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		<title>Flexible Working Is Good For Us!</title>
		<link>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2010/02/19/flexible-working-is-good-for-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of us work with varying degrees of flexibility these days and I for one would not have it any other way. And now research findings confirm that flexible working benefits all employees.
According to the report those of us who can determine our own working hours tend to have better mental health, blood pressure, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Help Needed for Older Workers</title>
		<link>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2010/02/17/more-help-needed-for-older-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s my birthday and so perhaps not the best day to learn that The Work Foundation is calling for more help for older workers.  After all, none of us wants to be reminded that the calendar can only go forwards.
Anyway, the call has come in response to the labour market statistics that are out today.
Commenting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gloomy Jobs Outlook According To Survey</title>
		<link>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2010/02/15/gloomy-jobs-outlook-according-to-survey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when we thought that the days  were getting a tiny bit longer, indicating that Spring cannot be far away, comes a report set to knock us all back again.
Redundancies look set to almost double this quarter, compared with the final quarter of 2009, among those employers that plan to make redundancies. Those employers expect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Its Management Not Money That’s The Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2010/02/05/its-management-not-money-that%e2%80%99s-the-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting slant on the current economic gloom: it’s not the spending cuts that threaten the delivery of public services, but the quality of front line management in the public sector.
That’s according to a new report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), which says that the ‘sporadic and often inadequate quality’ of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another call for more employee engagement</title>
		<link>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2010/02/04/another-call-for-more-employee-engagement-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employee engagement seems to be one of the buzz phrases of the moment. Latest to join in the call for more of it is Acas, the employment relations service.
It says it is encouraging UK businesses to prepare for the potential economic up-turn by focusing on employee engagement.
It has published a discussion paper that highlights simple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Call for More Employee Engagement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/?p=631</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Employee engagement seems to be one of the buzz phrases of the moment. Latest to join in the call for more of it is Acas, the employment relations service.
It says it is encouraging UK businesses to prepare for the potential economic up-turn by focusing on employee engagement.
It has published a discussion paper that highlights simple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Class Treatment – Courtesy of the NHS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I found myself an unwilling customer of my local hospital’s A&#38;E Department, having succumbed to a potentially life-threatening condition.
The hospital is quite new and so has had its share of teething troubles. Local residents also complain repeatedly about parking problems it causes and some grumble about the noise of the air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workplace Safety &#8211; A Step Too Far?</title>
		<link>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2010/01/19/workplace-safety-a-step-too-far/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2010/01/19/workplace-safety-a-step-too-far/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope that the 20,000 staff of Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) remembered to reverse park this morning &#8211; otherwise they apparently face the threat of disciplinary action.
 
Once they are inside their offices they also need to remember to hold onto handrails when using the stairs – or again they could be in trouble.
Of course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People-centred Approach Needed</title>
		<link>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2010/01/16/people-centred-approach-needed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2010/01/16/people-centred-approach-needed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study by The Work Foundation has confirmed what many of us already thought about leadership: that a people-centred approach works better than a controlling and target-driven approach.
The study: ‘Exceeding Expectation: the principles of outstanding leadership’ is based on over 250 in-depth qualitative interviews over two years within six major organisations.
Lead author Penny Tamkin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Training Right Date Looms</title>
		<link>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2010/01/13/training-right-date-looms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s only 12 weeks to go before employees gain their new right to request time for training. With that in mind the government is publishing guidance for employers about their new responsibility.
The introduction of the right will be phased, with employees in organisations with 250 or more people gaining it in April of this year [...]]]></description>
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