Does your organisation learn the lessons from its failures?
Do you have a system that promulgates lessons learned throughout your organisation?
Failures in a business are often swept under the carpet as those involved do not wish to dwell on them. And yet that is when the most valuable lessons can be learned. If a business is not to repeat such lessons they need to be recorded and promulgated.
This session will allow you to understand the lessons that can be learned from failures within a business and how to instigate a blame free culture that allows such lessons to...
Do you know how well you would face adversity as a leader?
Do you know how you would react under the pressure of failure?
Business leaders in our very turbulent world need to be able to react to both positive and negative situations. They need to be resilient in order to take their organisations through difficult environments and situations and yet they need to be clever enough to know when to change direction.
This session will allow you to understand the importance of resilience to a leader. It will look at how resilience and mental toughness work within an...
Britons have seen a three percentage point rise in their disposable income over the last quarter, according to a new report out today. On average, people in the UK now have eight per cent of their take home salary left each month, up from five per cent since last quarter.
The findings come from the latest Disposable Income Index from ISA provider Scottish Friendly, which examines people’s attitude towards saving and investing. According to the report, the increase in disposable income has prompted a rise in the levels of saving with 60 per cent of people in the UK now choosing to...
Devon County Council is carrying out £7 million of repairs on roads damaged during the wettest winter on record.
The County Council programme of work is underway on almost 250 repair schemes, restoring nearly 40 miles (63km) of roads across the county.
Devon received £7 million of Severe Weather Recovery funding to help with much needed road repairs. This was a share of £183.5 million made available by the Department for Transport in response to the impact of the severe winter weather
Since the grant allocation was announced earlier this year, Devon’s highways teams...
Hundreds of employees from a waste management firm which collects waste in Devon have geared up to take part in a 2,400 mile, UK cross-country cycle tour to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support.
The Big Ride cycle relay, organised by national recycling and waste management company SITA UK, staged a Grand Depárt from one of the company’s northern-most sites near Aberdeen on May 12 and will now finish at its most southerly facility in St Erth, Cornwall, on June 20 – six weeks later. (They are currently in Hampshire).
The winding route, designed to include as many of SITA...
Everys Solicitors in Exmouth has presented a cheque for £500 to the Ladies’ Starlight Walk top fundraiser.
By May 31, Helen Stoneman, from Cullompton, Devon, had raised £1,922.50 for Hospiscare following the 12km walk on May 10.
Her team, Anything But The Book, collectively hope to raise £5,000. Mrs Stoneman has boosted their total further by donating her prize money to Hospiscare.
Everys partner Kim Stradling and Katie Cuthbert, Hospiscare’s head of fundraising, presented Mrs Stoneman with her prize.
Ms Stradling said: “Everys congratulates Helen on her...
The Devon & Cornwall Police Partnership Community Volunteer Awards 2014 will reward and recognise those who give their time to support local neighbourhoods to build strong and cohesive communities.
Previously DaCCWA held an awards ceremony each autumn to acknowledge and celebrate the activities of watch schemes, supportive staff and partner agencies. Crimestoppers was also integral to these events and sponsored a young citizen award for several years.
Now, in conjunction with and supported by both DaCCWA and Crimestoppers, the new partnership wants to recognise and...
The Food Standards Agency has issued a call for people to stop washing raw chicken to reduce the risk of contracting campylobacter, a potentially dangerous form of food poisoning.
The call comes as new figures show that 44% of people always wash chicken before cooking it – a practice that can spread campylobacter bacteria onto hands, work surfaces, clothing and cooking equipment through the splashing of water droplets.
Campylobacter is the most common form of food poisoning in the UK, affecting an estimated 280,000 people a year. Around four in five of these cases come from...
Cyclists across Devon are encouraging others to join them by taking to two wheels during Bike Week this week.
Bike Week is the biggest cycling event in the UK, and last year over half a million people nationwide were encouraged to join in events and rethink their everyday journeys.
During the week, which runs until Sunday (June 22) the Travel Devon Roadshow will be visiting the Magnolia Centre in Exmouth today (Monday) 16 June and Newton Abbot Town Centre on Friday 20 June, where the team will have cycling information on initiatives such as adult cycle confidence sessions...
Skin cancer rates in the South West of England are twice the English average, according to new figures.
There were more than 800 new cases of melanoma diagnosed in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset in 2012, with more than 100 people dying from the disease.
The figures were released as part of a new campaign by Public Health England to raise awareness of skin cancer.
Professor Debra Lapthorne, centre director of the Devon, Cornwall and Somerset PHE Centre, said: "Statistics show that those living in the Devon, Cornwall and Somerset area are at an increased risk of...
