What Can Be Done during Office Break?

  By Caroline | June 18, 2013 - 9:24 am | Business Leave a comment

office break What Can Be Done during Office Break?What do you always do during office break? Do you fill the time to only have lunch and then wait for the break time ends and the working time starts again? If it’s the only thing you do, make a change now. Use the office break time to refresh your mind. What could you do? Continue reading →

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Why Do Your Children Hate You?

  By Dave | June 5, 2013 - 10:12 am | Business, Individual 1 Comment

hate Why Do Your Children Hate You?“When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God’s image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.”-Graham Greene.

Ideally, parents are the people who should be loved most by the children but nowadays a lot of children hate their parents. Does the same thing happen in your family? If it does, then do you know why does it happen? Continue reading →

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Career Pathways and Situated Learning (2)

  By Lily | April 11, 2013 - 7:23 am | Career, Employee Leave a comment
  • Situated Learning 2 Career Pathways and Situated Learning (2)Extramural expectations and commitments – competing role as mother and a break in the career path created associated issues of confidence and doubts of self-efficacy – expressed more explicitly than with the men. Continue reading →
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Career Pathways and Situated Learning

  By Lily | April 7, 2013 - 7:22 am | Career, Employee Leave a comment

Situated Learning Career Pathways and Situated Learning All of the women in the group had rich and involved careers, but the pathways towards becoming a leader were mostly described in a less clear and less overtly structured manner, certainly less overtly structured than the private sample. The extract from Catherine above amplified this point. Catherine’s timeline illustrates the variety of experiences, identities and roles. Continue reading →

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Inspirations to Become a Leader (3)

  By Lily | April 3, 2013 - 7:18 am | Employee, Leader Leave a comment

Inspirations3 Inspirations to Become a Leader (3)A lot of them ended up as people like school doctors or in child health clinics which have its place, certainly has its place but as a career it wasn’t what I personally wanted to do. This discussion from Catherine highlights a number of most significant and distinguishing aspects from the two previous male groups. Continue reading →

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Inspirations to Become a Leader (2)

  By Lily | March 30, 2013 - 7:18 am | Employee, Leader Leave a comment

Inspirations2 Inspirations to Become a Leader (2)I knew that, having moved off the developmental ladder that was in place in Newcastle – there were certain jobs you did, in a certain order. So I chose jobs with certain must-haves; working with people I respected because of their ability to be good doctors – the sort of doctor I wish to be and learn the variety of skills needed. Continue reading →

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Inspirations to Become a Leader

  By Lily | March 26, 2013 - 7:13 am | Employee, Leader Leave a comment

Inspirations Inspirations to Become a Leader What was most striking from the interviews with the women managers was their relationship with leadership: this was different to the men in terms of identity equivocation. Some of the women strongly saw themselves as leaders and had aspired to such a position. Continue reading →

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Influences on Women Managers’ Leadership Learning

  By Lily | March 22, 2013 - 7:13 am | Business, Leadership Leave a comment

Women Managers’ Influences on Women Managers’ Leadership Learning As with the previous two male groups there is a degree of similarity of underlying influences on leadership learning, reconfirming an emergence of common themes. However, these common influences are greatly shaped by structural conditioning within contexts and such structural conditioning has arguably a greater impact on women than for men. Continue reading →

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Differentiation of Leadership Learning

  By Lily | March 18, 2013 - 7:13 am | Leader, Training Leave a comment

Differentiation Differentiation of Leadership Learning Although there are striking similarities of influences on leadership learning, two aspects stand out as being different. The private sector group had a much greater emphasis towards the prominence of career pathways that appeared to structure and enable learning of leadership. It appeared that the end goal of being a leader was highly valued in the private sector. Continue reading →

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Seniority, Roles and Responsibility as Development Themes

  By Lily | March 14, 2013 - 11:02 am | Business, Organization Leave a comment

Development Themes Seniority, Roles and Responsibility as Development Themes There are a number of common themes between the public and private sector groups that relate to seniority and the interrelated issues of responsibility and the variety of roles. The more senior the individual, the greater the: Continue reading →

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