Browsing All Posts published on »September, 2011«

The law or us?

September 30, 2011 by

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Who’s responsible for improving UK workplace discrimination? This week we’re please to welcome another new fab guest blogger; Claire Walsh, managing partner of Brighton-based leadership development, executive coaching and learning & development consultancy firm LCP. Inequality in the workplace – in recruitment, promotion, salary and treatment – could be down to many kinds of discrimination. […]

The Rules of Engagement

September 28, 2011 by

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A seminar on Employee Engagement With guest speaker and author of ‘The Engagement Manifesto’, Alan Crozier Campbell Urquhart, Managing Director of The Urquhart Partnership: “As an HR, Recruitment and Training consultancy we are acutely aware of the problems and issues that companies face when employee engagement is handled poorly;  so we fully understand why so much […]

A ‘Quite Interesting’ take on team building games!

September 27, 2011 by

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I love a good fact, me. Almost just as much as I love reciting them back to others (much to their delight, I’m sure….) Which, of course, is why I love the BBC’s wonderful ‘Q.I.’ (or Quite Interesting). Watching it the other night (Series 9, Episode 3), I found myself nodding in amusement and recognition […]

Ending social media week on a high!

September 23, 2011 by

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Hello blog readers! For those of you who read reguarly, you’ll know how excited we were when we learned that Social Media Week was coming to Aberdeen! Well, today was the day; #SMWAbz hit town and we’ve been having a lovely time so far down here at Creative Space (@CreativeSpaceFW) ! – there have been a lot of […]

hUPpy birthday, sweet sixteen!

September 18, 2011 by

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Hip, Hip Hooray – it’s our birthday today! Yep, that’s right – and it’s a special one too – we’re ‘Super Sweet Sixteen’! But sadly, MTV aren’t coming to film our party… Wow – 1995 seems like a long time ago, yet the time has flown by for us. Did you know, that when we were […]

And the winner is….

September 16, 2011 by

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Cushydoos! Woohoo! Yep – cushydoos are absolutely delighted and proud that we can now officially say that The cHeRries Awards is the Best Awards Scheme in Scotland! Whatsmore,  the Young Enterprise Grampian Company Finals event came away with a commendation from the judges too! Happy faces all around – so a huge thanks goes out to everyone who’s been involved with both events over […]

Wish us luck (Part 2)….

September 15, 2011 by

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Following the success of The Urquhart Partnership winning the Grampian Business Awards Employer of the Year category this year, our associate company, cushydoos, is now up for two national awards in the Scottish Event Awards tonight. The first award nomination is for the cHeRries in the category of ‘Best Awards Scheme’  and the Young Enterprise Grampian […]

Who’s afraid of the Big Bad…..Boss?

September 12, 2011 by

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In his 2nd appearance as a guest blogger here at The UP Blog, Brian Rogers, Partner at Lewis Hymanson Small LLP in Manchester, asks: ‘Is it only in politics that managers can be brutal and volcanic?’ Alistair Darling, apparently talks in his new book about his old boss, the Prime Minister, as being ‘brutal and volcanic’, […]

We have a confession to make…

September 9, 2011 by

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Ok, deep breath… I don’t know if you realised, but some of us here at UP are a little bit geeky about social media. There! We said it. …Oh, you already knew? What gave it away? Anyway, now that you know, we just wanted to tell you how excited we are that Social Media week (19th […]

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