Small business L&D: why learning is the best way to navigate a crisis
The key to small business sustainability is to never stop learning.
Video: Harnessing the power of apprenticeships
Are you missing a trick with your apprenticeship programme?
Why the UK needs to better recognise informal learning achievement
How can we better empower people on their career development journey, no matter the route they wish to take?
Which skills are learners honing during lockdown?
Some workers are spending their time during lockdown developing themselves. But which skills are they focusing on?
How to nurture ‘digital dexterity’ to build skills for the future of work
Three ways to ensure your organisation closes its digital skills gap.
Training pitfalls: why so much leadership development doesn’t work
Current leadership development programmes are failing individuals by focusing on the wrong things.
How to become an award winner in L&D innovation
What are the key ingredients to award-winning L&D innovation?
4 Lessons From Training a 7-Figure Remote Team
Ensuring your team has the right mix of skills to execute your business objectives is one of your key responsibilities as a leader. When the right mix of skills is in place, everyone wins. Your team feels a sense of confidence, efficacy and being valued. Your customers enjoy a quality experience that only is possible […]
A Changing Workplace: Rethinking Talent Management
There’s no doubt about it: our world of work is evolving at breakneck speed. Digital disruption and an explosion of technology is radically transforming the way we work. Talent is still in short supply and roles that didn’t even exist 10 years ago are becoming crucial to fill, yet there is an underlying fear that […]
Employee engagement: three ways to coach a disengaged team
How to transform a lacklustre team into a motivated, high performing one.
Why on-the-job learning may die at the hands of automation
In Gartner’s 2020 trends report on the future of work, challenges such as the unethical use of employee data, the need for radical transparency and the ever-rising demand for remote work – although significant – may be of little surprise among employers. One more unexpected trend, however, is the elimination of on-the-job learning. Gartner’s research […]
The future of L&D: two key drivers to propel the sector forward in 2020 and beyond
L&D needs to radically shift its mindset to survive.
Can Soft Skills Make Businesses More Profitable?
Many international studies on the impact of soft skills in the workplace have found without question that they are skills that employers require across all aspects of business. A good example of this is Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2018 research, which surveyed more than 11,000 business leaders and found that future employees most sought-after […]
How to build resilience with high intensity thought training
Did you know you can use high intensity training for your mind as well as your body?
Neuroscience: why employers should invest in brain training
Brain training has proven to create significant gains for employers, when done in the right way.
The adventure mindset: why adventure should be a key component of your career
Adopting a bit of the Indiana Jones adventurer mentality can actually be good for your professional development.
HOW ARE BUSINESSES RESPONDING TO SKILLS GAPS?
For 12 years, Global Knowledge has been conducting a Skills and Salary survey. Over a decade of insight allows us to see the trends and cycles, helping us predict the training landscape. It’s clear that 2020 is going to be a year where commitment to skills development may separate the wheat from the chaff. Skills […]
Coaching: If you manage people, you’re a coach whether you like it or not!
You may have seen Alister Shepherd’s excellent article on TrainingZone at the end of last year entitled ‘Why coaching is a manager’s job’. Given the time of year, you may even have resolved to be a manager who takes up the coaching challenge or, as an L&D practitioner, have resolved to help your managers accept […]
Sales training games & activities
I’m a sales trainer and I’m looking for activities that I can use when working with clients who need to understand how to Upsell / Cross-sell. FYI, I use this McDonald’s example to explain it: Upsell – Would you like to go large? Cross sell – Would you like fries with that? I don’t mind […]
Holistic learning: how to engage the heart in learning
How engaging learners’ emotions can aid learning transfer.
