Social Media, Hate and Us
This isn’t the blog I intended to write this week, but on Friday we heard the terrible news of the terrorist attack on a mosque in New Zealand and, once more, the role of social media in our society was brought to the fore with the absolutely appalling news that the massacre was being live […]
How to future-proof L&D
You don’t need to be at the cutting edge of learning and development to keep pace with change. But staying up to date with the latest trends, experimenting with new tools and empowering others to do so will enable the function to turn the dial on learning effectiveness. There have been some interesting discussions in my professional social […]
How to tackle the skills gap: the importance of certification
Employers need to take control of the looming skills gap and ensure their employees are trained and fully certified using the latest agile techniques and digital tools. I’ve heard it said that “while knowledge is acquired in universities, when the young scientist comes to the labour market this knowledge proves to be incomplete.” Hands-on, practical skills and experience have always been valuable […]
Tuesday Insight: Remembering Anne Frank
Sunday was Holocaust Memorial Day, a day for everyone to remember the millions of people murdered by the Nazis, and in genocides since in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. Most of us have some awareness of the holocaust and/or other genocides and have heard the numbers involved. To take the most obvious example, during World […]
Why your creative employees are more likely to be risk-takers
According to the World Economic Forum: “Five years from now, over one-third of skills (35%) that are considered important in today’s workforce will have changed.” However, it also states that: “Creativity will become one of the top three skills workers will need.” In the most popular TED talk of all time, Sir Ken Robinson delivers a powerful […]
5 Ways To Supercharge Staff Training Presentations
The question of how to create a supremely engaging presentation when training staff is one that’s rumbled on for decades now. There’s plenty of rhetoric surrounding how long is the perfect duration of a training presentation, and how many slides to cram in before the audience begins to lose focus. When creating a presentation with […]
Top 7 Perfect Content Marketing Strategies in 2019
Content is fundamental to sustain in online space. Despite the huge growth in internet marketing, the onslaught of various brands, huge use of graphics, etc. content still rules the game. There is no alternative to sound content. But, despite the strength and pull of the content, a wrong marketing strategy can make the things fall […]
New year resolutions for L&D teams
In order to maintain a competitive edge in 2019 and beyond, companies need to invest in staff training to retain talent, but they also must prepare for the challenges of Industry 4.0. With a new year comes new challenges and opportunities. For corporate L&D teams, the year ahead is set to be both an exciting and challenging one […]
Development strategy: how to implement creative change
Why introducing new skills and behaviours to key individuals is the first step to creative cultural transformation. Making creative thinking commercial has long been a challenge for team management and wider training activities. The first step to overcome this challenge is focusing on cultural change. However, with an already difficult objective in place and teamed […]
How Studying IT will Boost Your Career Opportunity
Information Technology is one of the most important and fastest-growing industries in Australia. This constantly changing industry is very diverse, and almost anyone can get in on the action. IT is considered by some to be a niche industry reserved for computer geniuses and math whizzes. This couldn’t be any farther from the truth. In […]
Why Everyone Should Seek Out A Mentor At Work
Sadly, according to LinkedIn, there are not many people today using mentors to help improve their performance and knowledge at work. Yet, there is a grand tradition of the apprenticeship in one’s career path from Medieval times that maybe workers today need to learn from. Mentors Help Us Minimize the Beginner Phase in Our Careers […]
Top 10 Highest Paying Jobs in the IT Market
In 2018, there have been many job options for everyone and they are high paying as well. Presence of a variety of job opportunities sometimes makes it difficult to choose the one that is most lucrative and high-in-demand. So, if you are one of those who is looking for the best job that can give […]
Why you should invest in training – even if staff decide to leave
Justifying investment in training may seem difficult if staff leave to work for a competitor, so it’s important to understand why developing a talented workforce will ultimately benefit your industry. It’s a common business problem: how can companies encourage and provide professional development programmes without the risk of making their key staff more attractive to rivals? This is a particularly prominent issue in the […]
Three Topics to Boost Employee Digital Literacy
Modern businesses rely on technology in ways that would have been unthinkable only a few short years ago. If you think about it, it’s hard to come up with a single profession that has remained untouched by technological change. Even manual laborers are beginning to feel the effects of the encroachment of robotics and AI […]
Skills training: how to support and develop today’s graduates
As a new generation of graduates enters the workforce, training providers will need to adapt their methods according to the skills and preferences of these new young recruits and their employers. From healthcare and construction to sales and education, across the full spectrum of industries looking to hire graduates, there is a core set of […]
What do the changes to the Apprenticeship Levy really mean?
Recent changes to the Apprenticeship Levy signal a commitment from the Government to continue investing in on-the-job training, but what exactly has changed and how will it affect businesses? Learning while you are earning is a popular career path for many young people, and there are currently over 900,000 people on an apprenticeship in the […]
How to Be a Successful Coach or Trainer
If you want to discover how to become a life coach or trainer who succeeds – who actually makes it – you’re going to have to be willing to do things differently than most. Knowing how to be a trainer or coach who shines in a sea of dull, average professionals is the trick. Winners […]
Benefits of a Career in Language Teaching
Are you considering becoming a teacher? It’s one of the noblest callings, however, one of the most challenging, as well. A teacher is someone who affects children’s lives. Moreover, a teacher shapes the minds of many. There’s absolutely no question when it comes to searching for true meaning when being a teacher. You will be […]
Will T levels solve the UK skills gap?
T Levels are being positioned by the UK government as a vital educational overhaul that will better prepare young people for the fast-changing technology-driven world of tomorrow. But will these new technical qualifications be all they’re cracked up to be? From September 2020 the launch of T levels will give 16 year olds a new […]
Why We Need to Teach Students About Skilled Trades
When most well-intentioned parents and teachers talk about the future with adolescents, they discuss university majors, 4-year plans, and student loan debt. They teeter between the infamous STEM road and the notorious liberal arts path. Yes, for many students in modern America, it’s not a matter of if you attend college- it’s a matter of which one you attend. […]
