Five Ways We Connect With Local Business. You might remember Dudley College as where you trained for a trade, picked up a qualification, or set off into your career. But alongside all the teaching and learning, there’s another side to the College that often flies under the radar – the steady, behind-the-scenes work we [Read more…]
Why Showing Up Consistently Beats Showing Off. Ask any manager what they actually value most in their team and the answer is almost never “the most exciting person in the room.” It’s usually the one who does what they say they’ll do, when they said they’d do it. Reliability is the quiet career skill [Read more…]
When the Job Itself Is the Hard Bit. Mental Health Awareness Week ran 11–17 May this year. This year’s theme – chosen by the Mental Health Foundation – was Action, on the basis that awareness on its own only goes so far. With the week now done and the LinkedIn posts quietly fading, we [Read more…]
In our regular series where we look at well-known books and pull out the practical lessons our alumni can use at work, this month we’re picking up Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. If you read March’s piece on Cal Newport’s Deep Work and found yourself nodding along, this is the natural [Read more…]
How to Spot Hallucinations and Use AI More Confidently. Last month we wrote about choosing your first real AI project at work – picking something small, low-risk, and seeing what these tools can actually do. One of the things we mentioned in passing was that AI tools are confident even when they’re wrong. That’s [Read more…]
