Suicide awareness training: Six risk factors to pay attention to
Tragically, 6,000 people every year in the UK alone are being lost to something that is now widely described by expert clinicians as preventable – suicide. How can L&D professionals ensure workers are educated on the risk factors and extend a lifeline to those in crisis?
Nine things you need to know about mentoring in a hybrid world
Hedda Bird considers the best practices and challenges of mentoring in a hybrid world.
Mastering meetings: The key to effective leadership
Meetings. Whether you love them, loathe them or sit somewhere in the middle, there’s no denying they are crucial for both teams and organisations. But ineffective meetings cost time and money. Here, Dani Bacon and Garin Rouch of Distinction Business Consulting explore strategies for better executed and more meaningful meetings.
How L&D can support employees in the cost-of-living crisis
Fighting sky-rocket living costs is tough but here’s what L&D can do to help learners.
Are there zombies in your leadership programme?
Dani Bacon and Garin Rouch are here to help you ensure zombie notions aren’t undermining your leadership programmes.
Learning how to give candid feedback
To be an effective leader you need to accept the responsibility of delivering constructive feedback, however uncomfortable it may be.
Rethinking Management Development: Broadening our approach for 2024
Organisational development experts Dani Bacon and Garin Rouch provide three pivotal areas to re-evaluate and enrich management development strategies in 2024.
Workplace gaslighting: Equip managers to address psychological manipulation
Are your leaders and managers equipped to spot and address gaslighting quickly?
What’s a super-helper and why are they damaging your organisation?
Super-helpers are at risk of burn-out. L&D can encourage better behaviours from everyone in the organisation and avoid exploiting these useful employees.
The challenge of middle management – the role of emotional intelligence and self-compassion
How improving emotional intelligence can help create harmony in the workplace.
Time to ditch the ‘vanilla’ management training
Get creative and practical with your approach to management development and choose things that make us feel good, and don’t break the bank.
Are your managers unwittingly promoting learned helplessness?
Micromanagers may not know the detriment of their controlling leadership style.
The difference between ‘learning workflow’ and ‘learning in the workflow’
Understanding the differences between ‘learning workflow’ and ‘learning in the workflow’ can help improve L&D training programmes.
Five unexpected barriers to learning transfer
Failure to embed learning transfer is costing businesses money and hindering employees’ learning. Here are some ways to stop the cycle.
RAF lessons: How to make the most of mediation
Mediation can be a valuable tool for establishing a more open workplace culture.
Five ways to get strategic as a new chief learning officer
How to unlock potential with a more strategic approach to L&D.
Weekly Design Challenge – Setting Expectations #1
Recently, I started setting myself weekly design challenges which comprise of designing and developing a 2.5 to 3-hour virtual training course that can be delivered on a platform such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams. My challenge for last week was to design a course titled, “Setting Expectations”. This course is aimed at new frontline managers […]
It’s time to leave your ego behind and pursue ethical leadership
A learning mindset and attitude of curiosity are key to expanding ethical awareness.
Conscious Affirmations for Aligned Leadership
Affirmations sometimes unfairly get a bit of a bad press… you might even be thinking twice about reading this article as you sense I might be limbering up to get all new agey on you. I hope to put your mind at ease. Let’s start by thinking about affirmations as powerfully intentional self-talk. Through […]
How to transform line managers into learning champions
Three ways line managers can bring learning to life for employees.
