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20 December 2014

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New Resource

Managing Discipline guidelines article.

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17 December 2014

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Empowerment

Stopped off at a motorway service station for a takeaway coffee and went into a nearly-empty Starbucks.

When I asked for a coffee, I was asked for my name. When I asked, 'Why', I was told that they did this to make sure that customers received the right order when they are busy - but they still have to do this even when they're not busy!

I said 'Forget it' because I didn't want to buy from a company that couldn't trust their staff to make intelligent decisions.

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10 December 2014

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2 December 2014

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Using MS Office across devices

One of the frustrations of having so many different computers, laptops and other devices is having a single document format that you can use across these devices.

The obvious answer would be to use Microsoft Office but the mobile versions of these programs couldn't be used unless you subscribed to Office 365 at a hefty 5.99 a month. It's possible to create, open, edit and save Microsoft Office files using Open Office, but I found that it made too many changes to make it viable. Other applications like Docs To Go claim to be compatible with Microsoft Office but again I found that most of these seemed to be based on Open Office with the same limitations.

However, everything has changed with Microsoft's recent announcement that it has made a partnership with Dropbox and that its mobile apps are free to use for creating and editing Microsoft Office files. You won't get synchronisation unless you subscribe to Office 365, but downloading from, and uploading to Dropbox is not great hardship.

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28 November 2014

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New Icebreaker - Assertion

This exercise will help your group understand the difference between aggression, submission and assertion.

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24 November 2014

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Using two screens may change our brains

Simultaneously using mobile phones, laptops, TVs and other media devices could be changing the structure of our brains, according to new University of Sussex research.

The research supports earlier studies showing connections between high media-multitasking activity and poor attention in the face of distractions, along with emotional problems such as depression and anxiety.

A study published today in PLOS ONE on 24 September reveals that people who frequently use several media devices at the same time have lower grey-matter density in one particular region of the brain compared to those who use just one device occasionally.

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26 September 2014

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What Color is Your Parachute

Now available for pre-order.

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11 August 2014

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