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TrainingZONE author Bryan Edwards has put together a fully designed one day course for a trainer or line manager to pick up and deliver to develop team working skills. The Team Leadership Skills course contains tutor course notes, full colour overheads / Powerpoint slides, a delegate manual, exercises and role plays – everything you need, […]
Leadership the Sven-Goran Eriksson way – review
Title: Leadership the Sven-Goran Eriksson WayAuthors: Julian Birkinshaw and Stuart Crainer, 2002Publisher: Capstone Publishing Ltd (a Wiley company)ISBN: 1-84112-419-2Price: £12.99Buy this book from the TrainingZONE – Blackwells bookshop.The book is written on one main premise: the Scandinavian, and Swedish in particular, style of leadership, in this day and age, is superior to that other nations […]
Management stripped bare – review
Title: Management stripped bareAuthor: Jo OwenPublisher: Kogan Page Limited 2002 ISBN 0 7494 3697 2Price: £14.99Buy this book from the TrainingZONE – Blackwells bookshop.Jo Owen starts out by proposing to not offer the reader a grand theory of management. In doing so he takes the reader through the very material that they not only don’t […]
Management development programmes face new challenges: IES
Making management development programmes ‘stretching and stimulating’ to all types of managers and finding more practical approaches to evaluating such programmes are the key priorities for those involved in delivering and organising such programmes, according to a new report.The study, published by the Institute for Employment Studies, drew its findings from existing research and discussions […]
The Motivation Handbook – review
Title: The Motivation HandbookAuthor: Sarah Hollyforde and Steve WhiddettPublisher: CIPD ISBN: 0852929250Buy this book from the TrainingZONE – Blackwells bookshop.Ever wondered why people behave in a ‘certain way’? What motivates them? How do you get Kevin-in-accounts to perform better? Give him a swift kick in the pants – or a cup of coffee? Why is […]
Poor quality of management and leadership holding back UK productivity
An extensive study of the demand for and supply of managers and leaders in the UK, identifies management and leadership as a key factor holding back the performance of UK plc, and offers an action plan to create a world-class management culture.The report, ‘Managers and leaders: raising the game’, is the culmination of two years […]
Graduates lack skills for work
Following on similar research in September 2000, the Chartered Management Institute, supported by the London College of Printing and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, has undertaken new research into graduate key skills and employability.Results– 75 per cent of managers questioned think that the IT skills of graduate recruits are good in this year’s survey. […]
Management development monthly feature: Teamwork technology for results
Leading teamwork and management expert and co-founder of the CPD Business School Charles Margerison looks at the uses of technology products in teams. Team CommsWe increasingly take it for granted that any important information will be held on a computer server. If we go to an airport, our travel details will be on the computer […]
Human contact and performance management in remote working – feature
This feature article was provided by Rachel Ayerst, senior consultant at Chameleon Training. How can you build in human contact as well as performance management into remote working? Remote controlIs remote working the biggest change in working life since the industrial revolution? Many believe so. A Datamonitor report has found that one in four people […]
Work-life balance depends on support for managers
New research from Roffey Park finds that regardless of whether formal policies are in place, it is the attitudes, skills and behaviours of line managers which ultimately determine the success of flexible working arrangements. However, the report also finds that managers themselves are having to work under pressure, frequently trying to meet tighter deadlines with […]
Management development feature: What about team competencies and learning?
This month sees the second in our monthly series of features on the subject of Management Development. Leading teamwork and management expert and co-founder of the CPD Business School Charles Margerison will be producing a series of these features over the coming months. Do we pay too much attention to academics instead of practitioners when […]
Team Development Programme: a training manual – Review
Author: Joan WaltonPublisher Russell House PublishingPublished: February 2002Price: £29.95Buy this bookWhilst team development has been an issue ever since people started to organise their work within collaborative groups, the first seminal book on the subject for me was the classic ‘Team Development Manual’ by Mike Woodcock and Dave Francis (versions of which are still available). […]
Management development feature: training and performance
This month sees the first in our monthly series of features on the subject of Management Development. Leading teamwork and management expert and co-founder of the CPD Business School Charles Margerison will be producing a series of these features over the coming months. Training and PerformanceEach week I get more and more leaflets through my […]
Developing management capability, part 2
This second in a series of articles from Simon Court of Value Partnership explores why management is a key value driver. Ask a venture capitalist about the deals that went wrong and they will tell you about management failure. Talk to an outstanding CEO like Jack Welch or John Browne and listen to the emphasis […]
Developing management capability, introduction
This article by Simon Court of Value Partnership introduces a series which will examine developing management capability for sustained business performance. When it comes to valuing a firm, the financial markets explicitly include an ‘X’ factor to take account of their views of the quality of management in general, and top management in particular. Unfortunately, […]
Do you have a people problem?
This article was provided for TrainingZone by John Seddon of Vanguard Education. In my experience, managers probably exhibit more dysfunctional behaviour in their attempts to manage people than in any other activity. Today the model of the sports coach is so prevalent in the mythology of management and motivation. Achieving extraordinary success in sport, sometimes […]
Organisational change for the professions: a planned approach – part 1
This feature article written by Malcolm Finney of Management Dynamics looks at the difficulties of implementing change in professional organisations. The market place, whether of accountancy, law, architect or other professions, or indeed any other profit-making organisation, is in a continual state of change. This means that firms/organisations in that market place must also change […]
Money spent on leadership and management training is wasted, says Gallup
“If most organisations cut their leadership and management training budget, they would never know the difference.”That’s the controversial view of Marcus Buckingham, Global Practice Leader, Gallup Organisation, who says that leadership and management training isn’t delivering what it is designed to do. He bases his argument on recent Gallup research being cited by the Chartered […]
Case study: Developing retail managers across islands
Kevin Ryan, Group Training & Development Manager for Le Riche’s Stores, explains how retail management development has been successfully implemented in the Channel Islands, with the help of some novel training locations!Company ProfileLe Riche’s Stores is the largest division of the Le Riche Group, a Food Retailer operating in the Channel Islands of Guernsey, Jersey […]
Measurement and management
John Seddon of Vanguard Education examines why using financial measures to assess performance can be a big mistake. How many people have said: “Our organisations are being run by accountants”? Don’t get me wrong, as an owner of a small business I care about cash flow, margins and sustainability. But financial measures are no more […]