Off-the-shelf L&D packages are a thing of the past…
By The University of Lincoln The University of Lincoln strives to place its partners’ ethos and training needs at the heart of bespoke solutions. The recently crowned Times and Sunday Times Modern University of the Year 2021 welcomes opportunities to create specialised, industry-endorsed development programmes, which get to the heart of each organisation’s ethos and […]
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT: Profitability Business Simulations – Play. Learn. Impact.
By ProfitAbility “My heart is beating so fast right now”… …Not what you’d expect to hear from a salesperson doing some financial training over Zoom. But this reaction is now common when people experience ProfitAbility’s “serious games”. We’ve spent the pandemic enabling teams to enhance their performance at work whilst restoring the connection and fun of working together. We have perfected the balance between delivering an […]
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. […]
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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 […]
Teamwork – all for one and one for all
By Lynn Smith, Chief People and Operations Officer – MyEva Living on my own, and having spent near on the whole of 2020 working from home with only Zoom, Netflix and Facebook as my way to connect with other humans (unless you count the weekly supermarket shop!), you begin to really understand the power and […]
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: […]
Decision time for Learning & Development?
By Simon Spindler, Director, People & Performance Consulting As we all look beyond Christmas to the promise of vaccine-led emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is easy to think that if we all “just hold on” then things will be fine, if we just wait then things will “sort themselves out” or “get back to […]
