Posts Tagged "Useful Guides"

What Health and Safety?

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Would you work here?

We received these 11 pictures in an email last week. They were pertinent as we had just been discussing A Useful Guide to Managing Manual Handling with its authors Steve Amos and James Hammerton-Fraser. This Useful Guide is the first in the series of 3 Useful Guides relating to Health and Safety.

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Learning at Work Day 2011

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We've already had 1,000+ downloads of our free Useful Guides.

Yesterday we supported the UK’s Learning at Work Day by offering 4 of our Useful Guides for free. In fact they are still free until the end of May. Already we have had over 1,000 downloads.
If you would like to see what our Useful Guides are like go to www.pansophix.com/lawd-2011.html and you’ll be able to download A Useful Guide to Managing Meetings, A Useful Guide to Managing Teams, A Useful Guide to Minute Taking and A Useful Guide to Networking.
We are also offering 50% discount on any of our other Useful Guides. Just go to www.pansophix.co.uk and enter the Discount Code LAWD2011 at the checkout.
The offer expires at midnight on 31 May.

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The Benefits of Mentoring …

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Mentors can learn much from the mentoring experience.

Every year Ian and I get the opportunity to be potential mentors to one of the local University graduates (it is very competitive process because supply and demand are not always in line).

This year I was delighted to hear that I had been “matched” with a Finance degree graduate, Judith, and the deal is we have 6 x 2 hour mentor sessions over 4 months.

These sessions are best driven by the mentee – they know their objectives and my job is to help them in any way I can.

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The train did not take the strain …

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Can the train take the strain?

The connecting train between Brussels and Leuven was high tech. Two levels, aerodynamic and straight from Blade Runner.

I made my way “upstairs” and sat down.

A gentleman, dressed in a very smart business suit, headed for a seat, sat down and looked stressed.

He closed his eyes, put his head back and tried to drift off.

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A Tale of Two Daves … Dave II

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With the right motivation people deliver their best.

We always look forward to our recording sessions. We are fortunate to know a recording engineer called Dave who knows his stuff but also plays the drums (and we are short of a drummer) and he has had significant playing experience.

As a relative novice band it was invaluable for us to have someone like Dave to act as coach, mentor and advisor.

Unfortunately this week our vocalist, Janet, had suffered a complete loss of voice on the Friday, the day before our session.

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