Vivien Martin

How to manage meetings: How much of your time do you spend in meetings, preparing for meetings and dealing with the outcomes? How much of your time do you waste because meetings have been badly planned and managed? Dr Vivien Martin of the Open University Business School looks at how to manage meetings more effectively.

Effective team leadership: People have struggled for centuries to understand what makes a good leader. Even if the qualities were easy to define, the type of leadership – whether or not it is dictated by personality or the requirements of the situation - remain debatable. In this article, Dr Vivien Martin of the Open University Business School explores the impact of an appropriate style of leadership on team effectiveness.

Service planning and governance

Managing an information flow: Dr Vivien Martin of the Open University Business School examines the management issues that arise from the way in which core tasks – those that must be done in order to deliver the service – fit together, and the structures that are required to co-ordinate them

Service planning and governance: Part Two: Managing accountability and risk

Leading in teams: part 1.

Managing an information flow Part 2

Developing as a manager Part 2: In this second half of her two-part series, Dr Vivien Martin of the Open University Business School continues looking at how you can take control of your own personal and career development.

Learning to lead (part 2)

Leading in teams: part 2: In the second and final part of this series, Vivien Martin, who has helped develop a new Leading in Teams course for The Open University, looks at how teams can be developed to improve performance and considers the challenge of working across traditional boundaries