Creating Learning Culture in Your Company
Employee training plays a crucial role in retention today. That is why one cannot afford to omit it. First, on boarding a new employee is always more costly than converting and giving a new function to an existing worker who is already familiar with the corporate culture and generally knows the ropes. Moreover, the opportunity […]
A Guide To Making An International Hire
Never limit yourself when growing and diversifying your business. Opening your hiring process to international candidates can bring prosperity and growth to your company. Business today is a global landscape that you need to understand how to navigate. If you are considering hiring internationally, there are a few different things you need to know. Let’s […]
5 Things to Today to Become a Better Manager
As a manager, you wear many hats. In fact, you wear ten hats if you ask Henry Mintzberg. However, this blog post talks about you and your team in terms of how you manage them. It’s a humongous topic! So, I’ve tried my best to condense it down to just five tips that should help […]
Contribute to Your Employees Career Development
3 Ways To Contribute to Your Employees Career Development Employees are the main strength of any organization. An organization’s growth depends completely on its employees’ capability. Then it is a duty of the management to nurture the employees. There are many employees who can do better in their professional field, but due to some reason, […]
Leadership, my mother’s love and the ultimate sacrifice
As a leader you need to put the needs of your team ahead of your own. This is a lesson that Ben Morton learned during his time in the British Army. Here he tells his story… I was standing at the top of a mile long, tree-lined avenue staring down at the British Army’s sixth […]
On Learning Agility
I’m trying to read at least five l&d related articles a week and review my lessons from the article and today I read a really interesting one from CLO magazine titled, Learning agility and its role in leadership. You can read the full article here. Usually when I read an article like this, my first question […]
It’s official: business is no longer a competition
The industrial age created an economy based on competition, but in the digital age the business landscape is far more nuanced than that. When I first started working with leaders and their teams, they would tell me that their strategic goal was to be number one in their market. At first I found this charming. Then […]
How to Improve Wellbeing in the Workplace
While some stress is to be expected in the workplace, excessive stress can interfere with performance and productivity, and can have adverse effects on the emotional and physical health of your employees. Ensuring employees have a stress free, inspiring, engaging and nurturing environment is a sure-fire way of improving productivity and overall business results. Here […]
Six steps to ineffective leadership
Are your leadership skills too effective? Follow these simple steps and you will soon be joining the large group of bad leaders that are still out there… In our work as productivity and effectiveness consultants, we help leaders to lead more effectively, to be more efficient, and to realise the benefits of stress-free productivity. We […]
5 Benefits of Hiring an Agile Coach
Is your organization transitioning to agile software development? Whether you’re in the beginning, middle, or even the latent stages of this movement, it’s common to feel uncertain and frustrated by the process. With that said, a qualified agile coach can help your organization succeed within this uncharted territory. Let’s get into the advantages you should know. […]
How to Handle Vegan Employees in Your Workplace
If you want to be a great leader, you need to make sure that every member of your team feels safe, welcome, and included. While issues like religion and culture come to mind here, other strongly held beliefs, like veganism, are also important to consider. Without the right culture and leadership, vegan employees might suffer […]
How to Bring Mindfulness to the Workplace
Mindfulness is more than meditation. A common question we get asked is how mindfulness works or is it just a hype? This week is Mental Health Awareness week and with huge demands and pressure today in the workplace what better time to practice and learn about mindfulness. Mindfulness is the practice of deliberately bringing your […]
How your management style can affect business growth
Leona Barr-Jones looks at how a manager’s style can create a positive impact on performance, productivity and profits. Once your business starts to grow, you take the big step of taking on staff and putting processes and procedures in place in order to keep your business on track. It is at this point that strong management […]
How are training companies preparing for GDPR?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to training companies from May 25th, 2018. With less than a month to go, now is the perfect time to ensure that training organisations are ready for the deadline. We have recently held a webiner on how training companies can ensure that they are prepared. Watch now: https://www.accessplanit.com/gdpr-a-checklist-for-training-companies-webinar The webinar: Walks […]
How To Care About Your Employees
The success of a company can be measured through the satisfaction of their employees. Company needs to take care of their employees’ well being, finances and professional growth. That is the reason why so many organizations put so much emphasis on taking care of their employees. Even after the awareness about it there are so […]
Why accidental managers should be suitably trained
Like hairdressers, mechanics, doctors and just about every profession, some managers are better than others. The best managers encourage, support and advise their staff, whilst bad managers provide little such support. Accidental managers often fall into the latter category. The answer to overcoming the often less effective ways accidental managers run teams, is through training. […]
What can we learn from military leadership about motivating people?
Nicky Moffat CBE, former Director of Personnel & Brigadier at the British Army, offered a fascinating insight into military leadership at the CIPD Learning and Development Show on Wednesday 25 April in London. We civilians certainly have a lesson or two to learn from the military’s approach to leadership – that much was certainly made […]
Trump’s Feedback
In a week when I was launching a new training module on giving feedback, it was perhaps ironic that President Trump was in the news again for his unusual method of firing staff. This time it was Secretary of State Rex Tillerson who apparently discovered he’d lost his job when Mr Trump announced his replacement on Twitter. If […]
How to steer your business towards a learning culture
Looking to nurture a learning culture among your employees? Rajeeb Dey, CEO of Learnerbly, offers a few key strategies to steer your business in the right direction. This is not the first nor the last time you’ll hear me talking about continuous learning. We should all know by now that the key to preparing ourselves […]
Balancing Employee Development And Bottom Lines
Businesses rely on well-trained, competent, confident, empowered employees. Certainly part of this is investing time and resources into internally and externally developed training programs. There’s also the important process of assessing and evaluating skills and competencies. One of the challenges faced is that employee training and development can be costly. Yes, it is also an […]
