Most-read TrainingZone articles of 2018
Discover TrainingZone’s most-read articles of 2018, featuring expert insights on leadership styles, behavior change, emotional intelligence, and digital learning transformation. Explore the top 10 pieces that captured L&D professionals’ attention throughout the year.
5 Secrets to Become a Successful Entrepreneur
Successful entrepreneurship requires more than studying others’ achievements. Key practices include active listening, self-care balance, community involvement, strong work ethic, and strategic networking to build lasting business success.
Six Tips to Improve Your Management Style
Effective management requires developing both hard and soft skills to build employee satisfaction and productivity. These six tips—including mastering delegation, identifying your management style, leveraging technology, and leading by example—help modern managers adapt to today’s complex workplace demands.
Leading change – how hard can it be?
Leading change successfully requires more than setting vision—today’s leaders must balance heroic qualities with accessibility and realistic expectations about what they can personally achieve, while engaging followers who demand empowerment and connection.
Finding Leaders Within Your Organization
Develop internal leadership pipelines by identifying and grooming employees with potential, engagement, and accountability. Creating a succession plan prevents leadership vacuums and preserves organizational culture when key managers depart.
Why change programmes fail in their tracks
Most change programmes fail because they overlook the human element. While leaders focus on systems and processes, employees struggle with unresolved grievances and resistance rooted in past treatment. True transformation requires senior leaders to model change themselves and address employee concerns directly, not just deliver workshops about the future.
Individualism vs Collectivism
The tension between individual and collective needs exists everywhere—from government tax policy to organizational performance. Great leaders balance rewarding individual achievement with aligning teams around shared goals they genuinely believe in, using core values as a foundation for alignment.
Basics of Starting a Franchise Business
Learn the key steps to starting a franchise business, including researching franchisors, securing funding through banks or SBA loans, and getting professional guidance. Franchises offer lower startup costs and higher success rates than independent businesses, along with brand name support and established business models.
How can L&D support project managers with setting and managing expectations?
L&D professionals can help project managers set and manage client expectations by teaching them to articulate their value through benefits rather than features, and coaching them to handle common stakeholder questions confidently. Key strategies include reframing PM responsibilities to highlight tangible outcomes, and using visual examples to align client expectations with realistic project constraints around time, budget, and quality.
Negotiation Practices That Enhance Sales Profits
Learn effective sales negotiation practices that can boost your profits. Master techniques like listening before discounting, avoiding price ranges, emphasizing value over cost, and asking strategic questions to guide prospects toward better outcomes.
Can business leaders do more to benefit society?
Deloitte’s latest survey reveals declining millennial trust in business leaders, with only 47% believing company heads are committed to improving society. The findings highlight a growing gap between what younger workers expect from employers regarding ethics and social responsibility and what businesses are perceived to deliver.
Post-Brexit: businesses must focus on L&D
Post-Brexit restrictions on EU worker movement will make it harder for UK businesses to recruit international talent, making investment in employee training and development essential for workforce sustainability and competitiveness.
Encourage Employees To Take Leadership Training
Help employees embrace leadership training by clearly explaining its benefits and demonstrating commitment from top management. When leaders actively participate in training and model the behaviors you expect, employees are more likely to invest in their own development and career growth.
Why Everyone Should Seek Out A Mentor At Work
A mentor accelerates professional growth by leveraging their experience to help you avoid early-career mistakes, identify quality training opportunities, and expand your industry network. Despite the proven benefits, few workers today actively seek mentorship, missing a powerful advantage for career advancement.
Encourage Employees To Take Leadership Training
Leadership training transforms employees into future leaders, but many struggle to embrace these opportunities. To encourage participation, clearly explain training benefits, lead by example with management involvement, and create a workplace culture that supports skill development and growth.
Is An Executive Coaching Program Right for You?
Executive coaching programs help professionals overcome career stalls and reach higher success levels. Group coaching models, particularly those using psychodynamic systems, offer peer feedback and leadership skill development that individual coaching cannot provide, making them effective for executives seeking breakthrough results.
Tips for Training Better Sales Managers
Improve sales manager training by focusing on honesty, building genuine connections with customers, and delivering exceptional service that encourages word-of-mouth referrals instead of relying on cold-calling techniques.
The Benefits of Mentors for Young Entrepreneurs
Mentorship plays a pivotal role in young entrepreneurs’ success, particularly in developing management skills and reflective learning. Finding the right mentor requires careful consideration of industry expertise, personality fit, and open-mindedness from the mentee to maximize growth potential.
How to Be a Successful Coach or Trainer
Successful coaching requires standing out from average professionals by delivering transformative insights and specialized expertise to a specific niche. Rather than simply offering basic guidance, exceptional coaches provide clients with breakthrough “aha moments” that lead to measurable results and inspire lasting client loyalty.
Why You Should Take A Leadership Training Course
Leadership training courses develop essential skills that distinguish true leaders from managers, including self-confidence, self-awareness, and the ability to learn from mistakes. These courses enable professionals to inspire loyalty, adapt to challenges, and adopt effective techniques through interaction with other leaders.