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This question has been around forever but as the environment in which managers o

A creative guide to designing and delivering faster, more effective training programs.

A must read book for anyone that is involved in designing and/or delivering any learning of any kind and want to make the session as effective as possible for the l

Imagine the scene; you are coming to the end of a two-day training course that has been successful. You are completing your action plan, feeling motivated about what you are going to do when back at work, how you are going to do it and you can even p

Beliefs are powerful mental filters that can have a significant effect on how you make sense of the world, how you behave, how you feel and how you communicate. Beliefs can be the difference between failure and success, happiness and unhappiness, bet

Following on from our article about ‘Outsourcing your Weaknesses’, I’d like to get your attention and focus on the importance of building on your strengths.

Throughout all ages, there has always been a need to develop those areas that you are good at.

Chatting about a new business venture with a friend of mine the other night we were talking about our own long term development.   We both share similar ideals and an internal drive to continually learn and develop our skills.   We have big plans for

I used to be an IT trainer and I was very good(so I thought) at telling people what to do and how to do it (in the IT arena that is). Whilst I was training with IBM, I was sent on a number of training courses and one of them was a week long facilitat

My daughter has just started working for BT in Warrington and on her first day she rang me to tell me all about her new group and what they had been up to.

They had spent the day after introductions designing their own Facebook page on the Intranet:

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One of the worst academic crimes is plagiarism. This is the presentation of another person’s work as if it were your own, without acknowledgement of where it has come from. It’s important not to plagiarise because not only is it considered a form o

The text to support the CIPD’s Certificate in Learning and Development Practice and for anyone interested in learning more about Learning and Development.

 “If you buy one text for the CIPD’s Certificate in Learing and Development Practice make sure i

We’ve noticed an increase in demand from our clients to organise In-house or Onsite training in a wide range of topics including Management Programmes, Sales Training, Health & Safety and more so we thought we’d highlight some of the advantages and b

I saw Alan Austin-Smith speak at the Learning & Skills exhibition a few months back and he was there to talk about his ‘Fantastic Revolution’. It was the second time that I’ve seen Alan speak and I suppose I was drawn in by the fact that I know Alan

So I made my way down to Bristol yesterday all hyped up and ready to dazzle the exhibitors at the Bristol Expo with my HR Administration brilliance only to find when I got there that it was predominantly aimed at the IT/Engineering mob!

Disappointed a

Being new to the HR community, I was initially concerned that my coursework would be lacking essential insight and knowledge and that I would struggle to meet the word count requirements. Oh how wrong I was!

Upon completing my first SYK pack, imagine

Well its April already! Have to say, it feels like we are still in January the way the weather is going:(.  Here's hoping for a flaming hot Summer:).

Since January, I have had a growing sense of achievement.  One of my main tasks at work was to source

This is the third part in a three blog series by our management & leadership specialist David McIntosh focusing on management competence. 

This blog follows on from ‘Are Managers Born or Made?’ and ‘Measuring Management Competence’. In the first two

Another first for DPG and Swinton Insurance.  Last December 2011, we embarked on a joint approach to a CIPD Certificate in Learning and Development Practice Programme. This approach was to run an ”in house” programme for a group of Swinton’s trainers

This is the second of a three blog series by our management & leadership specialist David McIntosh focusing on management competence.

In the first blog I drew the conclusion that managers need to be developed to excel in the ever more complex world