Dive into the archives.
- Twitter workout?
A recent study by Dr Tracey Alloway, a Psychologist from Stirling University has shown that video war games could enhance a key element of intelligence that is vital to success in life.
Keeping up to date on Facebook and solving Sudoku may have similar effects, however text messaging, Tweeting and watching YouTube are all likely to weaken [...]
- Nature v Nurture…
I’m always intrigued by the whole nature v nurture argument and I often smile when clients ask us the magic question of what makes high performers in the work place so successful. My argument back is typically we are what we are partly because of Mum and Dad (nature), partly down to the environment we’re [...]
- From lucky ties to angry genes. . .
We’re often asked about stress in the workplace and conflict management between shareholders. Whilst each case is different, we see recurring themes: one caused by underlying issues and the other by shorter lived and more situational issues.
At Psycuity we’re don’t deliver stress audits in the workplace, we try and identify the root cause of the problem, [...]
- Today’s trouble with tomorrow…
Academic invents a mathematical equation for why people procrastinate.
Today the Psycuity team came across this article by Urmee Khan in the Daily Telegraph. It summarises a 10 year study by Canadian Psychology Professor, Piers Steel, into why people put off tomorrow, what could be done today.
His study of 250 college students lead to a procrastination [...]
- Who am I?
Recently at Psycuity, we’ve seen a increase in demand for our Career Transition Programmes, where we have been helping some great people in the North West understand themselves in greater detail. This enables them to plan their future career moves in a more constructive way than simply staying in a job or industry because it’s all [...]
- 92% of employers wouldn’t . . .
. . . re-employ at least one member of staff and 17% would happily change the entire team.
Statistics – don’t you just love ‘em, but there’s more than a grain of truth in the survey conducted by SkillzBase and 10 Yetis about building teams. Hat’s off to the founders of SkillzBase Sam and Johnny Fianu for [...]
- Off BOFH begosh
You can tell it’s summer when the Register announces BOFHs (bastard operator from hell) are the focus of a research project using psychometric profiles to determine why they are different from their computer users and causes of stress.
- Web 2.0 and Recruitment
The latest Recruitment, retention and turnover report published by the CIPD in the main indicates that all the usual recruitment problems faced by businesses will remain or get slightly worse in the coming year.
We’ll pick up and comment on a few of the main issues facing businesses in later blogs, but here I’d like to [...]
- Forget the Apprentice, MBS results are in!
Back to school today – Manchester Business School, not to study this time but to receive the results of the MBA research project Psycuity sponsored.
After several successful meetings with the team of MBAs we were looking forward to the final presentation. With MBS being MBS, we can’t post the full results until we have their [...]
- MBS studies how Manchester people look for jobs!
Today was a really interesting day for Psycuity. As some of you may know, both Ian and Philip have previously studied MBA’s at Manchster Business School.
On a recent visit back to the school, Psycuity approached MBS about gaining the help of some of the current MBA students to do a study into the changing way [...]
