Can soft skills be taught through elearning? pt3
Elearning is a method not often applied to soft skills training; Ian Luxford concludes his contentious feature. The improvements in assistive technologies can also make it easier for people with certain disabilities to participate in this type of training than previously – my view is that we have more work to do here, but there […]
People management and soft skills: The missing link
Stephen Walker looks at the differences between traditional command and control style and people centred management. Let me be bold. Management is the management of people. The management of objects is administration. Planning the functions and throughput of a machine is simple. The set-up time, the run time to process each item and the downtime […]
Can soft skills be taught through elearning? pt2
Elearning is a method not often applied to soft skills training; Ian Luxford continues his contentious feature. Another challenge is about the kind of activities which are used to teach these types of skills. To develop the skills to interact productively with other people, it seems reasonable to assume that the learner will need to interact. With […]
Can soft skills be taught through elearning?
Elearning is a method not often applied to soft skills training, but Ian Luxford thinks that with a bit of planning and analysis, it might be possible. For many professionals in the field of training and development, the first ten years of the 21st Century will be seen, for some time into the future, […]
Why are soft skills important?
How are you feeling today? Paul Matthews explores the link between emotion and soft skills. We start learning soft skills from almost the day we are born. Within a short while, we are successfully managing our parents. Some would even say manipulating them with tantrums and smiles, and crying and giggles to get them to […]
Soft skills and engineers: Google’s Project Oxygen pt2
John Sadowsky concludes his feature about a recent project at Google that highlights how soft skills can influence managerial style across an organisation. In their bosses, do engineers value soft skills more than hard technical knowledge? It was in a second phase, when the Project Oxygen team began ranking the eight elements by level of […]
Soft skills and engineers: Google’s Project Oxygen pt1
John Sadowsky turns to a recent project at Google to highlight how soft skills can influence managerial style across an organisation. As someone who has consulted for numerous high-tech companies and who has taught business students and engineers the past two decades, I read with considerable interest an article in the New York Times in […]
Transactional Analysis (TA) Training – video clips
I’ve been asked to add into a Transactional Analysis training course for Managers some video clips to help them spot Parent, Adult, Child behaviour and communication in action. My problem is the first session is Wednesday next week and I haven’t the time to study lots of films to find good examples – anyone know […]
Liggy Webb: “Our coping mechanisms are being challenged”
At a recent event we caught up with workplace wellness expert Liggy Webb to talk about modern life skills. For more information on Liggy and her new book, click here At a recent event we caught up with workplace wellness expert Liggy Webb to talk about modern life skills.For more information on Liggy and her […]
How to use elearning effectively for soft skills development and CPD
Francis Marshall looks at e-learning’s role in developing soft skills and for continuing professional development. E-learning has come a long way in the past decade. While it may not have lived up to its initial hype, creating somewhat of a Marmite effect with users either loving or hating it, it is now one of the […]
How to work with mixed ability groups
Alan Matthews provides the community with some great pointers on how to get the most out of a group of mixed ability. Many years ago, when I was a primary school teacher, it was normal to work with classes or groups of mixed abilities. This presented a challenge to the teacher, how to pitch the […]
Do toys and smelly pens really make a difference?
Alan Matthews makes the case, not just for training accessories, but the training that follows them. Have you been on a training course recently (or run one yourself) where there have been some little toys on the table – springs or bendy men? Or sweets? Or music playing when you went in? Or those smelly […]
The Difference between Training and Comms
I’ve recently taken over a Training Team and found that slot of what they do I would class as Comms rather than Training. By this I mean that they are doing things that only require awareness and don’t require any change in action or behaviour. Does anyone have any credible definitions I could use to […]
PAVA: The four ways to approach diversity training
The right kind of equality and diversity training can reap dividends for your organisation. Snéha Khilay, offers some key top tips on how to approach and manage this effectively. As a practicing trainer, I am constantly challenged to find ways of dealing with scenarios involving cultural diversity in the workplace. I often have to deal […]
Cardboard cop-out
Another great episode last night – and finally we got to see a bit more of the other candidates. What’s more, it was one of my favourite design tasks (remember the bum exerciser and the doomed ‘gym in a box’?) This week the youngsters are confronted by several pairs of wellies in the hallway before […]
Body language demystified: Profiling your delegates
This month our body language expert, Peter Clayton looks at the complex subject of profiling and how it can help you better understand your delegates. Following my last article, Dr. Suzanne Hard commented that some of the scientists that she works with have trouble with understanding why they should smile and make eye contact when […]
20 reasons to invest in sales training
Often we as sales trainers are asked to justify why a business should pay for our services. In this article I will provide 20 compelling reasons why sales training is not simply a cost that your company should carry but rather an investment that all ambitious companies and organisations should seriously consider to help them […]
Soft Skills: Hard results
‘Transferring development into action doesn’t have to be a challenge,’ says Garry Platt. Any soft skills development programme must result in workplace changes which contribute to the business. Often because of the nature of these types of events the content and the material used might be engaging and interesting but does not necessarily impact on […]
Teambuilding: Should you use internal faciliators?
With companies training budgets being squeezed, should the top team use internal facilitators to run their teambuilding events and key meetings? Heather Townsend advises. Most companies when team building with the top team, automatically pay out for an external facilitator. If many highly respected learning and development consultancies are to be believed teambuilding with the […]
Coaching Conundrums: What to do with a moaning client
This month’s coaching conundrum is about how to deal with a client who likes to spend their entire session moaning. Paul Z Jackson and Janine Waldman advise. Clients often arrive for coaching aware that it’s an opportunity for them to share their issues. Some clients take this as an invitation to complain bitterly and at […]
