Coaching: how to nurture high performing teams and individuals

Coaching requires the right conditions as well as the right mindset to take effect.
Critical thinking: Six ways to sharpen your analytical skills

Emma Sue Prince outlines the six key areas we need to assess before we can start to work on improving our analytical abilities.
Using the ‘science of coaching’ to improve employee wellbeing and performance

Using a scientific approach to coaching can have tangible benefits ranging from increased productivity to higher employee retention rates
Why do we need an analytics role on the L&D team?

There’s a growing trend among leading brands for bringing analytics roles onto the L&D team. Will your business follow suit?
Why providing leadership opportunities outside the C-suite will reap rewards

Take a lead from Gareth Southgate’s management approach and recognise that teams need multiple leaders and a plethora of leadership skills to succeed.
How to assess the organisational impact of L&D programmes through value profiling

It’s not about measuring the impact on individuals – we should measure the business as a whole.
Assessing the potential impact of your L&D strategy

Ten ways to assess the impact of a learning strategy.
G.R.O.W Your Coaching With A Competency Framework

GROW is a simple but effective framework that helps your coachee understand where their development needs are and the actions, and path, they need to take to reach the their goal. Firstly, what does GROW stand for? G stands for GOAL R is for Reality O is for Options W is for the Will to […]
Tips for consultants: surveying the performance landscape

Looking to boost performance? There are four main elements of the performance landscape to assess to get started.
How to apply inner game coaching principles

The main thing standing in the way of your performance is your mindset. Discover how coaching can help.
Personal development: how to stimulate better business thinking

Your people are talented, smart and have knowledge and expertise that you value – they are your experts in their fields. Unfortunately this can sometimes stop them from being innovative because, as an expert, you are expected to know the answers to any business questions that arise relating to your domain of skill and knowledge. […]
How To Think Outside of The Box

Through the pandemic, we have all had a good moment to stop and think about what we are doing and what is important. As the world reboots and splutters to a start, many are emerging with a keener focus on aligning their doing around sustainable outcomes for work, community, and planet, along with a renewed […]
What Can Employers Do To Ensure Employee Welfare

As we hit the end of the first quarter of 2021, it’s safe to say that the impacts of the pandemic are still continuing to change the corporate landscape as we once knew it. As more businesses and their employees swap the city sky rises for their own home office, many are still adapting to […]
Five ways to embrace the future of workforce development

If L&D doesn’t to take a more business-focused and data-supported approach then it risks irrelevancy.
What’s stopping L&D’s transition to performance consulting?

Have you got the skills and capabilities required to take on this new way of working?
A business case for coaching: how to measure the effectiveness of coaching interventions

How coaching can offer measurable performance improvements.
Why is L&D still not aligning upskilling and reskilling programmes with business needs?

We were warned about the skills crisis back in 2016 and yet it remains a huge issue today. So what has the L&D profession been doing?
How to use self-directed learning when onboarding frontline workers

How L&D managers can empower employees to undertake self-directed learning as part of the onboarding process.
The great LXP heist: rethinking the learning experience

No single learning system is going to solve all your problems. We need a more holistic approach to learner experience.
Your self-aware people are your organisation’s competitive edge

When people understand what makes them truly unique, they can leverage this knowledge to achieve better outcomes.