Are you a project manager who feels the need to be in control of every aspect of your project? While being detail-oriented and organised can be beneficial, it's important to recognise when your inner control freak is holding you back. Successful project management [...]
Many people assume that some people are just born presenters. But we’re here to let you into a little secret - ANYONE can be a great presenter. And the best part? It isn’t even hard to do. It just takes a bit of preparation [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
With everything else that has been happening during the pandemic and the lockdowns, the impact on Learning and Development has been interesting. For some organisations this really has not been a focus and their people have just been muddling through, adapting to the [...]
It’s been almost two weeks since we ran our last Festival of Learning webinar, and we are missing them (and everyone who came along) already. What started out as a simple way for our team to share their knowledge and celebrate the power [...]