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TrainingZONE Newswire - Issue 351
29 March 2005
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1. Feature: The Value of Accreditation
2. Parkin Space: Selling Skills for All
3. Third of Employers Don't Train Staff
4. The Training Department as Investment Centre
5. White Paper Pledges to Close Skills Gap
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Editor's note
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The TrainingZONE newswire is a day later this week due to the
Easter bank holiday but it's still choc-full (sorry!) of
features. My pick of the week is Larry Murphy's feature
exploring the value of accrediting in-house courses and
trainers. Drawing on his own experience at Centrica, Larry
explains that this value goes beyond benchmarking and providing
quality assurance, it can also help demonstrate the benefits of the
training department to the organisation. In this age of outsourcing,
Larry's article is one not to miss.
Kind regards
Claire Savage
Editor, TrainingZONE
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Feature: The Value of Accreditation
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Larry Murphy explores the benefits of accreditation, including
quality, consistency and the ability to demonstrate the training
department's value to the wider organisation.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/138937/680/608/626
Parkin Space: Selling Skills for All
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"Do we really want people in our organisations who are more
persuasive, who listen to our situation, who probe to understand
where we are coming from?" Godfrey Parkin praises the art of
sales.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/138913/680/608/626
The Training Department as Investment Centre
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Andrew Mayo explains the danger of trying to run a training
department as a "profit centre".
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/138823/680/608/626
Third of Employers Don't Train Staff
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A study of 13,000 UK companies finds that while two-thirds of
employers consider skills development to be a high priority
within their organisations one-third do not provide any formal
training for their staff.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/138814/680/608/626
White Paper Pledges to Close Skills Gap
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The government sets out the proposals it believes will help
England become "a high skills, high value-added economy".
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/138846/680/608/626
LSC Learns Lessons from ETPs
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The Learning and Skills Council evaluates Employer Training
Pilots as the government announces its plans for a new National
Employer Training Programme.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/138923/680/608/626
Mentoring Development Group - Coaching and Mentoring Conference
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Interest in coaching and mentoring is a rapidly growing
phenomenon, accompanied by an explosion in the range and types
of coaching and mentoring available. Is this valuable diversity,
or just befuddling complexity? A conference in April will offer
practical advice on effectively managing this complexity at a
personal and organisational level.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/adredirect/mdg2.html
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Any Answers
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Catch-up with the latest questions being asked by the
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assessments and evaluation.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/138932/728/608/626
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into her insurance company.
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