Learning & Development: A Chance To Go Deeper
Real and relevant experience is key to understanding the particular context a business operates in.
Read our latest findings in learning & development and Apprenticeship Levy training or articles about the current challenges businesses are facing.
Why Training Is Essential For Developing High-Performing Teams
Developing high-performing teams can help you achieve remarkable results. From turning around projects on time and on budget to generating ground-breaking innovations, teams can be the powerhouse that fills your organisation with energy and enthusiasm.
DISC Workshops: How Do They Facilitate Teamwork?
Organisational efficiency and productivity rely upon communication. However, with so many different communicational styles swirling around the workplace, finding meaning among the chaos can be a challenge.
How ‘Know Yourself’ Workshops Help Improve Communication Skills
Without communication, workplaces can become spaces of frustrating inefficiencies. Projects that have the capacity to fly can fall flat, great ideas can become lost in the mess, and organisational strategy can crumble.
ILM Level 3 Course Completed: What’s Next?
The Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) courses have long been recognised as a pathway to success. Aimed at ambitious and talented future leaders, they support career development by implementing key theories, skills, and techniques that underpin crucial aspects such as communication, critical thinking, and situational awareness
How ‘Know Yourself’ Workshops Help Managers & Teams Collaborate Better
Effective collaboration, innovation, and strong leadership are crucial for organisational success. The foundation for these outcomes lies within understanding ourselves and those we work with.
5 Mistakes To Avoid When Transitioning Employees To Management
It is the dream of many employees to transition to management. Equally, companies can reap generous benefits from keeping knowledge inside the organisational walls. However, transitioning from employee to manager is often a culture shock.
How To Access Your Levy Funds And Avoid Losing Them
Levy funds are central to the apprenticeship system in the UK. 2% of the largest employers fund the levy, which is then used to support companies throughout the country. The apprenticeship Levy funds last for two years and can either be used by your own business or by a smaller company.
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.
3 Unique Features of Our Apprenticeships
When we first started looking into offering Apprenticeships as part of our services, we looked at what other providers were doing and noticed a few things that made us scratch our heads…
So with this in mind, we discussed it with our partners in Kendal College to include 3 key features of our Apprenticeships that separate us from the rest…
How Non-Levy Payers can thrive with the Apprenticeship Levy
To be a levy payer, your organisation must have an annual payroll exceeding £3 million per year. If you do not meet this requirement, whilst you may not be a levy payer, you can still utilise the apprenticeship to upskill your people.
In the last few years, almost £3.5 billion of unused levy was reclaimed by the Exchequer. So why not utilise the funding where others are not?
L&D Budgets vs. The Apprenticeship Levy
Every year we face the upward battle as L&D budgets become more limited as businesses look to reduce costs and allocate resources to other aspects of the business. The reality is that people will always need training as they advance their careers and are promoted into management and leadership positions.
To conserve budgets, more and more businesses are looking to offset their L&D costs by utilising the apprenticeship levy.
5 Myths about the Apprenticeship Levy
In the last few years, an estimated £3.5 billion of unused levy has been returned to the Exchequer.
This is money paid by UK businesses to upskill their people that has simply been lost to - what we believe - is a lack of understanding and confusion of what the levy is and how it can be used.
As a provider of ILM Level 3 & 5 Apprenticeships, let’s debunk a few myths right now…