t-three are recruiting. . .

t-three is looking for an enthusiastic trainee or junior consultant to join our growing team. You will be based at home, probably in the South of England (south of Birmingham) but be able to travel extensively within the UK.
You will probably be a graduate with a few year’s learning & development and/or business experience.

Please send your CV with a short covering letter to me at dplumb@t-three.co.uk explaining why you would be an outstanding candidate for this role and why specifically, you would like to join t-three. Please also include your salary expectations. We are able to be somewhat flexible and would consider someone who wanted to work only 4 days a week, but essentially this is a full-time role.

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Top Ten Tips: Put the Christmas Sparkle in Employee Engagement

As the end of another tough year approaches, employee input and overall engagement levels can begin to wane as the business gradually winds down. However, the weeks leading up to Christmas can be extremely valuable to an organisation and, if approached correctly, can have a real impact on the company’s success in future months by providing a vital head start for the New Year.
 
1. Take stock of the year so far

A powerful way to improve the overall business function is to take staff feedback into account. Ask employees what the business highlights have been for them, what needs to be improved and how. Once accumulated, utilise feedback to identify areas for improvement and prioritise these for next year. To maintain engagement, keep staff informed regularly about plans and developments.

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Beating the Time Bandits

We live in a fast-paced world, filled with infinite possibilities and opportunities and it is easy to feel overwhelmed.  What do we choose to concentrate our efforts on?  How much can we keep saying yes to?  How long will all this work take?  How do we handle unexpected interruptions? 

To deal with this situation, many of us try to cram more into 24 hours than is humanly possible to do and get so caught up in urgent demands that we never get to see what is most important.  In many organisations, it’s not absenteeism that’s the most pressing people challenge, it’s ‘presenteeism’ that’s the real issue. In other words, those people who seem to think it’s a great idea to stay in the office from 8am to 9pm, whether or not they’ve got any actual work to do.

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Don’t be SAD because winter’s coming!

We’re nearing the end of November and the weather has turned distinctly chillier. Not yet late for work because I had to scrape the ice off the car but I know it’s probably just a matter of days. Summer (what there was of it) has definitely turned into Autumn and that got me thinking about what impacts the seasons have on people’s behaviour and performance at work.

You’ll probably have heard of the condition SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), where a small minority of unfortunate people suffer extreme ill effects from sunlight deprivation in the winter – a condition that can be effectively treated by spending time under UV lamps. But what about the rest of us? How might we be affected by the calendar year (and not just by the end of our financial years!)?

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Success Secret: Change Your Internal Dialogue

Article by Geoffrey James.

Don’t talk yourself out of success. Improving the words you use to describe your own experience can make your future brighter.

Everyone in business knows that words are important. Some companies spend millions of pounds to get the perfect wording for their corporate, marketing, and sales messages.

Since words are important, it’s absolutely crazy to be careless when you’re communicating with the most important person in your business world: you!

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