LearningWire #207 - Find that course, trainer or coach, management development faces new challenges, get the lowdown on other me

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LearningWire #207 – Find that course, trainer or coach, management development faces new challenges, get the lowdown on other me

By TrainingZone

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TrainingZONE LearningWIRE - Issue 207
10 June 2002
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk
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REFERENCE: Find that course, trainer or coach now!
NEWS/FEATURES: Management development faces new challenges
COMMUNITY: Get the lowdown on other members
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Editor's note
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Have you ever felt that your HR or training department isn't
properly recognised for the work it does? Is there a perception
that it's 'just for paper pushers', or that the department just
exists to create annoying bureaucracy?

One of the key ways in which a training department can prove its
worth is to demonstrate how training carried out is benefiting
the business. But how do you come up with the evidence to
impress senior management and justify the size of the training
budget? If the training to be carried out is related to cultural
issues or personal development, how can you draw a parallel with
business objectives? And if business objectives are short term
and developing staff is a long term plan, how can you match them
up?

These are all issues up for discussion in this month's
EvaluationZone workshop, being held this Friday, 14 June at 13:00
BST. Bring your own issues to the discussion and get some
definitive answers now - and throughout the year as a subscriber.
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Stephanie Phillips
Editor, TrainingZONE
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REFERENCE
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Improving personal effectiveness
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If you're supporting the development of someone in your
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the knowledge and skills required to influence the outcomes of a
variety of business interactions with colleagues, line managers
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out more at
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/doc/2720

On learners and learning...
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If you're looking for reading matter on what it means to learn,
this collection of articles and practical exercises put together
by a number of TrainingZONE authors can help. For a full run-
down of the documents available, see
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/doc/1296

There's a whole range of materials for use in your training
programmes now at
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NEWS AND FEATURES
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TrainingZONE's news is created daily - get your regular updates
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Management development programmes face new challenges: IES
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Twenty definitions of, and seventy-five preconditions for,
successful negotiation
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Any Answers
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Add your expertise to the 1322 responses posted this year!
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/community/anyanswers/index.html

A selection from this week's questions:

- Where can I obtain a list of generic competencies for
professional trainers?, asks Sally Cousens
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/82770/728

- How can HR facilitate the creation exchange and management of
knowledge across the organisation?, asks Tashkah
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/82761/728

- I need to design an appraisal form for juniors at my
hairdressers, can you help?, asks Eva Rayfield
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/82693/728

Thanks to Garry Platt, Joanne Reeves-Hairs and Joy Wilson, who
were among those sharing the benefit of their expertise with
other members this week.

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