Does your place in the family pecking order impact on your personality? Is it possible that being born first...
Jackie Prendergast
Jackie Prendergast is a dynamic and focused HR and business professional with over 15 years experience in both public and private sector environments. She is a firm believer in the concept of delivering excellence through, and with people and strongly supports an ethos of continuous learning and development in the achievement of goals. Jackie established her own HR & Management Consulting practice - Consulting Excellence - in 2007. Working primarily with SMEs and private clients Jackie provides a range of HR advice, support and services. She has written a number of articles on C.V. preparation and Interview Skills as well as a short Interview Guide (E-book). She is also a business mentor with Dublin City Enterprise Board’s Mentor Panel. In addition Jackie runs an online network for SMEs (and consultants / service providers operating in that space) on LinkedIn - SME Links Ireland.
Posts by Jackie Prendergast:
Management
Middle Child at Work?
by on July 15th, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Category: HR and recruitment, Motivation, Relationships, Self- development, leadership, workplace relationships
Tags: behaviour, Birth Order Theory, DISC, leadership, management, Managing people, Myers Brigg, performance, personality traits, psychometrics
Management
Inspiration overload?
by on March 17th, 2010 | 19 Comments »
Category: Self- development, SugarTone, leadership
Tags: creativity, development, growth, harnessing creativity, idea generation, idea management, Innovation, inspiration, mind mapping, SugarTone
We all have great ideas. The trouble is we often don't get to develop them because we simply don't remember what they were. How can you harness those ideas?
Management
Forget recession proofing, it is time for recovery proofing! 8 strategies to help get you and your people ready
by on February 17th, 2010 | 18 Comments »
Category: HR and recruitment, leadership
Tags: Advice, business, business growth, business planning, business re-engineering, business re-modelling, business recovery, business strategy, business survival, communication, creativity, employee engagement, employee motivation, Innovation, inspiration, leadership, management, organisation
Lots of business owners and CEOs alike got caught on the hop by this recession. There is every likelihood that those same business owners and CEOs will again be caught on the hop by the upturn when it comes...
Management
Recruitment – 10 key steps to getting the right person, first time!
by on January 26th, 2010 | 35 Comments »
Category: HR and recruitment
Tags: competencies, competency based interviews, cost of bad hire, CV, DISC, getting the right person for the job, interviewing, interviews, job analysis, job description, job interviews, job profile, Myers Brigg, online recruitment, psychometric testing, recruitment, reference checks, shortlisting
Recruiting the right person for the job is a very serious business. One which even the most experienced managers and business people can get wrong. And that mistake can be extremely costly. Here are 10 key steps to helping you get it right, first time.
Lots of people write business plans and then leave them to gather dust. Others run a mile from the very notion of a business plan. But is it just a paper exercise or what is it all about? Do you really need one and iIs there a simple way of approaching it?
Management
“There is nothing as queer as folk” – Small business and team dynamics
by on December 3rd, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Category: HR and recruitment
Tags: business performance, team development, team dynamics, team growth, team performance, team profiling
You will be aware that people don’t always get along together, don’t always gel. There is often conflict and clashes of personality and within groups regularly there is confusion about...
Management
An interviewer's perspective: where does it all go wrong?
by on December 1st, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Category: HR and recruitment
Tags: interview disasters, interview questions, interview techniques, interviews, job interviews
Having interviewed a lot of people over the years I have seen lots of interviews go wrong. Here are just some of the things that you should try to avoid!
Management
Rewarding poor performers - are you guilty?
by on November 24th, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Category: HR and recruitment
Tags: managing performance, Motivation, People management, poor perfomers, under-performance
Do you reward under-performance? It may sound strange but it is a regular occurence in organisations. And of course the problem is that we don't think about it as "rewarding" and we certainly don't consider the impact it has on our high performers.
When you think of leaders and leadership what or who do you think about? For many it is Barack Obama, Nelson Mandella or maybe...
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