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Are you worth coaching? Published on 19 November, 2009 by Douglas Macdonald

Paul Bridle, Leadership Methodologist, discusses the differences between coaching and mentoring, and asks whether you are worth coaching. Dekasu members may find this useful in deciding what kind of career support to seek.

There are no hard and fast definitions of coaching and mentoring, but at Dekasu, we focus on mentoring as a means of self-development. We consider it to refer to a relationship where knowledge and experience are imparted by a more experienced person to a less experienced one, particularly with regard to advanc…read more

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It's not the content, it's the delivery Published on 19 November, 2009 by Douglas Macdonald

Paul Bridle, Leadership Methodologist, talks to Political Presentation Coach, Graham Davies, about where leaders go wrong with presentations. Although the discussion focuses on political leaders, there are many parallel lessons for business leaders, and also for job interview candidates, if you imagine that the interview is essentially a presentation about the candidate.

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Paul Bridle, Leadership Methodologist Published on 19 November, 2009 by Douglas Macdonald

At Dekasu, we want to bring our members interesting and relevant content to help with career and personal development. Paul Bridle, an experienced consultant and speaker on leadership issues, has kindly allowed us to share his regular leadership video blogs with you. As an introduction, here is a short collage of Paul speaking to some of his corporate clients.

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The phrase that dare not mention its name Published on 18 November, 2009 by Douglas Macdonald

You’ve heard it before. Some Government official says it, and a media storm ensues. Are there? Aren’t there? What is the Government’s official position? What do the Treasury and the Bank of England say? The phrase that causes all the consternation and that is all but banned in the Cabinet is "the green shoots of recovery". Some people were tempted to suggest that a recovery was underway a few months ago as the UK showed some GDP growth, but then last quarter it dipped again, neatly dousing the fragile lift in economic mood. We a…read more

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Making your CV effective Published on 15 October, 2009 by Douglas Macdonald

As your CV is the primary source of information employers will have about you when they short-list candidates for interview, we thought we’d make CVs the subject of this blog.

Your CV is a sales document about you. Any sales document has to have certain key characteristics:

  • it must be relevant
  • it must be concise
  • it must be accurate
  • it must sell you, not just describe you

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Welcome Published on 09 October, 2009 by Douglas Macdonald

Welcome to Dekasu’s first blog post.

We have been busily researching and developing the site since January this year and are really proud of what we have achieved. We intend to make Dekasu the first port of call for anyone who wants to get ahead in their career.

Dekasu is a whole new way to manage your career. We have developed a job matching system, CV builder, mentoring processes, 360 Degree Feedback tools and are currently developing a whole host of new functionality.

We have re-engineered critical parts of the recruitment proc…read more