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 […]
Infographic: 2015 resolutions for managers
It may be February but it's never too late to improve your working practices to try and be better at your job. Those good people at GoodPractice sent us this nice infographic with some tips we could all use in our workflow. For further information on the bespoke products GoodPractice offer to Learning and Development […]
I want my leader to…
Google 'Leadership' and you get 487m links, no doubt 488m by the time you read this. Stephen Walker's challenge is what to add to this colossal data storage that is worth that little extra global warming to keep the servers humming. This article addresses what a good leader would do for him, his or her characteristics, […]
Does L&D need a seat at the top table? pt2
This is the second and final part of the 3rd article in Mike Collins’s trilogy focusing on the changing role and importance of evaluation for Learning & Development. You can read the first and second articles by clicking here and here. Back to the question Does L&D need a seat at the top Table? I hate this expression. […]
L&D news round-up: 30 Jan
Here they are – your news stories of the week. What 20 years in leadership has taught me – Fortune 15 Tips for Instilling Leadership Skills in Children – Entrepreneur Five Hot HR Tech Trends for 2015 – CMS Wire Leadership, The Internet, and the Eclipse of Capitalism – Forbes Traditional toys like jigsaws and Lego boost children’s problem solving […]
Does L&D need a seat at the top table?
This is the concluding article in Mike Collins’s trilogy focusing on the changing role and importance of evaluation for Learning & Development. You can read the first and second articles by clicking here and here. The changing role of L&D Putting the titular question to one side for a moment, this series has looked at […]
Caption competition: Jan/Feb 2015
A winner! Congrats to Audrey who won with this joke: ‘Dulux unveil their new sheep-dip colour chart’ Entry is free and open to all members. A winner!Congrats to Audrey who won with this joke:’Dulux unveil their new sheep-dip colour chart’Entry is free and open to all members.
L&D news round-up: 22 Jan
Once again – it’s this week’s news, starting off with a great story for kids who love their sleep. Napping may help infants’ learning skills – Medical News Today Apple ‘working on stylus for iPad Pro’ – The Telegraph Four people-leadership resolutions that will change your business in 2015 – Nation Multimedia 17 Great HR Resources for Entrepreneurs – […]
What makes a good leader?
Drawing on her own experiences, Leona Barr-Jones looks at the differences between leadership and management and why they are important in business. Leadership is the lifeblood of the British Army and underpins the people element of any operation in the military or business, innovating and shaping values and behaviours to ensure that an organisation performs […]
Why being accountable matters
Graham Scrivener essays the importance of being accountable as a leader. Imagine a place of work where no-one was accountable for their actions. It would be full of scapegoats, blame, and endless excuses when things go wrong. Promises would be broken, deadlines missed and costs always overrunning. Doesn't sound great and certainly not somewhere you'd expect […]