11 Jan 2003
| by Jeremy Bullmore
IF I TAKE MORE LEAVE I'LL LOSE MY JOB. I've been absent from work a lot over the past eight months, with family-related problems. At first, my employers were understanding , but now they've given me an ultimatum - no more absences for the next three months if I want to keep my job.
01 Jan 2003
| by Jeremy Bullmore
STRATEGY FOR WINNING A PAY RISE. I know I'm underpaid for what I do, yet my employer won't hear me out. I've now seen a competitor and been offered a job with a vastly increased salary. Can I use this as a bargaining chip for a pay rise with my current employer, or will this simply lead to unpleasant...
01 Jan 2003
| by Miranda Kennett
I've been in my job for a few years, and have worked my way up. I'm now next in line for my boss's job as head of department.
01 Jan 2003
| by OCTAVIUS BLACK, MD of The Mind Gym, www.themindgym.com
BRAIN FOOD: Route to the top ... Power presenting - Focus on your desired outcome. What do you want your audience to think, feel and do differently as a result of your presentation? What do you want them to think about you?
01 Jan 2003
| by SIR BRIAN PITMAN, chairman of Lloyds TSB Group till his
retirement in 2001, is a senior adviser to Morgan Stanley
BRAIN FOOD: If I had to start again .. - I suppose we should not be surprised - given their competitive nature - that many businessmen would like to have been a professional sportsman.
01 Jan 2003
| by HELEN KIRWAN-TAYLOR, helen@kirwantaylor.demon.co.uk
BRAIN FOOD: Are you suffering from ... Learned helplessness - As Pavlov discovered, if you routinely give a dog an electric shock, it soon becomes helpless, feels unable to change and becomes depressed.
01 Jan 2003
| by MATTHEW GWYTHER, Editor
EDITORIAL: Welcome to a new age of enlightenment - Thinking of a change of career? It's that time of year. You could, apparently, do worse than consider a move to professional football. Even the more modest journeymen toiling in the first division command an average of pounds 175,000 a year. Not a bad...
01 Jan 2003
| by DAVID THOMAS
IN MY OPINION - Chartered Management Institute companion David Thomas, Whitbread's CEO, outlines how the leisure sector is responding to rising consumer demand.
01 Jan 2003
| by EVAN DAVIS, economics editor of the BBC
CUTTING ROOM - My debt to three Lib Dem moles; Pizza Express on the rack; campaigning for an earlier Budget; look inside the box first; feelgood factors ... Evan Davis at large.
01 Jan 2003
BRAIN FOOD: It just might work - Talking talent - If you want to find and keep the best talent, answer 'four core questions that every employee wants clarified'. These questions, says Richard J Leider of the Inventure Group in Business - The Ultimate Resource (Bloomsbury) are (1) Where are we going?...