Santa’s Silos

For an update on the latest HR and brand management issues at Santa’s toy factory, take a trip to: http://silobusting.wordpress.com

Science of Persuasion (or how to get someone to do what you want them to do…)

Great animated video on the science (six universal principles) of persuasion, based on the research of Dr. Robert Cialdini, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing, Arizona State University.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFdCzN7RYbw&list=UU8IMseLCZx2BZe3thxHXnog&index=1&feature=plcp

Your brain on a slow website…

Ten ways to get people to change

How do you get leaders, employees, customers – and even yourself – to change behaviours?  Executives can change strategy, products and processes until they’re blue in the face, but real change doesn’t take hold until people actually change what they do. Check out the HBR blog for some useful suggestions:

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/09/ten_ways_to_get_people_to_chan.html

Boardroom lottery

What are your chances of reaching the top of the career ladder based on your gender, age, ethnic group and more? Play the OU Boardroom Lottery challenge to find out:

Boardroom Challenge 

The challenge was inspired by Hilary Devey’s Women at the Top BBC2 TV series.

The eyes have it (or do they?)

If you read the Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) literature it often points towards the ‘fact’ that certain sorts of eye movement are associated with lying. For example, that looking up to the right suggests a lie, whereas looking up to the left is associated with telling the truth. Surprisingly little research has been conducted to test whether this is the case… Well, now it has, and the conclusion is that eye movements are not related to lying.  Which makes sense, especially if you know anything about neuroscience. It’s also in line with other research that suggests that facial cues, in general, are poor indicators of lying. Yep, it really is just an itchy nose or a ticklish ear.

More info: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0040259

Five tips for great presentations

Executives are the Simon Cowell of the business world: impatient, critical, often caustic. But they’re also desperately searching for talent. How do you make the right impression? Is the secret just to tell a good ‘story’? Here’s five hot tips to get you going:

http://www.slideshare.net/speakingppt/5-tips-for-presenting-to-executives-13959919