Nicky Spencer
Nicky Spencer is the managing consultant at Accomplice, www.accomplice.uk.com
CommentWe're feeling stretched, but we must not snap
One colleague escapes redundancy to find his role is to continue but across three newly merged directorates.
CommentMake the most of your transferable skills
You want to change career, secure a new role, position yourself for a job in a GP consortium or maybe move into a different sector. So you need to know how to identify, present and evidence your transferable skills.
CommentHow to leave your job
If you are due to leave your job, whether for a new role or retirement, voluntary or compulsory redundancy, it’s essential to deal well with the practical, professional and personal issues around your departure.
CommentNicky Spencer on making your career your business
Inspiration on steering your career through a recession is peculiarly sparse. But by applying the plethora of business advice to your career you can create some useful tips.
CommentNicky Spencer on reputation management
An executive hears reports of committee members’ behaviour, experience of an interview panel is relayed to a colleague, staff are overheard chatting about their team-mate - so it is that reputations are built.
CommentNicky Spencer on NHS innovation
If innovation was only about generating big ideas, then things would not be so challenging. But the real expertise comes in seeing our radical ideas successfully implemented and the benefits realised.
CommentNicky Spencer on facing NHS changes
Unprecedented levels of change and uncertainty are facing us all. Whatever the scale, political or economic, sector or service, organisational or personal, everyone is awaiting or experiencing unrest.
CommentNicky Spencer on building a high performing team
Attention on world class organisations, productive services and talent management, together with a natural inclination to safeguard our own roles and careers, could leave a crucial building block neglected: the team.
CommentHow to develop professional networks
Many who feel their career or performance is faltering are sometimes wary of networking. For the more introverted, networking is daunting. For others it conjures up images of currying favour along corridors of power for personal gain and so is unacceptable.
CommentNicky Spencer on the pitfalls of email
Every magnificent technological advance in communications presents us with a double edged sword. The battle for the effective use of email is just beginning.
CommentNicky Spencer on handling NHS complaints
It’s tempting to avoid complaints or that quiet aside that indicates dissatisfaction with our services. But it’s a false economy. Dealing well with complaints as early as you can saves time, resources and reputation, and improves quality.
CommentNicky Spencer on NHS workforce health and wellbeing
A while back, I was asked to deliver a day programme on health and wellbeing at work.
CommentNicky Spencer on aspiring to leadership
July brings us a further step forward in the delivery of Inspiring Leaders, the regional leadership plans.
CommentNicky Spencer on the three dimensions of workload management
Overwhelmed by your workload? Need to increase capacity at work, career potential, confidence?