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10 things leaders should stop doing todayIt's not enough to just be effective. Today's leaders need to strive for continuous improvement and the place to start is to look in the mirror. 13 May 2013
10 ways to use coaching skills at workIn the last 10 years or so, coaching has become well used in work, in business and within organisations. Undoubtedly it has tremendous potential at many different levels. So how can we use these skills appropriately? 13 May 2013
Target marketing with LinkedInA wise mentor once said to me: Mike, you can be certain of one thing in your recruiting career. It starts with 'C' and ends with 'E' CHANGE. Every day you will see something new. 13 May 2013
Top tips for delivering a successful 'Roast'Picture the scenario. A long-standing colleague is leaving, heading off for pastures new. The company is holding a farewell party and you've been asked to deliver the 'roast'. 13 May 2013
How to deal with heckling during a presentation or trainingYou've planned and prepared your presentation, or training workshop, in detail. You've anticipated every eventuality. 10 April 2013

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Look beyond LinkedIn to find those undiscovered nuggetsIt's hard to imagine the old days of recruitment but a recruiter's candidate database was in his or her head or in a large filing cabinet. You couldn't search these CVs for keywords but had to rely on them being filed correctly by location or skill or just having a good memory to match jobs to candidates. 10 May 2013
Share and share alike can be the key to better agency staff retentionIn a challenging market, where budgets are under scrutiny and every contract is competitive, it can be difficult to meet the remuneration expectations of ambitious, upwardly mobile recruitment agency staff. 10 May 2013
Six steps to buying recruitment technology kit successfullyThe habit of buying and hoarding is not restricted to home life. I see it all the time in recruitment businesses too, where recruitment technology has been bought: to fix a problem, because their recruiters wanted it, or because the sales person gave them a great deal. 10 April 2013
Using crowd-sourcing to create organisational changeBarack Obama famously crowd-sourced the finance for his election campaign - a powerful example of the ability of new technology to create a great aggregate result out of lots of small voluntary actions. 10 April 2013