National Learning Institute

Are You a Viral Manager?

The biggest thing in the news this week has been “Invisible Children – Koney 2012” a 30 minute video by the Invisible Children organisation aimed at garnering support against African warlords.

Why is this video so “big”?

It’s gone viral.  In less than 5 days it had more than 70 million views (at last count it was over 100...

Lying, will it get the better of you?

We all lie.  Surprising?  Maybe, but apparently it’s true (pun intended).  In fact it’s been estimated that on average we all tell between two and five lies per day.

Leonard Saxe, Ph.D., a polygraph expert and professor of psychology at Brandeis University, says, "Lying has long been a part of everyday life. We couldn't get through the...

Texts, transactions and relationships – what’s the connection?

Today people text more often than talk on the phone. For example in the US 88% of all teen phone calls are text messages (Pew Research Center 2010). In fact, this research showed that two thirds of teen texters say they are more likely to text their friends than talk to them by phone.

Staying with the US, in the wider population it has...

Respect, trust, confidence and Facebook

If you don't want to see your firm being slammed by an unhappy employee on Facebook, ask yourself whether you have a culture of recognition within your company. Because such comments invariably stem from someone's lack of trust in their employer, that comes down to poor management and leadership.Over the last two years, there's been a spate of...