Hands-On Tactics to Improve The Physical Wellness
Both employers and employees understand the importance of physical wellness. It is only a physically active employee that can perform optimally – to the benefit of the employer – while enjoying several work-related benefits such as improved memory, mental stamina, concentration, and ability to learn faster. Even with its known benefits, encouraging employees to stay […]
How to create a powerful learning strategy
Are you feeling daunted by the prospect of having to write a strategy for 2019? Well, thanks to leading research into the future of learning there is plenty of fantastic data to support your work and hopefully inject a bit of inspiration. I love this time of year, and not just because of the festive season! […]
Enough online promotion of training?
Online, Print and Face-to-Face can all play a role but my perception is that training professionals and providers are less likely to exploit the online aspect of promotion than other industries. Are there any grounds to this perception? What is your experience? Are there any challenges/barriers that are preventing you from using online and how does this impact […]
Improving Culture? It Takes More Than A Pool Table
We’re currently going through an office redesign at MTD Training and during an initial meeting with one of the potential office designers they recommended: “In order to build a high performing culture you should look at putting in a pool table. According to the plans you’ll have room next to the digital learning team and […]
Four ways businesses can hardwire learning
Businesses often focus on engaging employees during training, but embedding learning should take centre stage. Find out how the L&D sector can help UK firms hardwire learning. Digital technology has helped revolutionise learning and development. Not only has it brought new delivery methods and ways of engaging staff, such as online video content, webinars and even […]
The fuel to ignite Company Growth
Business Success= Growth + Profit A straightforward equation by the looks of it, however in real terms not that easy to achieve, especially if one is chief, cook and bottlewasher tied up with operationally working in your business instead of strategically working on your business. For SME’s, growth aspirations are often surpassed by the continuous […]
What is the difference between a TMS and CRM?
As a training company, it can be difficult to identify exactly what it is that you need to manage your business. You need a solution to generate sales leads, book delegates on to training events and keep them updated with regular communications. The difficulty is that there are so many solutions being touted as the […]
4 Tips To Improve Employee Engagement
Every business manager should understand the importance of employee engagement. As Bamboo HR points out, high employee engagement can result in a multitude of benefits such as better employee retention, better employee brand and thus strong marketing, and a more productive and financially successful workplace. Workshops and consultants all have their grand ideas for how […]
Can Corporate E-Learning be Engaging?
There is no question that British companies are currently at the crossroads of uncertainty. On one hand, the United Kingdom still has not determined what will happen once Brexit moves from the negotiation phase to a transition stage; on the other hand, reports from the London School of Economics predict that the ongoing skills gap […]
How to get your employees to be their own performance coach
With an ever-widening skills gap on the horizon, it’s imperative for businesses today to nurture a culture in which employees are motivated and committed to learning. Here are three steps to help you help your people be self-directed learners. Each and every one of us owns our own performance through the conscious choices we make […]
Four ways philanthropy helps develop great teams
Businesses today understand the value of corporate philanthropy. They know that if implemented effectively, social responsibility programmes play a vital role in building a positive reputation, increasing awareness, and improving sales. That means companies across the world are becoming more involved in philanthropy, sometimes to plug gaps in government resourcing and to support community groups […]
Workplace happiness in seven steps
Keeping your employees happy requires you to consider (and perhaps rethink) the way your business treats, manages and nurtures its people. Here are seven things you can do to put smiles on faces. When we think of happiness, joy and laughter the workplace does not perhaps spring easily to mind. Yet workplace happiness is high on […]
Learning technology: why aren’t young workers engaged by online learning?
Employers assumed that millennials would be the first to embrace online learning, but this isn’t always the case. Here’s why they’re getting it wrong… It’s often assumed that young people will gravitate towards online learning. However, a study from the CIPD, which examines the challenges of developing 16-24-year-olds in the workplace, reveals that online training […]
4 Keys to a Trained and Productive Workplace
When you’re interested in getting all that you need out of your company, you need to make training a fundamental and ongoing part of the process. Too many companies simply set it and forget it with training, treating it like a formality and failing to continuously give employees the information that they need to grow […]
Free training: why time, not money is the currency training providers should trade in
Challenging market conditions for training providers have prompted many to consider offering free places on courses or discounts as an incentive, but this is usually a big mistake. Here’s why… Training providers are having a tough time in today’s unpredictable economic climate. Corporations cut training the moment the downturn began in 2008, and the market is […]
Training Employees for Involving and Retention
With globalization, organizations around the world have changed the way they interact and do business on a global scale. Globalisation has indeed made the world a better place, bringing people together to share technology for mutual benefits. As such, employee training in this respect is something very crucial but is often overlooked by the corporate […]
The creative approach to the labour crunch
Today’s business leaders are faced with a landscape that’s unlike any they’ve likely encountered in their lifetimes. No matter where you look, labour markets are tighter than they’ve ever been, driving a fierce competition for skilled job candidates in almost every industry. At the same time, the pace of technological change and rapidly aging populations […]
Making classroom training fun
I need some advice please! I need a few new ideas to make classroom (IT) teaching a bit more fun. I teach 17 + 18 year olds and want them to be a bit more interested in the topics. Any ideas? Thanks I need some advice please! I need a few new ideas to make […]
5 Tips For Training Your Creative Team
In any sort of environment, the creative center are the ones that have to be at the cutting edge of their field of work. Things change so rapidly in creative fields that what applied to a particular sector today will be old new by the time tomorrow rolls around. Shift notes that as many as […]
Employee engagement: ‘motivation’ is dead, it’s time to find new ways to empower your team
‘Motivation’ used to be all the rage when it came to employee engagement, but today’s workforce needs a more subtle approach that takes their own needs and priorities into account. Remember when motivation was all the rage? We had the motivational posters and the motivational speakers and the motivation theories differentiating between intrinsic and extrinsic […]
