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  No employee left behind

  Published May 16, 2012 - No Comments

  Enabling employees to succeed in a fast-changing business environment should be central to every organization’s strategy.  After all, when employees are properly equipped with the right set of skills, they’re best positioned to add maximum value to both the organization and its custom ...

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  Tackling the skills crisis

  Published May 15, 2012 - No Comments

  Over recent weeks, government advisors and industry leaders have been lining up to highlight the skills problem in the UK workforce. For example, this is what John Longworth, director general of the British Chamber of Commerce, had to say: “Companies need employees with the right mix of ...

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  I’d rather go to the dentist than do a performance review

  Published May 14, 2012 - No Comments

  As soon as I bit that piece of candy I knew it was trouble.  Yes, I chipped a tooth and that meant a trip to the dentist.  The process of getting a crown wasn’t that bad though.  Then again, I used noise cancellation headphones to drown out the sound of the drill.  I also asked [...]

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  The sound of music in social care

  Published May 11, 2012 - No Comments

  Barchester Healthcare are one of our biggest clients in the social care sector in the UK. Last month, I had the pleasure of being invited to attend a musicality workshop run by Stuart Wood from Nordoff-Robbins  who is the Head Music Therapist for the Barchester Nordoff Robbins Initiative ...

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  Cultivate a cooperative rather than competitive advantage

  Published May 10, 2012 - No Comments

  In a period of market consolidation it’s time to focus on your customers, not your competitors. No observer could have failed to notice the scale of consolidation underway in the training and elearning industry during 2011. We saw Lumesse acquire Edvantage and Taleo take over learn.c ...

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  The art of conversation

  Published May 9, 2012 - No Comments

  If your schedule is anything like mine, it’s full of meetings.  We take steps in our office to limit the time we spend in meetings, giving us all a chance to focus on our work.  So this means the meetings we do have are fairly important – talking to prospective clients, making pr ...

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  Fortune favours the brave (if the brave are smart enough)

  Published May 8, 2012 - One Comment

  The recent news that Britain is officially back in recession was disappointing and ran counter to the slight rise in confidence which some sectors had experienced. Whilst headline closures on the high street were a warning, many had assumed that green shoots elsewhere would make up the dif ...

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  Lost in translation

  Published May 7, 2012 - No Comments

  The scenario is played out in office after office every day: A manager bats off a series of emails or instant messages to an employee whose cubicle is a 30-second or less walk away. It may save time typing an email rather than walking over to a cubicle and speaking in person, but thereR ...

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