by Andy Habermacher | Jun 7, 2019 | Education, Leadership, Personality
Private education has seen an upturn in investment in recent years and respective growth in school groups and investors specialising in this field. We are fortunate to have collected some refined data into personalities of both investors and educators and this gives...
by Jenny Watson | Jun 7, 2019 | HR, Leadership, Personality
This article is the second part of my humble attempt to describe core elements of the HR value chain using examples provided by the modern oracle that is our television. If you’re not sure why on earth I would think something like this is a good idea or indeed you...
by Jenny Watson | May 9, 2019 | HR, Leadership
I have definitely found, as I’ve got older, that one of my new favourite pass times is yelling at my TV. For me, nothing provides better opportunity for this than reality or documentary ‘True Crime’ programs. These normally detail a catalogue of bad decisions,...
by Jenny Watson | May 9, 2019 | HR, Leadership, Personality
Brace yourself for an unpopular opinion. As a serial HR Director, I had always maintained that strategic HR, its alignment with organisational strategy and impact on organisational behaviour wasn’t really that complicated at all. Not many people agreed with me....
by Andy Habermacher | May 9, 2019 | Leadership, Neuroscience, Personality
What the science does and doesn’t say We are all drawn to the stories of successful people and their little secrets to success. We also are drawn to simple stories of their success – the one single thing that makes an individual successful. It is no different to...
by Jenny Watson | Apr 8, 2019 | Leadership, Personality
Or why using good psychometrics (like Leading Brains Assessments) makes good business sense So, you’ve probably heard the expression “culture eats strategy for breakfast!” Most likely you’ve heard it delivered with a smug expression by someone in the office who...
by Andy Habermacher | Apr 8, 2019 | Education, Leadership, Neuroscience
You may wonder why it seems so hard to do something about climate change despite the potentially disastrous impact on our future lives and generations. Well, this has bothered me for a while so I decided to collect a list of the reasons based on my expertise in...
by Jenny Watson | Mar 4, 2019 | Personality
So, February – widely considered to be the gloomiest month of the year – has now passed us by in a haze of division, arguments, disagreement and misunderstandings. The biggest harbinger of this February doom? Brexit? American politics? No. Valentines day. Across the...
by Andy Habermacher | Feb 28, 2019 | Education, Neuroscience
Words: 2 245 words in main article without references and exercises: Reading Time: about 7 minutes Brain development from newborn to adult is surrounded by many assumptions, myths, and false models. This is also a singularly fascinating area – space won’t allow...
by Jenny Watson | Feb 6, 2019 | Personality
OK, show of hands of those who have emerged, blinking and bleary eyed, from the festive season, clutching determinedly to a mental list of newly forbidden vices? Perhaps it’s the dreaded smoking, or something to do with food and drink? Not cutting your toe nails in...
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