Learning culture
Workplace culture: train your staff to have a voice and reap cultural rewards
To truly make employees feel heard at work, organisations need to go beyond the comment box. Here’s how appointing and training staff representatives can transform your business. The last year, more than ever, has been dominated by questions and concerns around organisational culture for many of us HR, training and business leaders. From sexual misconduct […]
Mobile Learning Examples For Employee Engagement
In this article, I touch upon key facets of mobile learning and how can you use it to impact your employee engagement and performance. I also share 10 examples that showcase how you can achieve this mandate. How To Use Mobile Learning To Boost Employee Engagement And Performance Mobile learning is acknowledged as a key training […]
Video: great leaders guide rather than direct
What makes a great leader, asks John Wagner? He shares an example of a great boss who has shaped his leadership style. “Reflect back on the good bosses you’ve had and why they were good: why did you feel you really wanted to go to work and work harder and do the right job for […]
Nonsense Wakes Up the Brain Cells!
I don’t know if it’s a sign of impending middle age – I’m 52 so I’m probably nearly an adult now – but I’ve grown tired of the e-reader that I initially embraced with the same boyish fervour as every other new gadget. My love of paper books and real bookshops has been re-kindled (sorry […]
Data-driven L&D: how learning analytics can enhance the employee experience
Learning and development professionals have a lot to contribute when it comes to improving employee experience and, in particular, they are best placed to make use of all the data organisations have at their fingertips. One of the hallmarks of the digital transformation of modern business is the ability to deliver a rich, personalised user […]
Holistic learning: how to engage the body in learning
How to make learning a physical experience.
Lack of appreciation makes staff feel like leaving
Showing appreciation really is critical for the ongoing success of your teams. But often hard to properly quantify, a new study has started to put some numbers against the importance of recognising great work and giving thanks for efforts made. Published by Office Team, the report found that 66% of employees would leave their job […]
Mindfulness for trainers: one session ahead of the group
In part three of this content series on how to become a mindful trainer, Kay Buckby, Facilitator at The Mindful Trainer, discusses how trainers can be more responsive to their participants during training sessions. Years ago, when I started life as a customer care trainer, I had a one to one session with my mentor. […]
Adapting to the new reality: flexible training for flexible workers
Organisations will increasingly have to adapt training delivery to accommodate a flexible, often remote workforce – thankfully advances in technology are enabling change and data insight. From a niche idea to the mainstream, flexible working has become a key driver for workforce productivity and workplace happiness. With 89% of UK employees saying it is what they want, businesses are […]
Employee development technology: staying ahead in the digital age
Too many companies are merely paying lip service to employee development without properly investing. It’s time to truly invest or risk losing the best staff. More employees than ever value development opportunities as an intrinsic part of their job, yet three quarters of UK companies admit they don’t have a learning culture. We live in […]
Flexible Working – What’s in it for US?
A recent report from the CIPD suggest that a significant proportion of the UK workforce have no opportunity to work flexibly and suggests there’s an uneven distribution of flexible working across the economy. I think this means that many organisations might be missing out on an opportunity to capitalise on the talent they have, and […]
Six ways to maintain momentum after a skills development programme
It’s possible to harness the positive outcomes of a skills development programme, funnel that into everyday action and continue to implement change, but it does require collaboration. Training and continuing skills development are core elements of professional life in the 21st century for a good reason – in a fast-moving, continually changing, highly competitive business environment, you need to […]
How technology is transforming mentoring programmes
Mentoring schemes are increasingly being encouraged by companies, and the once manual selection process is being superseded by more accurate innovations in technology. Mentoring is widely recognised as highly beneficial to professionals in industries across the board. HR directors and L&D managers regularly turn to mentoring to improve employee engagement, learning and even employee retention. Mentoring is on the increase and […]
Mindfulness: inviting your learners to stop before they start
Distractions, distractions, distractions… this of how we live our working lives today. Packing too much in, a mobile with constant social media bombardment, open plan offices meaning all day distractions, emails constantly pinging and a ‘to do’ list that we never seem to get to the end of. Our learners have all this to contend with. Then, […]
Four ways to avoid disappointment in your digital learning programme
Robin is the Head of Learning Innovation for global sales, negotiations and communications training company, Huthwaite International. He has been involved in digital learning in some form or other for more than 30 years and continues to design award-winning learning experiences, using technology and digital learning where these tools add value. When I speak to […]
Managing & motivating multiple generations
The term ‘HR headache’ typically refers to a type of in-work behaviour that’s likely to result in someone from the HR team having a number of company compliance forms to fill out and difficult conversations to be had. But one thing that will be causing one of the bigger headaches for HR teams is the […]
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 […]
How Company Culture Impacts Employee Engagement
Pike Place Fish Market sits in downtown Seattle, Washington. Everyday, in the wee hours of the morning, the fresh fish arrives, and workers gut and clean, in preparation for the day’s sales. By the time customers arrive, these workers are all cleaned up and manning the sales counters. It’s a dirty job, and one would […]
Retention, INSPIRATION, Action
In my last blog, I explored Retention and the need, first and foremost for learners to remember the training you give them. This week, I want to explain the importance of Inspiration. We’ve probably all been on courses where the trainer, having perhaps noticed a few nodding heads in the graveyard session after lunch, has […]
