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Profile of Dr Meredith Belbin: The father of team roles

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News round-up

Creativity & innovation at heart of Google success

Hire employees for talent, not tokenism, says CBI

Skills scheme shortfalls highlighted

Mobile working causes RSI cases to soar

CV fraud? You’re fired!

Lack of work-readiness prompts project to establish best practice

Training course is ‘shear’ delight

Civil Service aims to become ‘beacon of best practice’ in volunteer work

‘Dragon’ Peter Jones turns charitable

Web 2.0 workplace ban could cause youngsters to resign

Denham says act now to plug skills gap

Skills investment will offer retail boost

Ruth Spellman puts skills push top of her list of priorities

Staff retention boosted to 92% with training & development

70% of women feel discriminated against at work