The benefits of outsourced training
Tony Willson outlines the many benefits that can be gained through outsourcing your training and offers his advice on how to get the most out of the process. During the recession businesses had no choice but to cut back on resources and one area that is often among the first of the casualties is training. […]
How to provide feedback that will develop your employees
Feedback doesn't have to be just a box-ticking exercise. Monique Rivers tells us how to turn it into a constructive experience. Let's make one thing clear – there's no improvement without feedback. If you spot an employee going about their work in a wrong way or making the same mistakes over and over again, it's […]
Harnessing the power of positive change
No-one likes change do they? Well – some people do. Gary Wyles is one of them. Change is often viewed as a negative and there are lots of statistics and market reports to back this up. There’s the oft-quoted figure that 75% of change projects fail. So it’s no wonder that business leaders, managers and […]
IDEAS PLEASE – Team event focussing on employee wellbeing, value of happiness, positive relationships and resilience
Hi there I've been asked to deliver an event for 40 people to help enourage engagement and productivity. The areas I'd like to focus on are: – employee well being – value of happiness – positive relationships (both within and outwith the workplace) – resilience These aren't areas I've focussed on before TBH and I'm […]
How Do You Get People More Involved in Learning & Development? Nudge Them!
We’re hearing a lot about Nudge at the moment. Put simply, Nudge is a book by Thaler & Sunstein on the science of how people use mental shortcuts to make decisions. The key message of the book (and the research it’s based on) is that, by following some simple design and communications techniques, we can […]
Make your course one to remember
Writer and trainer Georgina Bromwich has a few tips to make your course content stick. Think about the last course you went on, or the last presentation you watched. What do you remember about it? A couple of things, if you include the chocolate hobnobs they had at the break – or not even that? Now […]
GivebackUK: Increasing learner engagement with new technologies
GivebackUK is a new branch of the Charity Learning Consortium, centred around a programme called Clear Lessons: inspirational videos for the third sector from the best in L&D. First up, it’s Towards Maturity’s Laura Overton. Go to the GivebackUK homepage for more info GivebackUK is a new branch of the Charity Learning Consortium, centred around a […]
The rise of elearning is set to continue in 2015
Tony Willson outlines what he believes will be the key trends for the coming year in elearning. After many years in a recession, the UK is slowly starting to recover but that doesn’t mean that businesses can rest on their laurels. The majority of organisations have a lot of ground to make up in a […]
Free exercise: Why do people stay?
Susie Finch from the Charity Learning Consortium has given us a great employee retention tool from their Toolkit for Managers Visit the site for more information about the Toolkit for Managers. Susie Finch from the Charity Learning Consortium has given us a great employee retention tool from their Toolkit for Managers Visit the site […]
Triggering behavioural change with bite-size video
Bite-sized videos offer a new way to inspire people to change their behaviour, says Martin Addison. Just because you understand how you’re supposed to react in a certain situation, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll behave that way when the situation arises. This is a crucial distinction because it means that the goal of management, leadership […]
The real reason that your staff are leaving
Gemma Harding delivers some home truths for the community. No one is ever truly honest with their employer when they hand their notice in, for fear of never seeing a reference from them again, but there are often plenty of reasons why people look for greener pastures that would be valuable for managers to understand. […]
Does team building hold the key to success?
Within any organisation, the secret to improving performance and efficiency is teamwork. Nathan Angus explains how team building can be used to create stronger, more effective teams that improve the productivity of an organisation. Team building is an essential part of any organisational development strategy; an ongoing process that requires continued evolution in order to […]
How elearning helps training companies manage delivery
Elearning provides the ideal solution to the thorny issue of late registrations in the world of business training today, says Andre Philpot. Late registrations are a fact of life in the world of training today. Gone are the days when course providers could refuse anyone who applied less than a week before the start date. […]
Why team building is important to your business strategy
John McCarthy gives us some team-building tips. Throughout life, we all like to be made to feel worthy and appreciated, knowing that our presence is part of an essential drive towards a positive outcome. Within the workplace, job satisfaction is a vital element in ensuring the successful running of a business. In achieving this, it […]
Help employees focus on their development
Here’s a great video from Spidergap’s Alexis Kingsbury about 360 and CPD. For more info on Spidergap’s 360 Academy visit the website here Here’s a great video from Spidergap’s Alexis Kingsbury about 360 and CPD.For more info on Spidergap’s 360 Academy visit the website here
Rethinking training
As part of strategy month, Marcela Pineros looks at how we can improve our training methods. “We need to look at our training through the eyes of a shifting market and evolve the parts that make the most business sense.” This was the takeaway message I provided a client in a recent professional services engagement. […]
Do your staff hate their office?
Gemma Harding gives us a few tips to up the office productivity levels. The Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, with its primary coloured beanbags and well-stocked fridges, has become the stuff of legend. Notorious for their unorthodox and relaxed attitude to work spaces, with ‘fireside’ meeting pods and sofas that you can call your […]
360 Feedback v Positive Psychology: Are they compatible?
A couple of weeks ago I was taken by surprise by a comment from an associate; we met for coffee and were chatting through what is current for each of us at the moment. My colleague is a coach and talent consultant, and works with many leading companies, as I do. He told me that […]
How to get your coaching culture correct
Organisations that build a successful coaching culture will help drive high performance throughout the business, says Graham Scrivener It may not come as too much of a surprise to know that in a recent global survey, conducted by Forum EMEA in association with The Sales Management Association, coaching was rated as having the greatest impact […]
How to use profiling tools successfully
Profiling tools are rightly viewed with scepticism in some quarters, but Mike Cooney tells us how to use them effectively in conjunction with other methods. There are few activities in the learning and development world that have a more consistent and broad appeal than personality profiling questionnaires or psychometric tools. The profiles of which reveal […]
