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Developing personal effectiveness skills enhances an individuals personal profile within an organisation. Developing skills to influence others, enhances careers, builds networks and enhances personal recognition and contribution.

Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes

1. Assess and identify personal effectiveness including strengths and weaknesses

2. Indentify and work with individuals to assist in developing personal skills, particularly addressing areas of weaknesses

3. Develop skills working effectively as part of a team, understand your role and responsibilities and how this relates to others

4. Set personal development targets, including addressing identified weaknesses, and develop approaches to enable these targets to be met

5. Assist others in developing their knowledge and skills

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People Power: The Original Research Tech

Webinar

Understanding social and business phenomena means humans understanding humans, both what’s expressed and what’s unspoken. In this sense, the human brain is the original research tech.

Apr
15
2026

Wednesday
14:00–15:00

The future of AI in research: Sustainability, cost, and responsible scale

Webinar

The future of AI in research is often portrayed as a race for larger models, more GPUs, and faster infrastructure. Success is commonly measured by computational scale. Yet this narrative overlooks a growing structural challenge: the financial, environmental, and operational costs of AI systems are rising faster than their practical returns.

Apr
16
2026

Thursday
11:00–12:00

The Alchemy of Insight: Technology, Hype, and the Search for Truth

London

The market research industry has spent 80 years rapidly reinventing itself, engaging in a form of modern alchemy, chasing the dream of turning messy human behaviour into clean, predictable data, hoping each new technology will be the magic solution.

Apr
20
2026

Monday
14:00–16:00

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