Advance notice of Learning at Work Day
The Campaign for Learning has marked Thursday, May 25th as this year’s Learning at Work Day. As part of Adult Learners Week, the aim of the Day is to create thousands of learning opportunities, both formal and informal, in workplaces all over the country. This year senior staff are being asked to offer ‘shadowing’ opportunities […]
Advance notice of Learning at Work Day
The Campaign for Learning has marked Thursday, May 25th as this year’s Learning at Work Day. As part of Adult Learners Week, the aim of the Day is to create thousands of learning opportunities, both formal and informal, in workplaces all over the country. This year senior staff are being asked to offer ‘shadowing’ opportunities […]
Self-managed teams can create greater productivity
A feature article on the hrzone.com website focuses on some of the ways in which self-managed teams can be helped to work most effectively.Researchers have found that a manager’s attitude about teams is even more important to creating self-managing teams than the first line supervisor’s attitude and that problem solving teams thrive on adversity.The article […]
New Online Certificate in Management
The Learning Business, the flexible learning and development specialists have just launched a new on line Certificate in Management. Building on the experience of Learning Business staff in implementing global open learning programmes with blue chip clients such as British Airways, Castrol International and United Distillers, the programme has been designed to enable first line […]
NEBS Management launch new multi-media learning product
NEBS Management, in partnership with Scitech Educational, is initiating a multi-media learning resource, which is the first of its kind and which can enable people to study and gain information anywhere in the world. ‘The Universal Manager’ will have its first showing on Stand No. 1510, at the Human Resource Development 2000 Exhibition, held at […]
International Human Resource Information Management
IHRIM is a central network for its members to gain access and in-depth knowledge about HR information management and systems issues, trends, and technology. As an IHRIM member, your networking opportunities are global. The IHRIM Web site features bulletin boards, chat groups, Listservs, plus articles from the association’s publications. IHRIM is a central network for […]
Is the role of the manager about to be overtaken?
“When in the 21st century knowledge productivity becomes the driving force the knowledge workers will take charge. This may lead to the end of management as we understand it,” says Joseph Kessels of Twente and Leiden Universities speaking at the Institute of Personnel and Development’s HRD 2000 conference today.He argues that the traditional approaches to […]
Develop your networking skills
A manager’s success depends on their ability to understand different working relationships, and an ability to invest in these through networking – according to Dena Michelli and Alison Straw – who reveal the secrets of successful networking at a session at HRD 2000 today. “Networking isn’t something that everyone feels comfortable with, it fills some […]
NLP is ‘the management phenomenon of the decade’
“Neuro Linguistic Programming works on the principle that although you cannot change the world, you can change the way you represent the world in your thinking,” says Sue Knight, NLP expert who will approach the fascinating “management phenomenon of the decade” at HRD 2000 today. She adds, “It is our ‘thought life’ and not our […]
How safe are your staff?
Many employers do not take their responsibility to protect staff seriously enough, according to national personal safety campaigner Diana Lamplugh. Changing work patterns have meant that many more people – secretaries and administrators in particular – have to carry out tasks alone and away from the office. And a TUC survey last year recorded that […]
£10 million management buy out agreed for Cyborg Systems in the UK
US based Cyborg Systems Inc., a major international developer and supplier of human resource management systems, has agreed terms for the sale of its British business to the UK management team.The four executive directors of the UK business are David Stallion, Ann Fitzpatrick, Terry Forrester and Ed Ramshaw. Each will take a shareholding in the […]
Scitech launch new management and personal development concept
At HRD 2000, Olympia early next month, Scitech Educational will launch The Universal Manager – a major new management and personal development concept.Scitech Educational and NEBS Management are jointly launching the first of a suite of learning materials to support the Diploma in Management and S/NVQ Level 4/5 in Management. This is the first truly […]
Gower offer free sample activities on new ‘Page of the Month’
The increasingly interactive Gower Training website, from which you can browse and select from the range of Gower training publications, has now launched a new Page of the Month providing free samples from some of their latest publications.The focus throughout January and March has been on Teams and Leaders, with a free activity on ‘Front […]
Race and diversity in the workplace
The March issue of HR Magazine, from the Society for Human Resource Management, contains a series of lead articles on the issue of race and diversity within the workplace.Although inevitably written from a primarily American viewpoint, there are some interesting experiences and insights to be learned here. Robert Grossman asks whether diversity is actually working, […]
Project management tool for teams
Now here’s a useful site which has just come to our attention. We all know that Project Management can be something of a problem – communication breakdowns, people left out of the loop, data not distributed, – and all made a great deal more difficult when teams are physically distributed over distance so that normal […]
Fast Company – “A handbook for the business revolution”
A TrainingZone member brings the Fast Company website to our attention. Fast Company is excited by the way business is changing in a global revolution. Standardised ways of doing things are changing, and new ‘fast companies’ are changing the way things get done.The site aims to be a ‘Handbook for the Business Revolution’. If offers […]
Leaders are made, not born
An article on this week’s version of the LearningBuzz site is written by well-known leadership author, John Adair.John Adair’s Action-Centred Leadership model consists of three overlapping circles; the task, the team and the individual. He claims that anyone taking charge of a team can develop leadership skills and that they can be learnt (sometimes painfully) […]
’26 Flexible Training Activities for Developing Successful Leaders’ by Wynne and Hill
26 Flexible Training Activities for Developing Successful Leaders. By Bernard Wynne and Jenny Hill. Echelon, 2000. A4 ringbinder. ISBN 1 901600 11 4.Another well-produced activity resource for this very competitive market. The resource contains 26 activities that can be used in training programs for leadership training at all levels, whether leaders of work groups, projects […]
Zin Obelisk – team development activity
The Zin Obelisk is an intriguing, entertaining, sometimes frustration activity with wide use in team development and communications settings. I’ve used it myself frequently with group of up to eight people as it quickly and accurately reveals how people choose to contribute and participate within teams and small groups.Up to now I’ve always used the […]
‘Action Management – Marketing for Results’ CD-Rom
Action Management – Marketing for ResultsProduced by Milestones International, 23 School Road, St Andrews, Scotland,KY16 0BAe-mail: office@milestonesint.co.ukwebsite: http://www.milestonesint.comMethod: CD RomThe full package of “Marketing for Results” consists of a multi-media, interactive CD-ROM with supporting hard copy of workshop notes. It is aimed at small to medium businesses, academia and training companies.On this demo CD-ROM there […]