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I have worked in the Military as what they call a HR Administrator for approx. 10 years and I have recently taken the plunge and left a very well paid, stable job in the Army.  I have gone over to the Dark Side, joined the ranks of Civvy Street!  Thi

Hi All,

I just wanted to share my blog with you on game based learning and some of the games I have made for my courses.

When I joined my company, it seemed like the more information that we could cram on a slide the better. One part of a course had

Today our environment is degrading rapidly and profusely due to urbanization, industrialization, agriculture and the extensive use of resources. Water resources like the rivers and ground water are polluted to a large extent mainly because of sewage

When people mention change in an organisation, my thoughts automatically turn to ones of restructure, redundancies, re-grading and how we  in HR are going to support colleagues affected by it. I never think to apply the supporting change principles a

I'd like to tell you about a simple tool/technique that was introduced to me at the end of my CIPD Level 3 in Learning & Development Practice qualification by our facilitator, Howard Rose of DPG Plc.

I'm compelled to write about this as I think it a v

Well, I survived my first blogging experience! A massive thank you to all who read and contributed to the ‘So I’m Part of the Dumbest Generation?’ discussion, I really appreciate your input. There were some great and incredibly thought-provoking po

Ok, I am going to be brutally honest now - objectives are not sexy!

They are however: essential, important, brilliant to have (when written well) and kind of ..... boring .... dare I say it?

One of my biggest light bulb moments and one of my coaching c

Thought I would update my blog on the journey of installing our new system.  We are still at the contracting side, however, even then there seems to be a need for a keen eye for detail.  The company we are using have kindly sent us their contract for

Hi Everyone

I'm currently reviewing our probationary periods - they are 3 months for what are considered 'standard' staff (not my view) and 6 months for those in more 'complex' roles.  Managers of staff in 'standard' roles want to be able to change th

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This year’s HRD exhibition at Olympia was run over the 24-25^th April and we sent along Paul and Hannah to experience all that it had to offer.  A key theme at the exhibition was that Leadership and Development was high on the agenda and the va

Post completing my CIPD in L&D with DPG I was successful in joining a growing L&D company called Catseye Development. Catseye is an innovative and fresh L&D company working with Blue Chip companies and other great businesses. Catseye is looking to ex

I was attending a fantastic training event last week, the Bronze level of Kirkpatrick four levels evaluation certificate program. I’m going to try to explain the model taught and (of course) used in class with an example a little bit more close to he

So often training departments are either deemed as ineffective or their effectiveness is completely unknown because of lack of measurement. Training isn’t as simple to measure as other functions such as sales where leads and bottom line sales can eas

I have recently been participating in a discussion on LinkedIn about "What makes a great trainer" in the "How to Market Training" group and this has sparked off a great debate.

While some people mention empathy , passion and being learner focused, thi

Mini-rant...my apologies!  I just need to get this out of my system.  

I don't even work in HR yet and I'm getting so sick of the negative sarcastic comments being thrown at me about how HR just talk BS and are 'the enemy'.  Instead of seeing them as

Another new experience under the belt. This time a short talk at the PPMA conference (not the Processing and Packaging Machinery Association) rather the Public Sector People Manager’s conference – you can check the #ppmahr13 hashtag for tweets from t

Thought I would add to my blog this evening.  I have recently attended workshop 5 preparing for success and there is alot to do.  However, with the help of Phil, our facilitator he has broken down the tasks into nice bite size chunks.  Actually one o

Our recent blog ‘What would be the one piece of advice you would give to yourself when you were 20 which you wish you had received’ looked at a LinkedIn discussion we started that recorded some fantastic answers. Another discussion we started called

Have you ever spent ages deliberating with yourself over even relatively small decisions without really knowing why? Have you gone over it again and again in your head before eventually deciding it's better to do nothing at all? The internal battli

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