L&D news round-up: 7 May
It’s 7 May 2015. I’m sure something important is happening today. Oh well, here’s the week’s news and opinion. Tech sector job creation climbs to new high but skills focus needed – City AM ‘Game of Thrones’ Leadership Lessons for the Office – Wall Street Journal Google HR Boss: We Don’t Care Where You Went To College – Forbes […]
L&D news round-up: 30 April
News time, newshounds. It’s skills-heavy and General Election-lite, just the way we like it. It’s crunch time for the UK’s skills shortage: Our politicians must wake up – City A.M. The top 14 skills in the red hot market for marketing jobs – Venture Beat How Emotional Intelligence Became a Key Leadership Skill – HBR Blogs 2 Perspectives From […]
Leadership Styles…Which is your your style?
As we so often look to find ideas and feedback on leadership styles, do you have a a favoured approach for leading and inspiring your team? Certainly the type personalities that make up your team and the specific goal in mind may possibly determine your style? Here is an initial list of leadership styles that […]
The importance of motivating teams
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al Maktoum is the Prime Minister and Vice President of the United Arab Emirates and the Ruler of Dubai. His new book 'Flashes of Thought' offers us his insights in leadership, business and life. What lessons can we learn from this world leader on how he manages his teams? "It is […]
Female leadership: Role models rock!
How do you engage young females to be future leaders. Jane Kenyon has a few ideas. As a female champion I am delighted more and more businesses are getting real about gender parity along all levels of the talent pipeline. No-one is cheering louder than me for the companies that have recognised the undeniable contribution […]
L&D news round-up: 23 April
It’s the news. Read on for our stories of the week. The innovators: matching autistic people with jobs needing special skills – The Guardian Three Tests of Leadership in the New Disengagement Economy – The Huffington Post Talent is HR’s top priority but function needs to clarify its purpose, experts say – CIPD blogs Female leadership, entrepreneurship and […]
L&D news round-up: 16 April
News round-up time. Enjoy! The skills shortage: Mind the gap – The Economist HR – please stop thinking in ‘years’ – HRZone Ten Low-Cost Options For Customized Leadership Development – Forbes Training future doctors: how does medical education need to adapt? – The Guardian Training Matters: How do you teach digital journalism skills? – Hold the Front Page Plugging the skills […]
Ten ways to be a great boss
According to Gary Cattermole great bosses are not born great, they become great. Here he gives his top 10 tips for becoming an effective leader: Be clear about your vision for the business Without direction, it is easy to get lost. Tell your team what it is you are trying to achieve and how you […]
Nurture your female talent into pole position
We're getting there, but still a way off from gender parity in the boardroom. Cynthia Stuckey investigates. It's been hard to escape Lord Davies' report [1] announcing how 25% of FTSE 100 directors are now female. This is up from 12.5% four years ago and, as Vince Cable remarked, ‘FTSE 100 boards have made enormous […]
What leaders can do to manage workplace stress
Nigel Purse, chairman and director of The Oxford Group, on how effective communication from leaders can help to combat workplace stress. Stress is now the single biggest cause of sickness in the UK, with over 105 million work days lost to stress each year – costing UK employers £1.24bn. And research from the mental health […]
Great leaders are great teachers
Bernie Bulkin compares the life of a leader to the environment of the classroom. What can we learn? Read on to find out. I frequently thought of staff meetings, even the more senior level executive committees, as rather boring chunks of time in my work week. Sure there are things that need to be communicated, […]
Caption comp: March/April 2015
A winner! Congrats to EJRoden who won with this joke: ‘When they said they were going to reduce classroom training, this wasn’t what I’d envisaged.’ Entry is free and open to all members. A winner!Congrats to EJRoden who won with this joke:’When they said they were going to reduce classroom training, this wasn’t what I’d […]
L&D news round-up: 26 March
News time again! A bumper week this week. Appropriately, we end with Armageddon. Tips for Coaching Someone Remotely – Harvard Business Review HBR thinks it can be done. How to win at job interviews, according to Google’s HR boss – City AM Some fairly obvious tips from the big G. 5 Timeless Leadership Roles To Help Navigate Change – […]
Are the managers you’re training ‘too busy’?
Managers can suffer lack of engagement too. Kieran Hearty gives us some practical advice to minimise this happening. When you deliver training courses, how often do you suffer from the dreaded last minute 'no-shows'? Do your participants complain upon arrival about the lack of time that they have to attend training, or worse, to put […]
L&D news round-up: 12 March
News time again – we got leadership, IT skills, tech and, um, Terminator-related stories. Enjoy. NHS England’s Tim Kelsey says unions can help develop digital skills of health professionals – Chartered Society of Physiotherapy 9 Lesser Known Leadership Quotes That Inspire – Forbes Apple Watch: Three reasons new device ‘could be a game changer’ – The Independent Give pupils […]
Four steps to energising and retaining talent
Forum EMEA's Graham Scrivener give us a few simple pointers to keep hold of that most crucial asset of successful businesses: talent. If you caught the recent findings by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) then you're probably one of many HR and L&D professionals worried about losing talent this year. The ILM revealed […]
L&D news round-up: 19 Feb
News time again – have a look at these stories from around the L&D web. Heavy on leadership and…the weather. HRZone relaunch: The Missing Features – HRZone First up – it’s the relaunch of sister site HRzone. Editor Jamie Lawrence give us a few more details. Thousands of Doncaster children to benefit from new skills based […]
What we need from leadership training pt2
Stephen Walker concludes his feature about the ways in which leadership skills can be learnt. I will not list the top twenty leadership theories because you will come up with six more. There is a huge number of documents, videos, books, cave drawings, hieroglyphics and who knows what on leadership. Training in leadership entails exposure to […]
Thinking out aloud…
…about an idea for an activity that I want to implement for a leadership training for senior executives. Would love to hear any thoughts.. I want my program to have one integrated activity on the lines of a war game/World War II scenario where I plug in aspects of strategy, leadership styles, recruitment (?), teamwork, […]
What we need from leadership training
Stephen Walker reviews ways in which leadership skills can be learnt. Some of these skills are 'tools and techniques' and eminently learnable, so trainable, by the usual methods. Other leadership skills are of a more personal nature and require the Leader to grow his or her own skills. In some cases this can be greatly assisted […]