How To Boost Your Sales Team’s Productivity
Boost your sales team’s productivity by teaching efficient time management, reducing administrative tasks, providing quality leads, and investing in ongoing training and education. These strategies help salespeople focus on selling while staying motivated and performing at their best.
Learning innovation and strategic intent: moving L&D to the next level
Digital learning transformation often focuses on basic efficiency gains, but true value comes from aligning L&D strategy with broader business goals like growth, talent retention, and innovation. Research shows most organizations operate at lower transformation levels and miss opportunities to maximize learning’s strategic impact.
The Apprenticeship Levy: making it work for your leadership needs
The UK’s Apprenticeship Levy requires large employers to invest 0.5% of payroll into apprenticeships training. Organizations can strategically use this funding to develop leadership skills across all levels and address the UK’s significant management talent gap.
Is L&D doing enough to create truly effective learning?
Most organizations have adopted 70:20:10 learning strategies but fail to translate them into meaningful outcomes for learners. Research reveals that less than one-third of L&D departments adequately support learner application and sustained learning in the workplace, indicating a significant gap between digital transformation efforts and truly effective learning.
5 Steps to Resolving Issues in Project Management
Learn five essential steps to resolve project management issues effectively: foresee risks during planning, give your team clear roles and purposes, maintain open communication, take collaborative action, and develop multiple solutions before problems escalate.
Apprenticeships – not just for carpenters?
Apprenticeships extend far beyond trades and manual skills—business-focused programs like Level 3 and Level 5 Leadership and Management apprenticeships can develop your managers and leaders while utilizing the Apprenticeship Levy. Many business owners remain unaware these qualifications exist for senior roles and team leaders.
What’s the reality of digital learning transformation today?
Over 71% of organizations are undergoing digital learning transformation, but only 5% have completed it. Driven by business agility, cost pressures, and personalization needs, true digital transformation requires more than new technology—it demands alignment with organizational goals and a learner-centered approach.
Creating Learning Culture in Your Company
Building a learning culture in your company is essential for employee retention, especially among Millennials who view jobs as growth opportunities. Companies that prioritize continuous learning and development adapt faster to change, perform better, and retain top talent longer than competitors.
A Guide To Making An International Hire
Learn key strategies for hiring international candidates, including remote work options, understanding visa and logistics requirements, and leveraging cultural diversity as a competitive advantage for your business.
5 Things to Today to Become a Better Manager
Improve your management skills with five practical strategies: build stronger relationships with your team, empower them to solve problems, understand what motivates each person, delegate effectively, and commit to continuous learning. These actionable tips help you become a better manager starting today.
Contribute to Your Employees Career Development
Support your employees’ career growth through regular communication, constructive feedback, and development programs. When employers invest in employee development, staff become more engaged, loyal, and committed to company success.
Leadership, my mother’s love and the ultimate sacrifice
Ben Morton reflects on true leadership through his mother’s sacrifice when he joined the British Army, and later when he faced impossible decisions commanding soldiers during deployment to Iraq. His story explores how leaders must prioritize their team’s needs over their own.
On Learning Agility
Learning agility—the ability to learn and perform in unfamiliar situations—is critical for leadership development and organizational success. This skill involves speed, flexibility, experimentation, risk-taking, and collaboration, and can be assessed using specialized tools like Burke’s Learning Agility Inventory to strengthen manager capabilities.
It’s official: business is no longer a competition
In the digital age, competing to be number one in your market is becoming obsolete. Disruptive companies succeed by reinventing markets entirely rather than winning traditional competition, while internally focused competitive cultures actually hinder innovation and business growth.
How to Improve Wellbeing in the Workplace
Excessive workplace stress harms employee health and productivity. Creating a stress-free, engaging environment through better ergonomics, air quality, noise control, movement opportunities, and nutrition significantly improves both employee wellbeing and business performance.
Six steps to ineffective leadership
Discover six deliberately counterproductive leadership practices that will help you become an ineffective leader. This satirical guide humorously reverses genuine leadership wisdom, highlighting common mistakes like ignoring strategic vision, overscheduling, and constant availability.
5 Benefits of Hiring an Agile Coach
An agile coach brings extensive expertise and hands-on experience to guide organizations through software development transitions. They provide immediate, practical support, offer neutral third-party perspectives, and help teams deliver higher-value products while improving employee competence and customer satisfaction.
How to Handle Vegan Employees in Your Workplace
Learn how to support vegan employees in your workplace by providing inclusive meal options, preventing workplace harassment, accommodating personal beliefs, and fostering a culture of respect and understanding among your team.
How to Bring Mindfulness to the Workplace
Mindfulness in the workplace improves employee focus, reduces stress, and enhances decision-making and resilience. Research shows even 5 minutes daily of mindfulness practice significantly decreases stress levels and increases productivity, making it a valuable strategy for organizational performance.
How your management style can affect business growth
Your management style directly influences employee morale, productivity, and business growth. Research identifies six key approaches—from coercive to coaching—each suited to different situations. Effective leaders adapt their style to create motivated teams and drive performance improvements.