leaders. Here are some examples, with references to pages in the book.

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The four-box model of talent management

How does society affect career development of young people?

White Paper

Written by John Berry on 4th May 2017. Revised 3rd April 2023.

16 min read


This paper is about how the wider society in which a young person lives, is educated and works affects their career options, decisions and subsequent development. It considers how young people make decisions and what influences those decisions. It then describes the context of the wider society, drawing on sociology. In drawing conclusion this essay suggests that one cannot separate the individual and society in careers management and coaching.

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Employing Foreign Workers Abroad

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Written by John Berry on 2nd May 2017. Revised 1st April 2023.

35 min read


Managers can find it extremely attractive to ‘employ’ foreign staff resident abroad. Engaging workers in foreign countries is complex. In many cases it is better to trade at arms length through business to business agreements, paying against invoice. But that won't suit many firms, particularly where they have constraining upstream contracts. They must employ workers locally. Here are all the issues for firms wanting to gain worker services in both EU and non-EU countries.

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When does a contractor become an employee?

Article

Written by John Berry on 6th May 2017. Revised 1st April 2023.

4 min read


It's not always easy to know whether someone is classed as an employee or as a contractor. Many managers would want it one way or the other but unfortunately it’s not up to management. Others such as HMRC or an Employment Tribunal will make the decision.

The recent, very public, contest between Gary Lineker and the UK's HMRC (which HMRC lost) is a case in point that luckily (for Lineker) went the contractor's way. Few contractors have the resources to put up such a fight. Read more about the tests used.

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So which psychometric?

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Written by Sue Berry on 14th March 2023. Revised 24th March 2023.

10 min read


There's such an argument in practitioner circles about which psychometric test to use. Some say 'simpler the better' whilst others say 'accuracy first'. Others focus on the moral and ethical issues in providing any unfiltered information to test respondents. So how to make sense of this debate?

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Psychometric Testing

What Are OD and HR?

Article

Written by John Berry on 9th May 2017. Revised 24th March 2023.

3 min read


Organisational development (OD) is different from human resource management (HRM). Organisational development involves exploring options that will permit strategies to be achieved. OD techniques such as modelling permit outcomes to be predicted and the right plan to be selected. People are of course the lifeblood of any firm. They join, they leave, and in between they have to be managed. Everyone who manages or supervises people has to double as an HR generalist. Here's the scope of HR and OD.

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