Graduate Management Development Programmes: You’ve Recruited Them – Now What?
Recruiting graduates can prove expensive, especially if you don’t work hard to keep them. In the second of a three part series on graduate development, consultant Mike Morrison explains how a management development programme can produce real business benefits. Recruiting graduates can be an expensive process. This cost is doubled if you have the wrong […]
Briefing: Improving Training Sessions and Presentations With Technology
Training departments and professionals are constantly under pressure to deliver engaging, relevant and inspirational programmes in order to maximise knowledge transfer and retention of information; Steve Dracup, Managing Director of Promethean (AV Distribution) reports. To be effective, presentations must retain audience attention, which means the content must be motivating and powerful. Often working to strict […]
The Way I See It … Crafting the Perfect Induction
This week Brightwave’s James Cory-Wright, Head of Learning Design shares his ideas on how to get off to the right start with a new employee. A successful employee-employer relationship often depends upon how a new employee settles into their job to start with. “Most labour turnover is among new employees, and work efficiency is reached […]
New Skills and Employment Board for London
London mayor Ken Livingstone is to head a new skills and employment board for the capital, the Department for Education and Skills has announced.The move is part of a wide ranging overhaul of the mayor’s powers and gives him a statutory duty to promote adult skills in London.The new board, including top London business leaders […]
What Happened Next? The Training Mutiny. By Sarah Fletcher
How do you manage new employees who criticise your training methods, complain to senior staff and take the induction into their own hands? What training strategies will win back control and keep it? By Sarah Fletcher. How do you train after the staff have criticised your methods? We are a manufacturing and distribution company with […]
Skills Shortages are Biggest Barrier to Business in Capital
A shortage of skilled staff has overtaken transport issues as the biggest barrier to business in London, new research shows.Sixty-one per cent of employers are suffering from a lack of key skills, an increase of 11% since 2005. Companies in the property, professional services and transport sectors are worst affected, the report from CBI and […]
Time Management: For Trainers
Training consultant Rich Lucas outlines four ways to effectively organise your tasks to produce efficient, effective results. Time management is a funny thing – its basis in “to do” lists and the worldand its friend claiming to have the greatest time management tool availableand claim to make you work smarter, not harder.The only problem is […]
‘Returners’ Will Ease Skills Crisis
Mothers, carers and retired people should be encouraged back into work to ease the UK’s skills crisis, a new report states.Britain will need 2.1 million new entrants to its workforce between 2010 and 2020. The research from City and Guilds claims that training is essential to increase the quantity of people returning to employment to […]
Samaritans Launch Training Scheme to Cut Workplace Stress
The Samaritans have launched a training programme to tackle workplace stress.WorkLife will add to the existing communications skills courses offered by the Samaritans, providing “active listening skills” for managers and teams.The programme explores challenging work situations anonymously through a series of fictional characters.The charity this week launched a series of road shows in Edinburgh to […]
TUC Works With DfES To Boost Workplace Learning
A workplace learning programme which should help 250,000 employees per year has been launched.Unionlearn aims to boost workforce skills across England and will focus on literacy and numeracy training.The project is a partnership between the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). It will aim to improve employer support for […]
What Happened Next? Conflict Management. By Sarah Fletcher
With great power comes great responsibility (apparently), so what happens when your promotion causes a communication breakdown with your co-workers? Can you train staff to respect your new position, or is peacekeeping a priority? Find out What Happened Next when a TrainingZONE member sought tips from the Any Answers forum. By Sarah Fletcher Promotion provokes […]
US Surges Ahead of Europe on Training Spending
Training levels in Europe are falling as the US continues to surge ahead on skills investment, the world’s largest human capital report reveals.The study of over 15,000 US and European organisations found that relative levels of spending on training are higher in the United States, as European expenditure has fallen year by year.In Europe, the […]
What happened next? Dealing with Drugs. By Sarah Fletcher
How do you handle an employee whose drug-fuelled weekends are spilling over into working hours? Find out What Happened Next when member Claire Fitzgerald asked Any Answers how to make her workplace a pill free zone. By Sarah Fletcher How do we stop the downward spiral? “A valued member of our team has a really […]
Linking Training to Business Needs: The Secrets of HMRC Revealed. By Sarah Fletcher
Linda Martin, Head of Learning at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) spoke to Sarah Fletcher about HMRC’s learning and development challenges, how they measure the success of their training investment and crucially just how they tie in their training to business needs. HR Zone Q1: How has the learning and development (L&D) strategy at HM […]
Businesses Demand Skills and Education Overhaul
Businesses are calling for a major overhaul of how workforce development is funded in order to create more skilled staff.The report from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) shows that UK firms are dissatisfied with the way government subsidies are allocated. The study recommends that training providers other than colleges are included in the funding […]
Inductions That Work – Slashing Staff Turnover By 90%
Running Inductions that WorkInduction programmes are regularly highlighted as crucial for employee retention and a skilled workforce, but all too often they can be, as TrainingZONE member Nik Kellingley puts it, “poorly thought out, poorly implemented, cut short due to “business demand” – and these courses may actually reduce performance, value and morale.”We asked Kellingley, […]
Online Support Boosts Teaching Skills
Twice as many teachers and lecturers are being given access to information and advice that should boost the skills of UK education.The Teacher Support Network has launched an online programme offering confidential email coaching for its 17,000 users.Chief Executive of the organisation, Patrick Nash emphasised the value of such efficient support for education.“Teacher Support Online […]
Lack of Financial Training is Business Time Bomb
The majority of UK business managers have not received any formal, financial training, new research reveals.Sixty-eight per cent of the 650 managers quizzed said they have never had any formal training, according to e-learning solutions provider Intellexis.More than three quarters (76%) of organisations in the Midlands and Wales fail to provide training for their managers, […]
Inadequate Training Hampers Change Efforts
Poor training and development programmes are affecting the success of organisational change initiatives, new research warns.According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), organisations experience major restructuring every three years, yet their training processes are not sufficient to cope.This is reflected in market feeling, as employers are showing little confidence in the competency […]
Training Contract Wins: January to March 2006
Who are the major players of the training world? Read on to find out who is scooping the major training contracts this year. Ellion Technology wins online contractGlobal human resource development firm Rhema Group has hired Ellion technology solutions to create an online programme of learning resources. Due for launch in June 2006, it will […]
