What is meta-awareness and how can it help with learner reflection?
Jackie Clifford explores the tools to help build self-awareness and deepen learner reflection.
Coaching for employee resilience and how L&D can help
Embedding a coaching culture that promotes resilience is something that will help employees navigate these uncertain times.
Enhancing leadership by promoting coping behaviour
The term might have a negative connotation but coping behaviour can enhance leaders’ problem-solving skills
Why forward-thinking leaders need to adopt different vantage points
Leaders need to start capitalising on the unique positions that they find themselves in.
Eight ways to strengthen your employees’ change muscles in the new era of work
How can L&D help employees exercise those cognitive muscles that will make agility and disruption easier?
Lessons from Boris Johnson’s reign: Why the world needs a new type of leader
Why leaders should ignore outdated ideas of what constitutes good leadership skills, and should instead adopt the more balanced, Yin-Yang approach.
What’s Wrong with Sympathy?
COVID; it finally got me. My symptoms were mostly those of a cold, but it was exhausting nonetheless, and I decided to do what I’d insisted other team members do in the same circumstances. I took time off to relax and fight it. But I really don’t want your sympathy, and I’ll explain why. I […]
Four ways to boost your virtual communication skills
Why face-to-face connection matters most in the age of remote working.
Extroverts don’t always make the most stable leaders
Extroverts tend to emerge as natural leaders in the workplace, however new research reveals they experience high turnover in their networks.
Personal development: Learn how to fail every day
The path to success is seldom smooth. The key to overcoming this is learning how to fail and get back up again.
Personal development: The art of talking to yourself more positively at work
How to turn internal mind-chatter into positive action at work.
How hybrid working has transformed our listening skills
Making changes to how we communicate is essential if we are to interact effectively in a hybrid workplace
Making meta skills training inclusive to all learners, not just leaders
Why do organisations still only offer people-facing skills training to their leaders?
Reassessing unconscious bias
No matter how much equality, inclusion, and unconscious bias training you run there is one area which may be letting you down. Almost invisible and taken for granted, your internal processes and computer algorithms may not be as even handed as you would like to think. Trusting that algorithms are unbiased is an easy assumption […]
How the RAF support a culture of collective leadership and dissent
How military principles help cultivate a culture of collective leadership.
Three reskilling essentials to support adaptability
Reskilling is not about quick wins. It’s an ongoing process that will support future success through sustained unpredictability.
Team coaching: How to optimise your teams for the new world of work
As businesses deal with ever more complexity and uncertainty, team literacy and effective collaboration will become essential to business success.
The Transformation Formula: Why knowledge is not enough
Veronica Safoa Owusu shares her journey to transformation and formula for building learning programmes that create real transformation.
The L&D performance imperative
Charles Jennings looks back at some of the lessons that learning professionals can use to improve L&D practises in the future.
Managing the ‘business growth versus leadership growth’ juggle
Now, more than ever, teams need to feel energised and inspired by their leaders.