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Christmas in the desert
I’m currently in the United Arab Emirates near Al Ain doing some selection and assessment and leadership training work. The Abu Dhabi Civil Service is trying to assess each of its senior Police Officers objectively, and is using Occupational Psychologists to do it. It’s been really interesting doing this type of work in such an [...]
Can Gerry Robinson fix….us?
I watched the TV programme Can Gerry Robinson Fix Dementia Care Homes? tonight. It was the best programme of the year. Moving, revealing, raw; at times it was physically painful to watch. The programme revealed the standard of care in some of our dementia care homes to be little short of inhumane. One man, Ken, [...]
Career Paralysis – A New Bloom Presentation
Career Paralysis: 5 Reasons Why Our Brains Struggle With Career Decisions (And How Psychology Can Help) View more presentations from Rob Archer. RSS 2.0: http://bloomblogrob.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
How well do we listen?
Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning. A man with a violin plays six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx. 2 thousand people passed through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle-aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed [...]
What type of snake is this?
UPDATE: THIS SNAKE HAS NOW BEEN IDENTIFIED. IT WAS A TIGER SNAKE! READ ABOUT TIGER SNAKES AND HOW ANGRY THEY ARE ABOUT LIFE HERE. Look, I just really want to know what type of snake we saw near the Great Ocean Road in Australia. Can anyone help? RSS 2.0: http://bloomblogrob.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
How does personality fit with the communication we need at work?
Remote working, or employees working away from the traditional, fixed workplace has seen a sudden boom in recent years. Due to a range of sociological, economical and technological advances, it is continuing to rise and in fact, 74% of UK small and medium sized business are already using remote workforces. Psychological research has already looked [...]
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Conference, Melbourne
I attended the recent ACT Workshop in Melbourne led by Kirk Strosahl, co-founder of ACT. It was brilliant and came at a good time for Bloom. We’re just completing our first ever e-brochure listing the services we offer to organisations, and in this we outline how Bloom is pioneering the use of ACT in organisational [...]
Why would anyone live in London?
Sydney and Melbourne are so fabulous that it’s hard to remember, when you return to the Piccadilly Line on a dark Monday afternoon, why you would ever choose to live in London. It’s a seductive illusion to imagine that moving to somewhere warmer, cleaner, safer and with more space will bring greater happiness. (In fact [...]
Holiday
Have just got back from Australia – 3 weeks of work, conferencing and holidaying. It was fabulous. RSS 2.0: http://bloomblogrob.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Bloom Blog Wordle
What do we talk about on this blog? Curious, I thought I’d create a Wordle for the last two years, and this is what it looks like: RSS 2.0: http://bloomblogrob.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss