A round-up of training news
Inquiry into the Google generation learning experience Recruiters say they’d like more training Major new training program to expand ‘talking’ therapies workforce Women-only management training pilot a runaway success Career crunch for women during economic slowdown? In brief Inquiry into the Google generation learning experienceA UK-wide inquiry into the widespread use of new technology by […]
A round-up of training news
Coaching Roundtable Sign Statement of Shared Values Management Slog Reaps Few Rewards Work Bully May be the Boss Workers Leap at Chance to Train Sainsburys ‘Graduates’ Make an Impact Righttrack Rewards Two Top Delegates Dyslexia Website Tackles ‘Hidden Disability’ Free Direct Marketing ‘Guru’ Sessions Coaching Roundtable Sign Statement of Shared ValuesA major breakthrough in the […]
Report Identifies Talent Management Challenges
Just half of organisations have a talent management system in place, according to a new report from the Chartered Management Institute and Ashridge Business School.The research, called Maximising talent for business performance, suggests many employers confuse performance with talent management, using achievements to indicate future potential. Yet only 31% of respondents are confident that their […]
Bad Bosses: Who’s to Blame?
If we have a bad boss, our typical response is to blame the individual. However, Chetan Dhruve turns conventional logic on its head and explains how our workplaces have been unwittingly designed to mass produce dictator-bosses, and points out what we can do to change this. When we have a bad boss, what’s our typical […]
Case Study: E-Learning for the Elite
Security giants G4S have made e-learning work for them by cleverly using it to add value to all manner of leadership development initiatives within the business. In July 2004 rivals Securicor and Group 4 Falck, merged into G4S plc – the largest ever security solutions provider, operating in over 110 countries, on six continents.The new […]
Ask the Expert: Training Allowances
As organisations wake up to the pulling power of staff development for recruitment and retention, our experts assess the pros and cons of offering new starters a training allowance. Question: Have you heard of companies offering a training allowance to new recruits. For example a sum of money may be offered to allow a new […]
Employees Urged to Take Action on Bullying
An anti-bullying organisation is urging employees who witness others being bullied at work to take action against it before it escalates.As part of the ‘Ban Bullying at Work’ day campaign on Wednesday 7 November, Dignity at Work is advising people to step forward because, by maintaining a silence, an environment is created where it is […]
The Creative Mind at Work
We all need new, creative ideas to ensure continued business success, and the secret lies in a set of two particular principles, says business creativity practitioner David Weeks. We can thank Nobel Prize winning neurologist Roger Sperry’s 1960’s split brain experiments for our fascination in labelling people ‘left’ or ‘right’ brained. It is only a […]
Capability Management: L&D’s Future, or Another Fad?
Donald H Taylor asks whether Human Capital and Capability Management are the future of Learning & Development, or just another fad. Remember the e-learning boom of a few years back? Fun, wasn’t it?No, you’re right. It wasn’t much fun. It was a hyped-up chance for a few software vendors to hike their share prices before […]
Guide Promises to Handhold Bosses through The Companies Act
A new guide designed to help company directors comply with The Companies Act has been launched.The Companies Act 2006: Directors Duties Guidance promises to help directors in a new obligation to consider their business’ impact on people and the environment. The Act, which has been described as the “biggest shake up of company law for […]
Motivation, Focus and Performance
In today’s competitive market, ensuring that staff are performing to their maximum potential is essential to the success of the department and the company overall. But what can be done to ensure that all staff are motivated and strive to achieve their very best? Sales performance trainer Andy Preston looks at how to improve the […]
Informal Learning: Threat or Opportunity?
Donald H Taylor asks whether informal learning is an opportunity or a threat for the Learning & Development professional. Informal learning is a hot buzz phrase right now, but what does it actually mean? And what in particular does it mean for Learning and Development professionals?Coined and popularised by Jay Cross in his blog and […]
Creative Spark
There has been a lot of discussion about the need to innovate and how UK plc is falling behind in the innovation stakes. In this article Simon Derry looks at how organisations can encourage managers and staff to unleash their creative and innovative abilities. Misunderstanding about what innovation, in a business context, truly is seems […]
Happy Staff Equals High Performance
Feeling good at work is not only a signal of good functioning but will actually enhance an organisation’s performance according to Nic Marks, Head of the centre for well-being, at New Economics Foundation.Speaking at the CIPD’s annual conference, Marks said that positive emotions are particularly important in relationship to several key performance indicators such as […]
HR ‘Lacks Strategic Skills’
The biggest challenge that HR departments face in their bid to become more strategic is a lack of skills, according to research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Institute of Employment Studies.In a poll the CIPD found that 53% of organisations had restructured their HR function in the last year and […]
The Harrogate Pilgrimage: A Journey Worth Making? By Annie Hayes
The all together more palatable September, term-time slot is one reason why many are attending this year’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) annual conference. Annie Hayes finds out who is going and why. Practitioner keynotes and inspirational speakersThere’s no doubt that the glitz, glamour and fame that speakers in past conferences brought has […]
Absence Management: So Much to Learn
Consultant Paul Avis looks at the cost of not training managers how to deal with absences. Employers still remain blissfully unaware of the implications of when a line manager fails to properly enforce a good absence policy.Absence or attendance management is possibly the one area that most organisations struggle to manage efficiently and effectively, so […]
Talent Management – Making it Work
Is talent management really as important as reports suggest? Phil Rice at PA Consulting Group explains why the implementation of the programme is more important than its design. Organisations can no longer take for granted that supply of local talent in key skills or leadership will meet demand, remain efficient in a global market or […]
Can you Train for Honesty?
Few will have missed the media furore surrounding the BBC and the apparent breaches of trust that have occurred in the running of competitions. The BBC seems to be taking peremptory action by arranging training in editorial integrity for 16,000 employees. This may be a necessary reaction to a serious threat to the BBC’s perceived […]
Knowledge Management – Are You in the Know?
Can you get your staff to pool their collective brain power into a formidable corporate hive-mind without creating an office of automatons? Rob Lewis finds out if knowledge management has the answer. One of the early goals of our departing prime minister was to establish a “modern, knowledge driven economy”. His first term, coincidentally, saw […]
