Linkage’s Best Practices in Leadership Development
From a new book including Case Studies – Instruments – Trainingby David Giber, Louis Carter and Marshall Goldsmith, Editors“Over the past few years, there has been an explosion of interest in leadership development. In 1998, Linkage, Inc. and I collaborated in completing a study of over 350 companies involved with leadership development. We found the […]
Capability Snapshot – a tool for building learning organisations
The Capability Snapshot model is a practical tool tested in the US and Canada for building learning organisations. Information about the tool is being presented at a workshop at the ECLO conference in Glasgow during May 1999.Information about the tool is available on the website.There is a test version where you can apply the tool […]
Teams at Work
An article in the May issue of HR Magazine explores the value of creating teams:-“Just as Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney cried “Let’s put on a show!” to solve problems in their 1940s movie lives, many businesses cry “Let’s build teams!” to attack problems ranging from low productivity to poor morale, high costs and missed […]
Organisational Development Network surveys present and potential members
The US-based Organisational Development Network is conducting an extensive online survey to determine what sort of services in the OD field it should be delivering over the Internet in future.This extensive survey shows several of the ways in which professional associations are beginning to recognise the huge value of the Internet for develivering member value. […]
New ideas in Leadership thinking
This website is developed by MG – Management General (a group of writers and tutors on the subject of management and leadership). The site is “about leading your organization, community, and yourself.”“Our mission is to define, establish, and promote managerial leadership. Although engaged in public speaking and consulting, we are equally dedicated to the collection, […]
Peter Senge’s ‘Fifth Discipline Fieldbook’ website
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, published in 1994, followed up on Peter Senge’s book The Fifth Discipline. While The Fifth Discipline laid out the principles particularly applicable to long-term organizational improvement, the Fieldbook was meant to answer the question “What should we do differently when we go to work on Monday morning?” Forging a new, and […]
‘The Dance of Change’ – making learning organisations real
The new book by Peter Senge looks at ‘the challenge of sustaining momentum in learning organisations’ and follows on earlier work presented in the Fifth Discipline.This website is devoted to the new book and includes fascinating pages on the history and development of the learning organisation concept, the book contents list, ideas for implementation and […]
Strategic business skills training online
Ninth House provides an online learning network for managers and staff groups to deliver personalised and interactive strategic business skills training direct to the desktop. Ninth House provides an online learning network for managers and staff groups to deliver personalised and interactive strategic business skills training direct to the desktop.
‘Bonanza’ for thousands on Learning at Work Day – 20 May
Thousands of employees will be focusing on learning on Thursday 20 May, national Learning at Work Day. Hundreds of employers, including the West Country Ambulance Service, Trebor Bassett Ltd, the National Trust, Vimto Soft Drinks, British Aerospace and Rolls Royce have been in touch with the Campaign for Learning to find out how they can […]
Better Business
A recommended website for small business, entrepreneurs and freelancers. Contents looks as though they may be useful to freelance trainers and consultants. A recommended website for small business, entrepreneurs and freelancers. Contents looks as though they may be useful to freelance trainers and consultants.
ECLO 6th Annual Conference, Glasgow
Programme for the 6th Annual Conference of the European Consortium for the Learning Organisation, Glasgow, 19-21 May 1999Conference theme: Building Learning Organisations: Tools and TechniquesHosted by The Glasgow Development Agency and their partners in The Glasgow Learning Alliance Programme for the 6th Annual Conference of the European Consortium for the Learning Organisation, Glasgow, 19-21 May […]
An ethics toolkit for managers
This is a free WWW guidebook, equivalent to around 20 pages of text which is available for reading on-screen or saving and printing.The author, Carter McNamara says:- · This free guidebook provides straightforward advice for busy leaders and managers to manage ethics in their workplaces, whether nonprofit or for-profit. · This guidebook takes about two […]
Non-for-profit organisations – managers’ resource library
Another resource library developed by Carter McNamara providing a comprehensive guide and library to online resources covering all aspects of the management of not-for-profit organisations – from strategic planning to the induction of volunteers.Although the material and links are primarily American, this library is an excellent reference resource for managers working throughout this sector. Another […]
Strategies to create a culture of lifelong learning at work
Fourth paper in the series by Nigel Hemmington forming part of the CPD virtual conference presently running on the MCB website. This has been a fascinating, open conference, and this paper continues the excellent level of debate. It presents a scholarly and informed review of the factors and conditions necessary to promote a lifelong learning […]
People Management features on learning in organisations
Several of the feature articles in the current issue of People Management focus on aspects of the development of learning organisations. These articles will be available online in the People Management archive from around 9 April.The contents digest of these articles includes:-Opportunism knocksHow does an organisation for learning go about becoming a learning organisation? GEC’s […]
Organisational Learning Project
The Local Government Management Board is running the Organisational Learning Project from which this information is drawn:The Organisational Learning Project aims to improve organisational learning in local authorities and their partner organisations by applying insights from complexity science and systems thinking to teamwork, change management, innovation and service improvement. The Learning from Complexity project is […]
Learning from Complexity Pack
‘Learning from Complexity’ is a ‘personal learning resource pack for organisational learning’. It has been produced as part of the Local Government Management Board’s Organisational Learning Project. It contains a unique and up-to-the-minute set of insights drawn from complexity science, new management ideas, and systems thinking, made accessible for local authorities. You can find out […]
Measurement Kit – the impact of training and development
From the ASTD website : Measurement Kit™Tools for Benchmarking and Continuous Improvement Please Note:The online version of Part I of the Kit is under development and will be released in April. We apologize for the delay. Human capital–the collected skills, talents, and knowledge of workers–has increased in importance in recent years, and companies now find […]
Collaborate 98 – a virtual conference about virtual teams
Although this conference, run by the Organisational Development Network has now closed (it ran last September) its another fascinating example of how online learing and conferencing is allowing people to engage in debate and discussion without moving away from their work. They can choose how much (or how little) they wish to participate. Check the […]
‘Teambuilding – don’t confuse the sizzle with the steak’
A reflective article in the current issue of Training Journal looks at teambuilding and asks pertinent questions about managers’ use of teambuilding activities:“Winter is here, I can tell! Since the end of October, everyone seems to be talking about ‘teambuilding’. People talk with a new vigour and determination to ‘really make things work this time’.The […]
