National Learning Institute

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...

Blogging – the heroes in all of us

Everyone has a blog these days, including it seems a number of CEOs. Some organisations have even told their senior managers they should blog (internally) - the reason? To better communicate perhaps? One manager I spoke with has just started receiving blogs from her senior managers, who have all been told they need to display more of themselves...