Articles

As part of our role in supporting continuous professional development, Proseminar is pleased to publish an ever expanding series of articles intending to interest, stimulate and provoke everyone with an interests in management and organisational development.

Features

Visit ourFeatures page for a range of articles providing information on ProSeminar’s approach to management development. Features include 'What makes ProSeminar special?' and 'Can training help you manage stress?'

Top Tips Series

ProSeminar’s ‘how to’ series ofTop Tips on topics such as writing e-mails, criticism skills, handling presentation nerves and leading an appraisal discussion.

Articles

• Reacting to Change - how do staff really come to terms with it?
  A fresh look at the way staff react to change from denial to transcendence.

• Can Managers Manage or is it a Matter of Priorities?
  Philip Moon picks up on recent research which casts doubt on the quality of British management.

• Can you Plan for such Uncertainty?
  Jean Pousson offers some thoughts to company directors and executives.

• Assessing Risk
  Jean Pousson reminds executives about their duties and responsibilities.

• Turning on your Creativity
  Got a management problem?  Need to identify new business opportunities or ways of doing things?  Got a report to write, a presentation to make or a training course to run?  If so, you’ll be wanting to harness your creative thinking capacity to generate new and effective ideas. 

• How to Get More Power
  A Machiavellian look at how to enhance personal effectiveness by getting more power at work.

• The Finance Quiz
  Test and develop your finance knowledge with Jean Pousson's quiz.

• Getting Support and Cooperation
  Philip Moon, ProSeminar’s MD, focuses on the importance of taking a pro-active approach to building working relationships and provides some practical tips.

• Training Room Management - Getting it right
  Getting the right environment for effective training.

• He Asked Me to Take My Clothes off
  Does the use of psychometrics in staff selection lead to an unfair balance of power? 

• Making Meetings Work
  Most managers and professionals spend a lot of time in meetings of various sizes and degrees of formality. Use this handout to help you and your colleagues cut out unnecessary meetings and improve the effectiveness of the meetings you do have.

• Making Strategy Work
  Jean Pousson discusses the common pitfalls of Strategy Implementation. 

• Would You Pass a Strategy Audit?
  Jean Pousson asks:  ‘why not have an occasional strategic health check as an on-going exercise?'