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 […]
Gaining Confidence When You’re New to Leadership
Just got a promotion to a leadership position? That’s great – but you might not be feeling as confident as you’d hoped. When you’re new to leadership, it can feel difficult to assert your authority and designate tasks with confidence. Luckily, confidence is a skill that can be learned, and the simple tips below will […]
From super manager to inspiring leader: how to drop your work mask and be your authentic self
It’s time to drop the work mask and share with your peers how you’re really feeling, argues leadership mentor Ben Morton. Do you ever feel like you’ve got a few too many plates spinning and that at least one is about to come crashing down? And does that feeling cause your imposter syndrome to surface, filling […]
How to Simplify Your Leadership in 7 Steps
Being an effective leader ultimately comes down to two things – leadership and communication. Of course, successful management is multi-faceted and often tricky, but at its core remains a simple truth – leadership is about an ability to influence and motivate other people, and to do this we must be able to clearly and effectively […]
How you can move from problem-focused to solution-focused
Today’s leadership requires a totally different way of looking at things when it comes to encouraging creative problem-solving. Leadership is about acknowledging a problem and immediately exploring the opportunity behind it. It believes that every problem hides a solution that opens up to new options. This is what we call a solutions-focused mindset. Every conflict […]
Best ways to grow your business
If your business is not doing well or if you are concerned about the development of your business in future, you will have to come up with an effective strategy to take it to the next level. That’s where you should follow a systematic approach. Starting up a business could be a great challenge. When […]
3 Keys To Building A Killer Team
Without a doubt, you need a solid nucleus of stars to help you achieve your goals as a professional or a company. No one does anything alone, and you’ll go much further aligning your energy, creativity and resources with others who are joined together for a common goal. Napoleon lays out this mastermind group philosophy […]
Four reasons why HR matters to small businesses
Thousands of small businesses and startups don’t have any form of HR support. But the UK faces an unprecedented talent crunch, huge business uncertainty and stagnant productivity, so now is not the time for young businesses to skimp on professional HR support. Here are four key reasons why you need HR experts, according to some […]
Risk is a state of mind
Leading an organisation can sometimes feel a bit like a game of snakes and ladders. You aim to be successful, to lead your organisation up those ladders towards growth and profitability and success whilst avoiding all those potential pitfalls which can see your hard work come to naught. And let’s face it, those potential pitfalls […]
How do you lead the way in L&D?
How well do you represent the Learning & Development (L&D) profession? When Training Zone asked me to write on this subject, I thought I’d share some ways I lead the way. Take a look below: 1 – Walk the Talk I personally think that when you are passionate about what you do, it is easy […]
Romanticising leadership: are we undeniably guilty?
The heroic leader swooping in to save a business from certain death, a trail of devoted followers in their wake.We all love a good character and the role of the leader is one that we are endlessly fascinated with…. A quick Google search on ‘how to be a great leader’ brings back 460 million results […]
Training industry trends 2018
Like you, I’m always interested to learn about current and upcoming trends in the training industry. To help define the most comprehensive snapshot of the UK training industry, I would appreciate your time in completing this short survey. All participants will be entered into a prize draw to win an iPad and will also be issued […]
