“But it’s different here!”: Helping learners to embrace the new
I wish it wasn’t true, but I’ve heard it too many times to be able to ignore it… “Ah, but things are different here at XYZ ltd.” Or “That’s all very interesting, but it’s an idea from the private sector and we’re a charity.” Or “Here in the public sector, we have very specific ways […]
How to enhance training and development аt work
It is quite expensive to fund training and development programs for employees, and it can be frustrating when the desired results are not achieved. In many cases, the training and development programs do not promote the propagation of valuable information in the workplace. In many organizations, the managers discover that it is quite difficult to […]
In a leader’s world, let’s champion the manager
There’s a new and worrying trend in our industry – the denigration of “management” in favour of “leadership”. Comparisons of the two like to contrast – for simplicity – a controlling, top-down, authoritarian management style with a humble, authentic, self-aware leader who inspires others. But hold on, we need good managers. They’re the ones who […]
The Best Ways to Avoid Burnout At Work
Burnout: physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress. Today, burnout is one of those hot buzzwords floating around every trendy professional sphere. We’ve all heard about it, we’ve all talked about it, but most of us still don’t really know what to do about it. Burnout is a serious epidemic, one that continues […]
Ulrich Boser: The 10 commandments of ‘learning to learn’
TrainingZone reports on the key takeaways from bestselling author and educational journalist Ulrich Boser’s opening address on day two of Learning Technologies 2018, which took place in London in February 2018. In day two’s keynote, Ulrich Boser explored how people really learn, arguing that ‘a lot of the conventional wisdom on learning is wrong’. Both in […]
Pensions: Is your best and most costly employee benefit your least appreciated?
The government’s recent review of auto-enrolment found that 12 million workers are not placing enough importance on saving for their pensions. When it comes to engagement analysis, the government’s review was particularly enlightening, offering guidance covering ways in which employers can refocus pension engagement strategies to encourage a higher level of adoption and lower level of drop […]
How to include the whole team in your company blog
Is your company blog usually reserved for special announcements from the CEO? Or do you outsource blogging completely? While both of these approaches are common, learning to include the entire team in your company blog is an excellent way to improve your content and show staff that you value their opinions. Staff who feel valued […]
Why video is your saving grace in 2018
As early as 1982, Shepard and Cooper made the connection linking visual cues to the memory process and the recall of new knowledge. Later, in 2006, Allam observed that the use of moving images and sound made communicating a topic engaging and insightful. This was confirmed by the boom of video over the past decade. […]
Starting Every Session with Fresh Energy
It’s tough not to get burnt out when you’re teaching the same thing for the thousandth time. It’s even harder to bring fresh energy to a group when the last one’s negativity has dragged you down. Anyone that’s been doing this for long enough, sees the ebbs and flows of training. The good doesn’t stay […]
Survey: What’s stopping employee engagement?
We often hear about employee engagement statistics being stagnant – its not increasing despite all the effort companies are making with social and CSR events, development and internal communications etc. So, what is holding employee engagement back? Please take our short anonymous survey (approx 15 minutes) and let us know what you think. Let me […]
To lose one employee….
January 2018: Plans for the year are in place; you have devised a training scheme which will develop the skills needed to deliver the plan and everything is on track. Then the first resignation letter arrives, followed by another and another. All of a sudden your hopes for the year are thrown into disarray in […]
Three Keys For Network Marketing Success
It’s clear that we’re in changing times when it comes to how business is carried out. For example, the baby boomer generation, which consists of close to 80 million people, are on record saying that they’d be open to starting a business — according to studies. The day of the 9-to-5 being the end all […]
‘When do you get to be you?’
When do you get to be you? This might seem like a strange question – you get to be you every day, don’t you? Actually no. Not all of us do. A great many of us get to be a busy working parent who spends most of our time looking after someone else’s needs, and thinking […]
6 easy wins when training new hires
New starter training doesn’t have to be costly in terms of time and resources. Here are six low-cost, high-reward strategies for training new hires. 1. Replace ad hoc learning with training Having formal training is often a better alternative to leaving it up to new employees to ask questions, seek help, or teach themselves. Ad […]
8 ways to improve extrinsic training motivation
Imagine you have put a nice online training in place and you have thought of everything: the program meets your employees’ needs, it’s relevant to their work and it maps their growth. Everything seems to be in order and it kicks off! But then… After a few weeks, it appears that most employees haven’t even […]
Intrinsic Worth of Good Time Management
Reduced anxiety levels, zero friction & squandered time, grander achievements and amplified opportunities are a few out of many benefits that come with learning the art of time management.Procrastination is one of the biggest issues seen among the people today. How many times have you heard yourself saying “I will do it later”, only to […]
L&D could fix the UK’s graduate jobs market
With average debts of £50,800 and a declining number of graduate jobs on offer, students that graduated in 2017 don’t have much to look forward to. However, companies can employment a more attractive prospect by rethinking their approach to graduate hiring. Analysis from The Times found that two in five of the UK’s biggest companies are […]
Helping Your Employees Become Commercially Aware
Commercial awareness is the latest buzzword in business, which keeps cropping up in conversations about HR, recruitment, and indeed training. While the benefit of new hires with commercial awareness is obvious, should you also be looking to train existing members of staff with better business acumen? It clearly makes sense to re-skill your workforce for […]
Conducting job interviews – getting people to open up
No one attends a job interview for their health – it can be a nerve-racking experience. Some people clam up, some dry up, some go blank, and some chatter away. The aim of the interview is to get the right person for the job. The interviewer’s role is to enable the candidate to give the […]
Introducing workplace mediation at Sony
Becoming a workplace mediator was a life-changing experience for me, both on a professional and personal level. This wasn’t what I expected before I attended the accredited mediation course. Given my numerous years in HR, I assumed that I would simply be enhancing an existing skillset. Yet contrary to this, the skills that I learned […]
