How To Care About Your Employees
The success of a company can be measured through the satisfaction of their employees. Company needs to take care of their employees’ well being, finances and professional growth. That is the reason why so many organizations put so much emphasis on taking care of their employees. Even after the awareness about it there are so […]
How can you create a culture of hungry learners? Adopt a marketing mindset
Learning culture is a trending topic for many learning and development professionals – and there’s a good reason why, says Stephanie Morgan, Director of Learning Solutions at Bray Leino Learning. Creating a learning culture within your organisation has a host of companywide benefits. But for now I am going to highlight three pertinent reasons why learning […]
4 Quick Fixes For Peak Networking & Productivity
You’re always on the go. If you’re like most professionals, you have to jot info down on a calendar in order to remember it and are voraciously looking for more time in each day. To make sure that you’re not forgetting the details while nailing down the major points, there are some quick hacks that […]
Why accidental managers should be suitably trained
Like hairdressers, mechanics, doctors and just about every profession, some managers are better than others. The best managers encourage, support and advise their staff, whilst bad managers provide little such support. Accidental managers often fall into the latter category. The answer to overcoming the often less effective ways accidental managers run teams, is through training. […]
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 […]
How far should you invest in employee learning?
Matched learning, employee development, sponsored qualifications – whatever you may call it, offering an employee learning scheme brings the double advantage of upskilling the workforce while serving as an effective retention tool. Most workers highly value the opportunity to learn – even more so if work is offering to pay for said qualification. At potentially […]
Soft skills: how to teach the missing basics to today’s young talent
Just imagine the impact you could have if you were to spend time every week systematically building up the soft skills of your team. You will send a powerful message, week by week. You will make them aware. You will make them care. You will help them learn the missing basics one by one – one […]
How training our managers to ‘listen’ reduced absence
Deborah Astles is HR Director for corporate responsibility and policy at the logistics and manufacturing company Unipart. In this article she explores how managerial training reduced workplace absence. As a nation, we’re getting better at opening up the conversation around mental health, with many employees opting to confide in their manager in the first instance. […]
Why you need to stop focusing on efficiency
Working longer, harder and faster doesn’t always lead to bigger and better. Peak productivity isn’t a simple, linear formula whereby if we put more in we’ll get more out. The reality is, it’s more of a bell curve. If we keep using the same strategies to get more stuff done, if we keep pushing harder, […]
Building a SADEL Organisation: a look at teams
Building a Self-Directed, Agile, Digital, Exponential, Learning (SADEL) organisation is critical to survival in a digital world. In part 4 of a 5-part series, organisational behaviourist and learning strategist Kerryn Kohl takes an in-depth look at building teams in a SADEL organisation. In part 3 we explored the core of this framework, the mindset and […]
How to make the gig economy work for HR
There are some seismic and much debated changes going on in the way people want to work. Seismic is undoubtedly a big word but the evidence is compelling. For instance, it is predicted that by 2027 there’ll be more contingent workers than permanent in the US workforce. In the UK, 1.2million workspaces per annum are now […]
We know about IQ and EQ, but what about PQ?
A species evolves by developing new ways of understanding and responding to its environment. Over the last 20 years or so, the office-dwelling species has taken an evolutionary leap by recognising EQ alongside IQ. Prior to this, corporate employees were largely recruited, assessed and valued on the basis of their intellect… Then Daniel Goleman offered […]
5 Lessons I Learned My First Year of Freelancing
I always knew that I’d be a writer in some capacity. With that said, I also knew that I wanted to earn a steady income and acquire my own sense of financial security. Writing came secondary to my full-time job, but over the past year, I’ve been able to make a considerable side business in […]
Make your soft skills training programs mandatory
Should you make a training program mandatory? As project manager, I regularly chat with clients to help them implement an online soft skills program. In the first meeting about training implementation, I usually start talking about making the program mandatory. This is often seen as an obvious thing to do, but sometimes it meets with […]
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 […]
Four reasons why you should train your people out of their job title
We know that for today’s employees, the chance to learn and develop skills is becoming the most important factor in choosing a job. In fact, it’s been estimated that almost a third of employees think their skills are redundant now or will be in the next 1-2 years. So it’s no wonder that a report […]
Learning through the ages: making it work for all
One of the main challenges faced by UK businesses comes in meeting the L&D needs of their multi-generational workforce that takes account of their different motivations and learning styles. What we must increasingly consider is how to make training work through the ages. Increasing the skills of the UK workforce could generate £80 billion for […]
5 Tricks to Boost Team Performance & Increase sale
Better team performance and high productivity are the most essential contributors towards increasing sales and hence, revenues. The problem, however, that most businesses face is achieving required performance and productivity is easier said than done. One logical explanation to this is the majority of business owners or sales managers solely focus on the bottom line, […]
The Best Ways to Avoid Burnout At Work
Burnout: physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress. Today, burnout is one of those hot buzzwords floating around every trendy professional sphere. We’ve all heard about it, we’ve all talked about it, but most of us still don’t really know what to do about it. Burnout is a serious epidemic, one that continues […]
Let us take L&D on a transformation journey in 2018
Something has to be said that has been said many times before: L&D needs to transform itself. We are in an age of constant business change and L&D needs to keep up. Better still, L&D needs to be helping drive business transformation, creating a culture of agility and continuous learning that ensures organisations are at […]
