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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
Managing remote teams 101
Remote working has come to the forefront of managing and leading teams in 2020. For the first time, a lot of managers have had to adapt their way of working to effectively manage their teams from a distance. The decisions and actions made during this time will no doubt affect the way all teams work together and are managed in a post Covid-19 world.