Learning & Development: A Chance To Go Deeper
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Read our latest findings in learning & development and Apprenticeship Levy training or articles about the current challenges businesses are facing.
Can Virtual Workshops Train Leaders As Effectively As In-Person Ones?
Leadership has long been recognised as the foundation of organisational success. Research has linked it to improved efficiency, productivity, creativity, agility, innovation, resilience, and a host of equally desirable benefits. In the past, in-person workshops were the gold standard.
Is The Level 3 ILM Apprenticeship Right For Your Employees?
The Level 3 Leadership and Management (ILM) apprenticeship is valued for its progressive approach and rigorous assessment. It’s designed to transform talent into managers who are empowered, self-aware, and driven by emotional intelligence.
Choosing An Apprenticeship Levy Training Provider For Your Business
Apprenticeship levy training funds are available for any UK business to invest in apprenticeship or skills-based training for incoming or existing employees. If you are an apprenticeship levy payer, you can simply use your employer’s Digital Apprenticeship Scheme (DAS) account to allocate levy funds to your chosen training provider.
What Is A Behavioural Assessment And How Does It Benefit My Business?
Assessments can be used to measure many different traits, competencies, and characteristics in your employees, including behaviours, communication styles, emotional intelligence, motivating factors, sales competencies, and more.
How DISC Behavioural Assessments Help Set Company And Team Objectives
One of the most versatile and adaptable behavioural assessment methodologies available to businesses is D.I.S.C., which stands for Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and ‘Conscientiousness’ or ‘Compliance’ (depending on the version used).
What Are Management Development Programmes?
When a business thrives, it is often due to one vital component – good leadership and management. Effective leadership is central to the success of any organisation, but what does it take to cultivate the individuals who can lead your teams, drive performance, and adapt to the challenges of the future?
How Is The Apprenticeship Levy Calculated?
This article will answer the question of how the apprenticeship levy is calculated and will suggest some of the ways you can invest this money to further the skills and competences of your team and drive greater productivity for your business.
What Can The Apprenticeship Levy Be Used For?
The apprenticeship levy is a UK government-led scheme introduced in 2017 to fund apprenticeship training throughout the country.
Presenting with Impact
Think back to school or university and chances are you can remember the dread and anxiety of being asked to present your work infront of your classmates having no real idea of what you’re doing and wishing to just get it done and out of the way. Enter the working world a few years later and long behold, you need to present solutions and ideas to different audiences, whether this be to customers, team members, managers, stakeholders, shareholders etc. and you need to be able to do this both clearly and effectively.
Keeping teams engaged
Do you ever have those days where you’re working on something either inside or outside of work…but it doesn’t feel like work? This is because you’re fully engaged in what you’re working on. This level of engagement towards work is something that every manager or leader dreams of from their teams.
5 ways to streamline for the better
One of the most important skills an effective manager must posses is the ability to manage time efficiently - both their own and their team's - to ensure tasks are completed on time and to the best standard possible.
Managing our mindset
It’s safe to say that 2020 has been a year of reaction. The arrival of Covid-19 has forced us to adapt our way of living, working and thinking and it’s safe to say not everyone has the right idea... if you haven’t figured it out, stockpiling toilet paper isn’t going to help you.
Transitioning to leadership
When transitioning from management into a leadership role, one of the most common challenges faced is shifting your mindset away from approaching situations as a “Manager” and instead, approaching them as a “Leader”.
Marginal gains
“The Sky is the Limit” “Dream Big” - many of us set ourselves such high goals to achieve that it can be overwhelming just thinking about the amount of work and time we need to put in in order to achieve those goals. At work, we can be given huge projects or targets that - on the surface - seem unachievable.
Motivating my team to perform
With lockdown measures easing across the U.K and Europe, more and more people are returning to work after several months of working from home, largely unobserved and potentially - depending on their job role - with a reduced workload.
5 ways for building resilience
As we go through life, we will all experience and overcome our own challenges in both our personal and working lives. The reality is, the world doesn’t care how sensitive or resilient you are. When challenges appear, they are there to test you, otherwise, it wouldn’t be a challenge.
How to positively say “no”
There are some people who just won’t take ‘No’ for an answer. You may be thinking “Good for them, never settle.” but sometimes people make demands that simply cannot be met due to limitations. When this happens and these individuals refuse to accept this, they prevent themselves from moving forward towards some kind of resolution that is positive for them.
Positive mindsets
Things will go wrong. It’s inevitable. No matter how much you prepare for a situation, there’s always a chance a curve-ball could be thrown leaving you feeling uncertain, demoralised, stressed, regretful, the list goes on. A key element that separates those that admit defeat and those that relentlessly persist, is the individual’s mindset during setbacks.
Culture of accountability
At some point, we are all responsible for something. Whether this is paying the bills, looking after a pet, managing a team, or completing a project. Most people enjoy being entrusted with responsibility as this makes them feel valued.