Night Of The Long Knives?

According to leaked reports in the newspapers at the weekend, Lloyds will announce that it’s ‘reviewing’ 2,500 middle management roles. The implication of such a ‘review’ is that Lloyds is going to want to change the focus of certain roles. Lloyds has been briefing...

Are The Bank’s Policies Leading To More Abusive Customers?

Recently the Co-op said that urgent action was required to stem a “crime epidemic”. It said that anti-social behaviour and violence in its stores had almost doubled to 300,000 incidents this year. Now, we are not saying that Lloyds and Halifax staff working in...

We Told You So!

Lloyds Banking Group issued a mass notification notice to all staff working in 125 London Wall at 6.41pm last night. It said: “LBG Group Alert – The landlord of 125 London Wall has completed a Fire Evacuation Test of the building today; as tenants we are...

The Changing Face of Representation

It’s stating the obvious to say that over the last 30 years the workplace has changed dramatically through a combination of technology and much different employer and employee attitudes. One of the areas affected most has been what used to be personnel, now human...

Muscle Memory & Sales

In a previous Newsletter we reported that the newly appointed Customer Channels, Managing Director, Mark Steel, was using old style sales language in his meetings with managers. On a call to branch managers he talked about “product sales”, “product holdings”, “product...

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