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How to Build Proficiency

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To communicate effectively you’re going to need Information, which becomes Knowledge, which leads to Experience, which leads to Proficiency, which gives you Wisdom, which gives … Read more

Business Leadership: Modern Day Pioneering

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You don’t have to be a leader to be aware of the pace of change and the challenges of competing and surviving in today’s global … Read more

Management Evolution: Where do you stand?

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You probably know that, if you put a frog in cold water and slowly heat it, it will eventually boil to death. This fact was … Read more

Human Capital Reporting: Breaking the Impasse

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A third of FTSE 100 companies are withholding vital workforce related information from their annual reports, including skills challenges and employee turnover. New research from … Read more

The Paradox of Change

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“It takes a lot of learning to keep something stuck.” That was what Nora Bateson said at a recent development session I attended. Only a … Read more

How the Learning Cycle Fits into Organisational Development

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This is key: while you intuitively understand that your organisation is the aggregate of the people who work in it, you must consciously recognise that every person is an individual. Maximising your organisational learning means maximising individual employee learning. Thus creating a learning organisation, with an effective continuous improvement programme that secures your organisational development, necessitates ensuring you introduce mechanisms that will identify and circumvent the limiting effects of these filters. Your business demands nothing less.

How to Increase Your Return on Training (ROT)

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Now you have an unprecedented means of creating, measuring and managing learning and development within your organisation. It turns training from an expense into a properly evaluated investment with the appropriate return on investment (ROT) that ensures your training is more effective and actually transforms your organisational performance in the way you intend it to.

People as Assets – A Practical Proposition

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The challenge Last week we looked at the statement “people are our greatest asset” and found that it was more than a cliché. The definition … Read more

Management, Manipulation and Employee Engagement

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If you are striving to be a better manager – which, as a self-respecting manager you undoubtedly are – you may find it helpful (even … Read more

Collaboration, Collective Intelligence & Employee Engagement

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Do you ever give collaboration any conscious thought? I hope so, because it is integral to virtually everything you do, and certainly a key aspect … Read more