Making a world of difference to performance
Our accuracy training takes us all over the world. Conscious of cultural diversity, we explore here how accuracy skills training is received by people around the globe.
And the Oscar for the most public cockup goes to...
‘Bungling’ PWC accountants at the Oscars hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons this week after making an ‘epic’ mistake, causing the Best Picture Oscar to be awarded to the wrong winner in front of a live TV audience of millions. If only they’d known about ‘Preventing Mistakes at Work’!
A misplaced decimal point can kill you!
Are errors keeping you awake at night? For a couple of sports science students at Northumbria University, a misplaced decimal point in a controlled experiment involving caffeine nearly ended in death, not just a sleepless night.
Resolving to reduce error in 2017
The Japanese have a saying: Even monkeys fall from trees.
All human beings make mistakes – even your very best people. But not all mistakes are the same. And there are ways to prevent mistakes from happening. You can’t eradicate mistakes but it’s certainly possible to measurably reduce them.
Accuracy: the core skill they don’t teach you at school
At school we learn to read, write and do arithmetic – amongst other things! But you never learn how to be accurate.
4 mistakes my solicitor made last week
Last week my firm of solicitors sent me their letter of engagement to confirm some work I had asked them to do. The documents arrived in a very smart folder, which boasted on its front cover ‘exceptional client service, every time’.
Learning from mistakes
Master Accuracy Trainer Hugh Murray talks to Cambridge 105fm about learning from mistakes.
Accuracy training pays off with groups achieving 99% accuracy!
Developing an Eye for Accuracy delegates score error rates of under 1%
Accuracy myth
"If you need me to be more accurate, I need more time"
Checking improved at Scottish Finance House
Improved data checks bring big boost to productivity
Accuracy Asides is the name of our accuracy blog
You get to hear about our latest accuracy course results, the real-life 'bloomers' which come to our attention and all the latest news and juicy gossip about errors! We share accuracy tips and advice too.