You cannot hide your behaviour on Twitter
By Wendy Kier, ABP Conference Speaker 2013 It’s very easy to identify on Twitter how effective an account is being managed. How we feel and our level of training is reflected in our behaviour through the patterns of our Tweets…
Taking Imagination, Creativity & Improvisation Seriously… Part 1. The 21st Century: Era of the corporate creative?
By Steve Chapman, ABP Conference Speaker 2013 The economist J.K. Gailbraith once said “The sole purpose of economic forecasting is to make astrology look credible”. Never before has the uncertainty he was alluding to been so present in our personal and…
Slowing Down is the New Speeding Up
By Tom Evans, ABP Conference Speaker 2013 Over the last decade or so, something insidious has sneaked into our lives and that is the notion that the world has gone 24x7. With 24 hour news and the ubiquity of the…
Did you notice anything different about me? New look ABP website launches today
The Association of Business Psychologists are very excited to announce the launch of their brand new website today, Tuesday 6th August. The redevelopment of the existing ABP website has been in the works for some time, but thanks to the…
Book Review: Taming the Pound: Making Money Your Servant, Not Your Master by Kim Stephenson
Beware, this fascinating book is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and will educate you in ways you didn’t expect! Whilst it is first and foremost about our relationship (or not) with money, it also sneaks in a lot about the…
The role of Positive Action in the NHS
Event report, London Group On the 18th June the London Group heard from Chartered Occupational Psychologist Harpal Dhatt and Human Resource Management Researcher Dr. Maddy Wyatt about the impact of using positive action interventions on enhancing the career and leadership potential…
Book Review: Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
In The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote on the highly improbable and unpredictable events that underlie almost everything about our world. In Antifragile, he writes a series of essays which convey his belief that uncertainty is desirable, even necessary. Taleb uses the…
Birkbeck Business Week, 24th-27th June 2013
Next week, the Business School at Birkbeck College are running a free series of lectures and events at the Bloomsbury campus, including academic and business speakers. The theme is sustainable working life and well-being and speakers including Willie Walsh, Chief…
Conference News: Speaker Programme Update
By Maria Gardner, Conference Dean This year’s Annual Conference is being held Thursday 3rd to Saturday 5th October in the beautiful new venue of Wokefield Park, Reading. With a new date, a new venue, and a very strong business-focused theme,…
Your future as a Business Psychologist and how to prevent it happening
Event report, London Group On the 16th April the London Group heard from Mac (Alistair) MacPherson of Trinity Consulting Group, who assembled a startling set of facts which give business psychology practitioners a clear overview of what is truly happening…
Running for Robbie the Robot: Conference Team report from the Reading half Marathon
By Marius Marisca, Conference Team Member While organising this year’s Annual ABP Conference, the committee wanted to keep the tradition of giving something back. The charity Each year, the Conference Team nominates a local charity to support, and this year…
From not-working to networking. Part 2
...Building confidence for building connections Event report, North West Group On Monday 15th April the North West ABP group heard from two great speakers who had a very different approach to networking. Sean Heneghan and Angie Ingman, both Occupational…