Coffee Briefing: Digital detox, resilience training and learning how to programme your colleagues
We hope you're sitting comfortably with your favourite beverage, because it's time for us to walk you through our picks of the week's L&D news and opinion. Let us know what you think, and feel free to tell us what you've also enjoyed reading this week. Tech – How technology benefits learning (eLearning Industry) – […]
Breakfast Insight: A Simple Model of Motivation
Breakfast Insight is your short dose of new ideas and food for thought, perfect to watch with your morning coffee. Today we're chatting to Carole Gaskell, founder of Full Potential Group. Contact or ask Carole a question on Twitter at @fullpotentialgr. Carole tells us about: The 'motivation as energy' argument – our 'inner fire' Why helping […]
Optimizing Mid-Year Performance Evaluations
Every company, partnership, firm, organization and government department has goals. Regardless of whether institutions are profit oriented or non-profitable by purpose and constitution, they are founded by a purpose and strive for the realization of particular goals. Any good company that rarely misses its goals lays emphasis on the specifics of its goals. It sets […]
The importance of a financial education
As a financial wellbeing company, we regularly see young people applying for our financial products. In fact, 40% of our customers are under 30 years old. Clearly, this age group needs better access to knowledge than they have at the moment, which will help them to understand and improve their financial situation. But a financial […]
5 Vital Negotiation Skills Every Sales Person Needs to Have
How successful a deal is typically all depends on yourself as a sales person and your skills in negotiation. If a negotiation goes well you could be looking at a lucrative deal that you’re really happy with but, a bad negotiation could lead you to a deal that doesn’t really provide you or your company […]
Book review: Under New Management – How leading organizations are upending business as usual
Burkus is no stranger to controversial approaches to business, having previously penned The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas. It’s one I’ve already added to my Wish List for future reading, based on how engaging I have found his latest work. Burkus is not a sensationalist. He […]
The Learning Strategy Story – Introduction
Learning and development is a crucial part of medium to large organisations as there is a core belief that the most important resource in an organisation is the people. The aim of learning and development is to ensure people have the required skills and knowledge to do their jobs. This also ensures that if people […]
Evaluating sales training with Brinkerhoff’s Success Case Method
If you've been involved in commissioning or delivering training programmes, then you will hopefully have thought about their evaluation. Has the training made a difference? Did the participants find it useful? Did they learn anything? What was the return on investment (ROI)? When we evaluate training solutions we have to do more than answer the […]
Talent does not exist
With the European Football Championship going on in France right now, we can see the most talented players Europe has to offer on the pitch. Just like football clubs, companies are also looking for exceptional talent to join their team. But is there actually such a thing as talent? Not according to Anders Ericsson. This […]
Coffee Briefing: Slack, machine learning and why we should think slower
We've spent another week (well, two – everyone needs a holiday) trawling the internet for the most interesting and thought-provoking articles we can find. Let us know what you've been reading recently, and tell us what you think of the pieces we've shared in the comment below. Pull up a chair, here are our picks for […]
Ignore managers at your peril! Your L&D strategy won’t work without them
Managers are a crucial link between the business and employees but how many organisations focus in on them when designing or deploying learning strategies? In this article Stephanie Morgan of Bray Leino Learning looks at how L&D can leverage the relationship with managers to develop more impactful interventions. If you're interested in getting to grips […]
Training duration: what’s the golden ratio?
I've read quite a lot around the subject of attention spans, and the lengths of time given can range from anything from 5 hours to 15 minutes! Have you found a certain amount of time before learners lose focus, and how do you deal with this – do you break sessions into manageable chunks, change […]
Growing business? Grow your people
As a leader, what are you doing to grow your people? No, we’re not talking here about sticking them out in a field and hoping that with the right soil and the right water they will suddenly become more proactive, more innovative or more engaged. Having said that, with the Glastonbury festival on at the time […]
Measuring the impact of training
Develop-meant Training Consultants has worked with The Rickter Company for a number of years. Manager Adrian Pitt talks about his relationship with the organisation and The Rickter Scale® assessment and appraisal tool. My association with “the brilliant blue board” goes back well over a decade. I’m never far from The Rickter Scale®! There’s a demonstration board in […]
Sales Planning Exercises
I am new to sales training and i am looking for training exercises for advanced sales planning, any help would be appreciated. Nicola I am new to sales training and i am looking for training exercises for advanced sales planning, any help would be appreciated.Nicola
Office designs to boost employee engagement
The look and feel of a workplace has a significant impact on an individual’s day and a company as a whole. While designs can (and indeed should) vary from office to office, some features are beneficial to any workplace. Lilli Hender, from workplace experts Office Genie, discusses the key office design elements every business should consider […]
Engaging Participants in Your Training Sessions = Better Mastery
Training sessions can be wonderfully effective, a total flop, or anything in between. The goal, of course, is that participants master the skills and/or concepts being presented, but for this to happen, presenters have to be mindful of their delivery. One of the biggest mistakes that presenters make is that they teach in the way […]
How to get the best value from apprenticeships
Employers increasingly view apprenticeships as a rich source of future talent; securing the right candidate gives an organisation young learners who they can nurture into keen and loyal staff, eager to learn new skills from day one. In fact, the value of an apprentice’s lifetime contribution to a company has been placed at £105,000 by researchers at […]
‘Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right’ – a review of ‘Clarity’ by Jamie Smart
“If a pond is clouded with mud, there’s nothing you can do to make the water clear. But when you allow the mud to settle, it will clear on its own, because clarity is the water’s natural state … Clarity is your mind’s natural state” The introduction to 'Clarity' by Jamie Smart tells me that it ‘is […]
Training and Development strategy for a member association
Hi all, I have taken over a new role in a trade association that represents its members in the automotive industry. Membership of our association is subscription based and as part of that membership this gives access to industry specific training, such as technical knowledge and compliance. Members themselves are small to medium businesses but […]