Skilled Managers

New @Acas survey finds that 44% of people experienced conflict in the last year - highest yet recorded - with significant negative impacts for individuals and organisations. Here's Richard Saundry and Peter Urwin from @UniWestminster digging into the findings 👇👇👇 Key message - if we're serious about improving productivity we need to build better employment relationships!

Re-thinking the art of disagreement with @acasorguk Hearing insights from our colleague Paul Latreille from @sheffielduni

Delighted to be presenting the findings of our ESRC- funded Skilled Managers research projects today with @acasorguk

Great to see the work done by our own Peter Urwin and Richard Saundry with @acasorguk on the cost of conflict cited in the govt's impact analysis of the #EmploymentRightsBill

Busy day of webinars with @acasorguk showcasing our Conflict Management Skills training package and the research that underpins it to over 1200 businesses 😅

It’s a biggie!

A pleasure to visit Congress House to share our research and thinking with trade unionists at today’s @acasorguk & @The_TUC conference. Giving managers skills, space and support is key to fairer and more productive work 😊😊

Our @acasorguk funded research looking at managerial capability in micro-business suggests that training can be particularly beneficial in SMEs - changing the conflict management style of all the managers in a small businesses can potentially transform the culture 👇👇

Managers in small firms often don't get the training they need. We designed the Skilled Managers intervention to minimise the burden on managers while maximising the impact on practice. Our @acasorguk report suggests that it worked...

We developed the Skilled Managers intervention as a research instrument but as the quotes (below) from our research report show, it struck a chord with so many managers that we've worked with @acasorguk to make it more widely available 👇👇👇westminster.ac.uk/business-a…