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Does the Emotional Freedom Technique actually do anything? A new study

One of the more controversial emotion regulation techniques to appear over the last 10 years is the Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT. The basis of EFT, or ‘tapping’ as it often known, is a mixture of cognitive therapy and somatic or sensory stimulation and involves fingertip pressure and tapping on several ‘acupressure’ points on the […]

#EFT #emotion regulation #Emotional Freedom Technique #Stress #tapping #work psychology

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Data Driven Decision-making And Lean Six Sigma – A New Study

As the penetration of technology increases its pace within businesses and organisations around the world, organisations are increasingly turning to technology to assist with large-scale data driven decision-making. Many decisions within organisations are now dependent on both the technology and the quality and currency of the data being used. Organisational metrics Organisations are also pretty […]

#data driven decision-making #decision-making #lean six Sigma

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When overqualified people may be your best option – new research

Overqualified professionals It is common these days to find vastly over qualified professionals being hairdressers, taxi drivers, waiters/waitresses, etc. Additionally, many jobseekers these days intentionally omit academic qualifications, work experience and senior roles they have held in order to obtain a job for which they would normally be considered to be overqualified. Experienced and well-qualified […]

#Human Resources #overqualified #qualifications

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How Resilient Organisations Respond to Low Chance – High Impact Events

Resilient organisations: Dealing with sudden unexpected and unplanned for emergencies, is not easy for any organisation. However resilient organisations do things very differently. There is no doubt that the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic has, and is, currently creating significant levels of disruption and uncertainty for many organisations, both large and small. What are termed as low […]

#emergency #improvisation #organisational development #organisational resilience #organisations #pandemic #uncertainty

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A new study on technology trends and practices – Agile architecture

A new study looking at the agile technology and architecture trends, practices and success factors in teams and organisation. Underpinning much of the technological development is an agile digital architecture that is based on versatile, constantly changing and evolving software, that is flexible and has the capability to learn as it is being used. Digital […]

#agile #agile architecture #agile methods #agile practices #challenges #productivity #technology #trends

The cost of not being able to be emotionally honest at work – A new study

Many workers, such as shop service counter employees, hospitality workers etc. are required to interact with customers with a smile and continue to be positive and upbeat, regardless of their own feelings. This process, known as emotional labour can have very real consequences… Emotional Labour Originally, the term referred to individuals who were in frontline […]

#Emotion #emotional honesty #emotional Labour #Gender #well-being

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Digital Transformation and its difference from IT-enabled Transformation – New research

Understanding how to differentiate between digital transformation and IT enabled organisational transformation is more than just semantics. New research not only shows what the difference is, but also what knowing what the difference is can save an organisation a lot of trouble. The idea of digital transformation The idea has grown in both importance for […]

#change #digital transformation #IT enabled organisational transformation #Organisational change #organisational identity #organisational transformation #transformation #value proposition

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Why Some People Learn Better Using Collaborative Learning Techniques

Collaborative Learning Collaborative or cooperative learning is becoming increasingly popular, especially in digital formats with the rise of a plethora of digital collaboration tools. There is a continual move away from teacher led learning and ideas of ‘knowledge transfer’, which are increasingly being shown to be ineffective in terms of long-term learning, towards a more […]

#cooperative learning #creativity #critical thinking development #group learning #knowledge construction #learner autonomy #learning #learning outcomes #locus of control #proactivity

Does failure really lead to learning and innovation?

Innovation and failure There is a saying in business about failure. You are going to fail. Many times. So fail fast and learn fast. The standard rhetoric around failure and organisations encountering problems and disruptions are that it invariably leads to innovative problem-solving and innovation. The question is whether this idea that failure leads to […]

#failure #innovation #innovation behaviour #knowledge management #learning #learning from failure #organisational development #organisational innovation #organisational problem-solving #problem-solving #problems

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Occupational licensing increases prices and reduces entrants? A new study

A new study looking at the impact of occupational, professional licensing, its core intentions, and potential downsides has had some interesting findings. Occupational and professional licensing is an increasing phenomenon, which has grown alongside increasing the professionalisation of occupations. A previous (2013) study found that approximately 30% of the entire workforce is required to gain […]

#licensing #number of practitioners #occupational licensing #price #pricing #professional licensing #training

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