Three ways to make your presentations more impactful
Deliver presentations that pack a punch using the below three pieces of advice. The way the world communicates is rapidly changing. Modern technology provides constant access to quick and simple snippets of information, on constantly updated news streams. The days of spending hours on the phone to friends, updating them with news are gone. Instead, notifications […]
Don’t let irregular training drive staff from your business
We all know the whole culture surrounding the workplace and the idea of jobs in general is changing: people are working remotely and for many different companies in their lifetime. There isn’t the old sense of long-term ‘job loyalty’ anymore. A UK worker will now change employer every five years on average, with millennials more […]
The learning trend of 2018: always-on learning
Your career is probably going through a lot more change compared to your parents’ careers. The same goes for your skills. Times change, and for companies this means that real time and always-on learning is becoming the new standard. If employees are not able to continuously learn new, more general skills, wherever and whenever they […]
Authenticity: How to be genuine when you present
How authentic are you to your audiences? Tom Bird & Jeremy Cassell, authors of The Leader’s Guide to Presenting, explore… Critical to your success as a presenter is recognising that your audience will be judging you from the moment you stand in front of them. They cannot help it and they do not consciously know they […]
How to create a strategic workforce plan that can improve job quality
The CIPD recently released findings from its UK working lives survey and identified the key challenges for two main groups in the market: those at the lower levels who are far less likely to have access to skills and training, and those in middle management who feel significantly squeezed by their workload. We often read […]
The Apprenticeship Levy: a radical reform of the UK skills map
Think of it as a skills levy, not an Apprenticeship Levy, argues Kirstie Donnelly MBE, Managing Director of City & Guilds Group. There’s no beating about the bush. To say that apprenticeships have had a rough ride over the past twelve months is nothing short of an understatement. But the there is no doubt that they […]
How can we train our staff when the skills they need are changing all the time?
How can HR departments tackle evolving skillsets through new ways of training? asks Darren Shimkus, vice president and general manager of Udemy for Business. The UK is currently experiencing a gap in digital skills, which has become a real concern for the wellbeing of our economy. Companies are increasingly finding it more difficult to recruit […]
How to steer your business towards a learning culture
Looking to nurture a learning culture among your employees? Rajeeb Dey, CEO of Learnerbly, offers a few key strategies to steer your business in the right direction. This is not the first nor the last time you’ll hear me talking about continuous learning. We should all know by now that the key to preparing ourselves […]
Training of day trading and how to get started
Are you looking forward to get into day trading? Then you are about to make one of the best decisions in your life. Day trading can deliver a bunch of impressive benefits to you in the long run. You will also love the returns that you will get the chance to experience while you are […]
How to measure communication skills online?
“Know thyself!” With this ancient Greek saying philosophers, authors and artists have been emphasizing the importance of self-knowledge for ages. Among them Socrates, Plato (in their dialogues) and, a little more recently, The Wachowski’s (in “The Matrix”). Knowing what your strengths are provides you with self-confidence and enables you to do even more with the […]
Best ways to grow your business
If your business is not doing well or if you are concerned about the development of your business in future, you will have to come up with an effective strategy to take it to the next level. That’s where you should follow a systematic approach. Starting up a business could be a great challenge. When […]
Why you need to create a personal brand to conquer L&D skills
There has been a lot of pressure on the modern L&D leader in the past 18 months to build their skills and capabilities, moving from tactical to strategic and aligning learning to business objectives. However, despite the influx of discussion around this, and the industry acceptance to head in this direction, the reality is that […]
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 […]
How to Improve Your Active Listening: Follow These
Communication skills play a crucial role in the social life of a person. They allow not only exchanging records but also to analyze it, giving a subjective or objective assessment. The method of active listening is one of the complex communicative skills. It makes possible the semantic perception of what the interlocutor said. What […]
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 […]
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 […]
Best Ways to Drive Results with Customer Training
In today’s modern and highly competitive business environment, customer satisfaction is at the heart of business growth. Companies, old and new, continuously research on and adopt new business strategies to edge out the competition. One of ways through which they do this is by customer training, knowing that the customer is an important part in […]
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 […]
Data literacy: how can organisations improve this skill in 2018?
Data and analytics are key to every organisation, enabling us to analyse question after question to find new insights and identify the most critical obstacles to overcome when it comes to business. Considering the complexity and scope of today’s data, as well as the speed of business today, old-school analytics methods and models are insufficient. […]
Reasoned judgements: 5 steps to help avoid bad decision making
In all walks of life, whether it be business, politics, at home or in our social circles, we instinctively look to our leaders and role models to make important decisions. Experience and industry knowledge are undoubtedly useful resources that we can use to guide us through the process. But it can be easy to forget […]