L&D news round-up: 30 April
News time, newshounds. It’s skills-heavy and General Election-lite, just the way we like it. It’s crunch time for the UK’s skills shortage: Our politicians must wake up – City A.M. The top 14 skills in the red hot market for marketing jobs – Venture Beat How Emotional Intelligence Became a Key Leadership Skill – HBR Blogs 2 Perspectives From […]
Leadership Styles…Which is your your style?
As we so often look to find ideas and feedback on leadership styles, do you have a a favoured approach for leading and inspiring your team? Certainly the type personalities that make up your team and the specific goal in mind may possibly determine your style? Here is an initial list of leadership styles that […]
The TrainingZone podcast: April 2015
This month it’s all about the big LinkedIn news, plus Jon and Kate discuss happy sheets, video skills and Colin Steed, CEO of the learning and Performance Institute, is the guest interviewee. Subscribe free Please ensure that you have iTunes installed before subscribing. This month it’s all about the big LinkedIn news, plus Jon and […]
L&D news round-up: 23 April
It’s the news. Read on for our stories of the week. The innovators: matching autistic people with jobs needing special skills – The Guardian Three Tests of Leadership in the New Disengagement Economy – The Huffington Post Talent is HR’s top priority but function needs to clarify its purpose, experts say – CIPD blogs Female leadership, entrepreneurship and […]
Why Opinions Matter
I recently wrote to my MP. When I say recently, it was about six months ago, but the wheels of government move very slowly and I’ve only just received a response. To be honest, I’d forgotten all about it. The topic of my letter was the increasing number of faith schools in the UK. I […]
L&D news round-up: 2 April
That’s right – it’s our news round-up, including a rather ‘meta’ story from the FT. Enjoy. Talent Analytics: Predicting HR’s Way Out Of The Fog – Forbes The Royal Navy style of leadership – City AM How play-based learning can give young children skills for life – TES Connect Transformational leadership: sustainable change for a better organisation – Bangkok Post […]
The TrainingZone podcast: March 2015
This month Jon and Kate solve the digital skills crisis, the NHS tech problem and even have a crack at Fermat’s Last Theorem they’re feeling so confident. Sue Husband drops in to talk about National Apprenticeship Week. Links to the stories: Corporate skills gap poll question, Fiona Quigley’s Twitter CPD slideshare, NHS digital skills, STEM […]
Digital skills could make or break the UK
A digital skills shortage, you say? Babawande Sheba has a few ideas to plug that gap. Last month the Lords Digital Skills Committee released a report looking at the digital skills crisis in the UK. I say crisis, because the report found that the UK is currently failing to address its digital skills shortage. This […]
How to combat the digital skills shortage
A new report by Tech City has found that Britain's digital businesses are booming. In 2014 1.6m people were employed in the sector and 45k digital jobs were advertised. However, despite these promising statistics there is a distinct lack of skilled workers in the industry. Here, Brian Matthews discusses his thoughts on the shortage. The UK’s digital […]
L&D news round-up: 5 March
Yes – it’s Thursday once again. That means it’s news round-up time. We had to finish with THAT nature story… Swings and roundabouts for skills funding – BBC News 3 Books Every Leader Should Read to Be Successful – Time The Difference Between Coaching Rookies and Veterans – Harvard Business Review UK diplomats have ‘alarming shortfall’ in language […]
Mind the skills gap – whose responsibility is it?
Sarah Willis details some practical ways to close the UK's skills gap. In recent years there have been consistent complaints from employers that young people don't possess the skills they need. Amidst a Europe-wide crisis in youth unemployment, a McKinsey report found 27% of entry-level jobs vacant because employers in eight major European economies couldn't […]
L&D news round-up: 26 February
News time! Leadership, skills and the colonisation of Mars all get a look-in. Enjoy. How to solve the UK’s skills shortage – The Telegraph With Big Data, HR Departments Too Often Get Short Shrift -Wall Street Journal Survey Examines, What Do Employees Think About Leadership Ethics? – Forbes Flexibility comes with pop-up leadership – The National Google tapping into UK […]
L&D news round-up: 5 Feb
Yes you guessed it – news time. Heavy on the skills news, and the um, octopus news this week. Skills gap must be closed before it becomes a full-blown crisis – Gazette Live There it is again. Doctors urge caution over proposals to shorten training time – The Guardian How many more ‘efficiency savings’ can be made? […]
L&D news round-up: 22 Jan
Once again – it’s this week’s news, starting off with a great story for kids who love their sleep. Napping may help infants’ learning skills – Medical News Today Apple ‘working on stylus for iPad Pro’ – The Telegraph Four people-leadership resolutions that will change your business in 2015 – Nation Multimedia 17 Great HR Resources for Entrepreneurs – […]
L&D news round-up: 8 Jan
It’s the first news round-up of a new year! We’ve got stories on skills, leadership and, um, Lego. A new year’s resolution for the NHS: let’s deliver a new leadership approach – The Guardian In anticipation of Sir Stuart Rose’s report, The Guardian calls for leadership reform. These Are the Skills You Need if You Want […]
L&D news round-up: 11 Dec
A week off last week because of Online Educa, but it’s back! Yes – it’s news round-up time. Ed Vaizey: Why we must not underestimate the importance of digital skills – City AM Do you code? Maybe you should give it a whirl. Can better training and a clear career pathway raise the profile of care […]
L&D news round-up: 20 Nov
News time. A fine selection of L&D stories from all round the world, covering leadership, skills, technology and more. Why Bad People Make The Best Leaders – Forbes Forbes know how to write a good headline. Why I decided to join the NHS graduate training scheme – The Guardian The pension? (kidding) UK firms consider hiring ex-hackers to […]
I’m not a writer, but…
You write at work every single day, but that doesn’t mean you necessarily know how to get the best from your words, says Teresa Ewington. Are you a writer? Chances are, you’ve answered ‘no’. But if I asked you if you write emails, training material, proposals, presentations, reports, policies, manuals or anything similar – you’ll say yes. In […]
Insight: Lack of skills hindering Big Data uptake
A new survey has identified resourcing issues as the top barrier preventing businesses from successfully managing and exploiting the possibilities opened up to them by Big Data solutions. The research, carried out in Spring 2014 and sponsored by Talend, found that nearly two out of every five (39%) organisations cited a lack of skills or […]
L&D news round-up: 31 October
Yes – it’s news time. Here are a few good L&D stories and other stuff that has piques TZ’s interest over the last few days – enjoy. Elon Musk: artificial intelligence is our biggest existential threat – The Guardian The man with the best name in the world of innovation has a word about AI. Businesses […]