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 […]
Leadership for a change
By Professor David Pendleton, Program Director for High Performance Leadership (Live-online) Whenever I doubt the pace at which the world is changing, I remind myself that, in my lifetime, the world has entered the space age, personal computers were created, the internet and world wide web were created, social media have become commonplace, mobile phones were […]
Get a handle on delegation: Changing your perspective might yield better outcomes
By Denise Fryer, Co-Programme Director, Developing Management Practice, Henley Business School The attitude that: ‘It’ll take longer to explain to someone else how to do it, so it’s easier if I just do it myself,’ is not one that is generally productive in today’s collaborative business contexts. Two of the key aspects you might consider […]
Reskilling and training: The key to helping businesses recover
By Sue Parr (pictured), Director of Apprenticeships and Part-time Programmes – WMG, University of Warwick It is clear that the economic situation worldwide is unprecedentedly challenging and the recently released UK figures for June to August show a downward trajectory that reveals unemployment rates of 4.5%. Many companies have previously spent a lot of time […]
5 Minutes With… Candlefox’s Sarah-Jane McQueen
In the latest instalment of our HR industry executive interview series, we spoke to Sarah-Jane McQueen, General Manager at Candlefox, about the company, the impact of COVID-19 on the training sector, industry opportunities and the impact of new technology… Tell us about your company, products and services. CoursesOnline Workforce Training is a recent addition to […]
