E-learning: how to develop emotional intelligence skills
Training people in emotional intelligence online can be a highly successful way to develop individuals, but it needs to be supported offline to reap the greatest benefits. With budgets for training and development being continually cut, it is important that any training intervention can be shown to add value to an organisation or to contribute […]
Why integrity should be at the centre of your value system
Exercising your moral compass at work is an increasingly valuable quality, particularly in this digital age when we never really ‘switch off’ and values are all too easily manipulated. We live in a world of fake news, a world where we can reinvent ourselves online and fabricate our lives however we want to. If you are authentic in your actions and […]
How to activate the potential of leaders by boosting their heads and hearts
The latest research from Egon Zehnder (2018) proves that CEOs believe they are operating up to 50% below their potential. Talent gaps, disruptive change, poor productivity, low engagement levels and silo working are all taking their toll. Doing things simpler, better and faster is the new prevailing mantra for leaders everywhere, but to enable leaders […]
Combining AI and neuroscience to transform lifelong learning
Learning is a natural human function. It’s how we progress, grow and develop, especially in our early years. However, in our culture we have tended to see the end of university as the end of our formal education. Discover here how AI and machine learning can nurture lifelong learning and help us transition into more fulfilling and […]
A new way of coaching: how to reset your coachee’s operating system
In order to facilitate real, lasting change, executive coaches need to understand what drives behaviour and create the right conditions for learning to occur. Executive coaching is no longer enough in today’s challenging, fast paced working environment. Issues like the threat of AI, economic volatility, overwhelming workloads, and gender divides means the workforce continually […]
Neuroscience and leadership: is your brain preventing you from being a better leader?
A leadership training course may show you how to behave in critical situations, but when the pressure is on at work your brain’s natural behaviour will dominate how you react. Can this be overcome? There’s a fundamental difference between management and leadership. Management is process-oriented; it’s about setting objectives, delegating, giving feedback, assessing performance and […]
Six neuroscientific insights that can help improve learning performance
Dr Daniel Glaser, Neuroscientist and Director of the Science Gallery at King’s College London, shed light on the inner workings of our learning brains at the CIPD Learning and Development Show on the 25 April 2018 in London. Using just a small sprinkling of his neuroscientific research and understanding, Glaser captivated the L&D audience with […]
Brain fitness: handling stress in a learning environment
If your learners are stressed, they will struggle to process new information, highlights Sally Tanski, Leadership Development Facilitator and Coach for Full Potential Group. Below she offers six strategies to improve brain fitness and increase learning. My previous article looked at increasing our level of neuro-agility – our brain fitness – which enables us to learn quicker […]
Brain agility: maximise your learning investment and future proof your talent
Arie de Geus, Shell Oil, once famously said in the 80s ‘A company’s ability to learn faster than its competitors may be its only sustainable competitive advantage in the future.’ This quote has never been truer than it is today as organisations face one of the toughest eras of disruptive change – the fourth industrial […]
How to remove the glass ceiling
The corporate glass ceiling is an unacknowledged barrier to advancement in a corporation. It is an invisible but real barrier through which the next stage or level of advancement can be seen, but cannot be reached. We hear and read about the desire and need to smash it to allow advancement. Smashing and broken glass […]
Emotional intelligence: Do you know the four basic components?
Understanding and engaging the emotional intelligence of your workforce is crucial if organisations want to thrive in the modern world. When I first learned about emotional intelligence, it was a niche subject predominantly compartmentalised within specialist or clinical areas such as psychology, psychotherapy and the like. And if you didn’t have an ‘ology’, you had no real business […]
Chunking – the efficient way to store information in your brain and succeed
You can’t learn a complex skill instantly. Your brain has to break down incoming information into manageable, bite-sized ‘packets’ in order to embed them into your long-term and muscle memory. The number of steps depends on a number of factors, including intelligence, interest in subject matter, and learning environment (learning in a dance studio versus […]
What sort of mindset do you adopt when you come up against obstacles or difficulties?
Emma Sue Prince is the founder of Unimenta, a free resource for practitioners delivering experiential learning or soft skills. Join them today. Let’s face it – we are all overwhelmed with information these days coming at us from every angle. From morning to night we are all suffering from a massive dose of information be […]
How can we quickly deal with unconscious bias?
Your decisions are more heavily influenced by unconscious bias than you may realise and influence your attitudes and how you behave towards other people. You may think that you are making a solid, rational decision based on weighing up the evidence but it will still be driven by instinctive feelings as much as by rational […]
The multiple benefits of improving your self-confidence
Self-confidence can be hard to come by. It’s much easier to criticise yourself – and skip over positive thoughts about a job well done. But listening to a negative internal monologue isn’t just bad for you, it’s also bad for your business. Confidence in your company starts with confidence in the leader of your company; without […]
The five stages of Brexit
If you want to know how resilient we are as a nation, you only have to look at how quickly we went through the five stages of grief when the result of the Brexit referendum was announced. There was little time for denial as the results came flooding in from counting stations across the country. […]
What’s the label that works – wellbeing or productivity?
Wellbeing programmes are now a major part of most companies' employee offering. But do they do much good? In the conversations we have, many senior people recognise the importance of employee wellbeing but also talk about the culture which prevents people, especially senior people, taking part. They also talk about how prevention is better than […]
What do a trainer and a neuroscientist have in common?
More than you might think, says Hannah Moffatt, creative director and trainer at language consultancy, The Writer. As a trainer you instinctively know what makes learners tick. You might not have a PhD in neuroscience, but you’re always experimenting – looking for the best ways to make ideas stick beyond the classroom. Now neuroscientists are […]
L&D news round-up: 2 April
That’s right – it’s our news round-up, including a rather ‘meta’ story from the FT. Enjoy. Talent Analytics: Predicting HR’s Way Out Of The Fog – Forbes The Royal Navy style of leadership – City AM How play-based learning can give young children skills for life – TES Connect Transformational leadership: sustainable change for a better organisation – Bangkok Post […]
Learning to learn: what type of learner are you?
Hot on the heels of a very energetic #chat2lrn, comes this piece from Monique Craig about learning styles. Which rings true for you, if any? Before you face another learning task, it's a good idea to determine what kind of learning you prefer and which one is in line with your natural capabilities. This awareness […]
