Camino Group

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Baena near Cordoba. Wow this Camino is tough! But the cities at the end of each stage are stunning

Brilliant. The Riverford app is great for finding suitable recipes for a particular vegetable.

Covid shapes new food habits Cooking more from scratch, throwing less food away and trying a veg box are among the widespread new food habits in the UK, a new YouGov survev finds.

Please oh please.

May could face loss of seat over #Abbott comment electoral breach #GE17 #BBCQT As the SKWAWKBOX reported on Sunday, Theresa May has been reported to police over false claims she made during Friday’s BBC Question Time special about Diane Abbott and police DNA records. Ma…

I have been interviwed by Francesca because when I grew up I always wanted to be a ballerina. I never dreamt I would become a Head of People and Organisation Development/assistant director of HR. Anyway in the end I ran away to join the gypsies and dance and sing.

What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up - YouTube http://www.francescacassini.com What do you want to be when you grow up? Have you ever asked yourself that question no matter how grown up you are in years? ...

Well as I bow out of HR (I haven't renewed my CIPD subscription) and head off to Spain to study flamenco, write, reflect on a career not succeeding in increasing productivity in organisations or increase the employee's voice I think this article proposes an interesting solution. In my last role I had a crisis when after a conversation with one of the world's leading academics studying motivation I realised the performance management system I was rolling out in the organisation I was consulting to was counter to a culture that depended upon creativity. It ended with me having a very robust conversation with my boss in my performance review shortly after and I left.
The previous project ended with the outsourced HR function being brought back inside (Hallelujah!) and the employee communications role being moved to marketing. I had been working with them on the culture and values and employee engagement. The end point (actioned after I had finished the project) was rolling out the internal employee brand to be the overall customer brand. We had done something very brave (which I was worried how it would be taken up) - talking about Love with the employee brand. This is now this is the LV= corporate brand. Most of my time before that was spent helping to introduce about 40 corporate HR policies which quite frankly I hated and I found exceedingly boring - but it had come up on the risk register and internal audit so we did it. Which would I rather? Oh aligning the employee and corporate brand and working out how we would align the two.

Time to blow up H(B)R - and the CIPD as well? Harvard Business Review (HBR), the world’s premier intellectual business magazine, likes to publish pieces which are challenging, rigorous and readable. For example Justin Fox’s piece ‘What We’ve Learned from the Financial Crisis’ (November 2013) is still on the money today, as the EU political-fina…

Really good example of an organisation transformation case. Camino's work is very much on the same lines - using action learning and appreciative enquiry on a basis of personal awareness leading to emotional intelligence, measurement and getting change leaders to be examples.

White Paper: Increasing Employee Engagement at Komatsu Can we increase Employee Engagement in an economic challenge? What's the benefit? Case study at Komatsu plant using "Vital Signs" and "Emotional Intelligence": engagement increased from 33 to 70%....

Just planning my next series of Soul Journey workshops. The first will be the Dark Night of the soul or Starting out on the Journey. The Dark Night of the Soul is based upon the work of Dr Thomas Moore with additions from my experiences walking the Camino de Santiago.

With Imogen Woodford of Social-i social media school. Highly recommended. Ive learned a huge amount in the weekly 2 hour sessions at the Guild Hub, Bath.