Attending L&D events can improve your teams output

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In today’s extremely competitive business environment, having any advantage over the competition is not only useful, it is critical. One of the most important tools a company has is its sales team and people. The selling environment today is more competitive than ever, which is why it’s so important that your business stays one step […]

Five tips to a people-centric approach to learning and ongoing performance

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In the past, the performance management process was very much backward looking. Typically, an annual performance review meeting would make a judgement on past performance and use it to determine learning and development plans for the next year. But HR and L&D leaders know this approach just doesn’t meet the needs of today’s workforce. According […]

Stuck doing work that doesn’t come naturally?

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Gallup tells us that employees who play to their strengths are six times more likely to be engaged. Nice work if you can get it, but what happens if you don’t have the opportunity? What if your team relies on you to do the kind of work that just doesn’t come naturally to you? You can’t […]

Why you should be using performance consulting to address performance and capability gaps

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Learning needs analysis (or training needs analysis) provides only a limited view of what organisations need from L&D, when the remit of the function is to improve performance and capability in delivery of an organisation’s goals. By only looking for learning activities, the opportunity to make real impact is largely lost. This is why performance […]

Holding your ground against the outsourcing wave

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Globalization has made it possible for people from different countries and cultures to successfully coexist and work together. Moreover, globalization has fueled the development of multinational companies and it has facilitated companies to expand their business to other countries. Then, due to the differences in the development of national economy, the next logical step was […]

Moonshot thinking: disrupting the norm in business

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Maybe you’ve thought about your core values, your mission statement or your vision but what about your moonshot? Yes, your moonshot. Mission, values and vision can often sit on a shelf gathering dust. A moonshot is different. Origins Originating from the Apollo and Soviet lunar programmes aiming to land humans on the moon, the term […]

You can’t handle the truth: Are you being bullied or performance managed?

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You’re being bullied, but an inner voice is telling you it’s performance management. You’re good at your job but whatever you do is never good enough for your manager. When you try to discuss your concerns, your manager says, “I don’t control how you feel, only you control how you feel”, making you feel victimised. […]

How to align your team with good co-ordination

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Better managers recognize that the art of management is something they need to learn. No one becomes a fully competent manager overnight. There are, of course, many ways of learning how to be an effective manager. There is no doubt that experience is the best teacher – the time you have spent as a manager […]

Strategic narratives: a simple story of successful leadership

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“But we’ve told them a thousand times….”  This is the frustrated refrain of senior executives when we discuss survey results saying that people have said they don’t know the organisation’s strategy.  Everyone would agree the pace of change in business let alone the world means that businesses must be nimble to anticipate and respond to […]

Annual appraisals are dead. Long live…?

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New research by YouGov in the UK has found that over half of UK employees think annual appraisals are “pointless” or “time consuming”, and see them as outdated. So, are the days of annual appraisals numbered? If so, where did they go wrong, and how can we build something better? Appraisals are often a form-filling […]

The New Learning Organisation: what is it and how to get there

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This is an interview with Jane Daly, Head of Strategic Insights, and Genny Dixon, Head of Research, at Towards Maturity. It was conducted off the back of the release of Towards Maturity’s free new report, In-Focus: Driving the New Learning Organisation. Jamie Lawrence, Managing Editor, TrainingZone: What are current trends suggesting the future of workplace learning will […]

Business development through big data

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All the leading brands recognised as world-class companies share one common quality. Design thinking. Modern-day marketing is not just about having the perfect logo or the perfect social campaign, you must form a genuine connection with your customer. Design thinking allows leading brands to engage with their clients psychologically and outmanoeuvre the competition. On the […]

How to Energize your Employees at Workplace

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Have you been giving it a thought to motivate and raise energy levels of your staff? Well! You are instinctively correct. More so if you are an entrepreneur and are in the business for a while. A healthy workplace breeds business growth as well as harmony among co-workers. The fact is trust, energy, and motivation […]

Investing in leadership development is invaluable

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Developing leadership and management expertise and skills is an investment no business should overlook. Companies and organisations, big and small, operate more efficiently and are generally more successful when led by an effectual management team. Well-trained managers help boost morale and set clear objectives, aiding company success, amongst a whole host of other profitable benefits. […]

Feedforward – A new direction in giving effective

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Giving effective Feedback is an essential leadership skill, one that is regularly dreaded. Employees need to know if their performance is what their leaders expect from them and, if not, they need suggestions on how to improve it. Many Leaders have used techniques such as the classic “feedback sandwich” approach which formed the core of many […]

How great CEOs put workplace culture first

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Culture affects employee onboarding, employee engagement, and customer appeal, so it’s not surprising that many great CEOs put workplace culture first. What is culture? Sometimes workplace culture gets confused with free food, unlimited vacation, and other perks. While such things may be an expression of culture, they aren’t culture itself. Culture is defined by the […]

CIPD Leaders in Learning – 7th September 2017

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CIPD Leaders in Learning events These are free events for L&D professionals (not just members) to attend, to learn, network and discuss with peers the current real challenges facing the industry. If you were not lucky enough to make this event, look at the CIPD website for future events. The topic this time around: Driving […]

The Best Guide to Online Track and Field Training

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Do you desire to be trained? Are you naturally gifted to get involved with physical strength, agility, and stamina? You might even have a pure desire to participate in a sports contest or game that requires physical skills worry less as you read through you will be guided on the right path. How Can I […]

Conflict management: A leadership imperative

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’Conversation’ is imperative to leadership and without effective conversation, leaders can’t communicate their position to the organization: A leader must share his ‘Vision’ before it can be lived, which requires conversation. Conversation underpins ‘Change’. While organizations remain firm to their value, people change, new people arrive and conversation becomes even more important. Meaning and purpose […]

A day in the life of: Brad Taylor, Director of People at CIPD

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We’re always curious to hear how our members and contributors tackle the challenges that the ever-changing world of L&D throws at them. We’ve got a wealth of experience and knowledge across the site, and what better way to showcase the diversity of our community than to get them to walk us through an average day? Want to […]