Creating a Value Proposition is elementary business practice. Organisations need to understand why their offering is important to their customers, and define why customers should choose them over anyone else. A VP workshop is an exercise almost all businesses would have participated in [...]
It’s an unfortunate truth, but in many organisations L&D and HR often don’t work well together. Despite the fact that the two functions are traditionally working towards the same goal, there remains a great deal of discord between the two. This may be [...]
Innovation is key to business success, but how can organisations promote and stimulate innovation in their workforce? We explore some practical tips on how the environment, who’s in the room, and what’s being discussed can boost innovation. Innovation; it’s the driving force behind [...]
When considering how to help unify a team facing significant challenges, team building events are often considered as a vital tool to help. However we discuss the idea that in such cases team building events are not as effective as more in depth [...]
It doesn’t matter how good (or bad) your L&D offering is, if nobody knows it’s there, then it might as well not exist. As learning and development has evolved in its capacity and influence within organisations, the truth is that the marketing side [...]
It’s typically after something goes wrong that someone will employ the assistance of a coach. In the context of work it may come after a negative appraisal, being passed over for promotion, or feedback from a peer. But whatever the reason, coaching is [...]
Unlike career routes available in the past, very few people these days will follow a linear career path – it’s no longer about moving up, but moving around. But if people want to be able to proactively manage their career, and move around [...]
With employees taking advantage of more fluid careers, organisations need to have plans in place to address the constant flux occurring within the workplace. One approach is ‘skills assurance’, but what is skills assurance, why is it important and how can businesses achieve [...]
What is action learning, why does it work and how can it be used effectively as a professional development tool? We all know that learning is most valuable when we can put it into practice; just ask anyone who’s done algebra at school [...]
What happens after employees attend a learning intervention? How is this then translated back into the workplace? In most companies it’s not; we consider how to keep the learning alive after a programme, and why that’s often the most important part of the [...]