Develop coaches and measure the return on investment
By Grant Thornton Organisations are increasingly dealing with complex challenges and expecting more from their people. Coaching can unlock potential and create a means for supporting development, improving performance and creating value through innovation. Establishing a coaching culture might mean professionalising your approach to coaching by upskilling or retraining your existing workforce. Developing coaches across the […]
What Boris Can Teach Us About Leadership Communication
By Rob McWilliam, Change Formation One of the leaders we have all become more familiar with in the past year is Boris Johnson. Leaders in any organisation can learn much from the successes and failures of his communications strategy. Government communication during the covid pandemic Back in early 2020, Boris Johnson was promoting a message of hope. […]
How to outsource digital learning and maintain total control
Does your business employ an internal L&D team and still outsource eLearning development? Many forward-thinking businesses fall into the same trap. Handing over entire projects to external agencies might solve immediate capacity and skills gaps, but it offers little control over the strategy and concept; no guarantee of continuity with other training materials; and no […]
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Identifying internal talent to upskill, reskill and retrain using Degree Apprenticeships
Dr Ben Silverstone, Senior Teaching Fellow and Degree Apprenticeship Tutor – WMG, University of Warwick With the rate at which the organisational environment changes in modern business, it can be difficult to maintain a clear view of what a businesses’ capabilities are at any given time. Financial capital, estates and equipment can be straightforward to […]
Five tips to onboard new starters in 2021
By Skeeled The UK started 2021 by going into a third lockdown. Once again people were asked to work from home and for some companies, recruitment may be put on hold. However, with the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out accelerating and offering businesses hope for the future, hiring could soon be back on the agenda. New research […]
Get your team off the bench with Insights Discovery
By Change Formation Sport lays bare the best and worst of teamwork. You can enjoy the fluid motion of a crew rowing in harmony or agonise as defeat looms and your football team turns on each other. A key factor in high-performance sports teams is that each individual has strong self-awareness and an insightful understanding […]
Moving forward with your people – but what to do?
Simon Spindler, Director, People and Performance Consulting With hopeful signs of an end to the crippling constraints of the pandemic, minds are turning towards what sort of ‘normal’ life we will get back to. For businesses, there are specific challenges around how to support and manage their people after the lockdowns and tier systems and their […]
How can managers use coaching at work?
By The Henley Centre for Coaching Almost every manager is now expected to be able to use coaching as part of their management toolkit. But is coaching the be-all and end-all of management? Is coaching the only management skill a good manager needs? In this guide we argue that the best managers have a wide […]
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT: Amphigean manager training
Manager training is being transformed. Too often new Managers are onboarded using long, face-to-face workshops, held during their first few months in the role. Such workshops may include information on policies and procedures covering topics such as the organisation, Health and Safety, Attendance, Performance, Pay, Wellbeing, Diversity & Inclusion, Equality, and Systems. This approach presents a number of ongoing challenges: […]