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How Millennials are driving for improved productivity in the workplace through automation

Unlike previous generations, Millennials remain relatively unphased by the prospect of automation. They understand that the systems will not take over their jobs but act more as a support which could ultimately provide them with opportunities to advance their career and improve their organisation.  With Millennials representing up to 75% of the workforce by 2025, organisations […]

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What challenges do banks currently face when it comes to workplace training?

Training is constantly evolving across all sectors, with various challenges facing those who develop the content and objectives of the course as well as the teacher. The banking sector, as one of the most highly regulated industries, must ensure that training and development for their employees and graduate hires are effective and powerful, ensuring a

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How does leadership training look to change the workplace in 2024?

In 2024, the focus for the c-suite and board looks to turn more attention to their people strategies. Businesses are now noticing that their leadership strategy may not be currently benefiting them in a way which is driving company development and success. With talent retention and the development and training of the next generation currently

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How can workplace leadership boost employee morale and performance?

Morale is at the core of every well-functioning workplace, with employee happiness linked to performance, which in turn is driven by effective workplace leadership. A good leader should be versed in ways to maintain and build a healthy workplace culture and strive to make ongoing improvements to this in order to ensure the best environment

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Is graduate training supporting the declining levels of unemployed graduates?

In 2017, the rates of unemployment within the graduate community reached its lowest since 1989. The graduate jobs market has since been described as ‘in a robust situation’, regardless of the recent political and economic shocks. The changes in graduate unemployment levels may be due to a number of factors, but graduate training could be

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E-learning methods to improve workplace training programmes

E-learning is a perfect method for reaching your varied workforce, ensuring everyone can access digital training materials. Initially, people believed e-learning would be ineffective as it would remove the human element of learning, however, as time has progressed, technology has developed meaning transforming it into a valuable learning resource. What is e-learning? E-learning refers to

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What is virtual learning?

Put simply, virtual learning or a virtual learning environment (VLE) is an experience that allows individuals to build knowledge using digital mediums, such as computers, phones, tablets, or anything else. Virtual learning is commonly used to regularly train and track the progress of the workforce with ease. It also allows workers to improve at their

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How utilising information results in better commercial decision making

Ensuring that employees are focusing on the most important information during workplace training can improve productivity. With hundreds of hours of video footage being added to YouTube each minute, and with even more information being generated within the previous two years than in the complete history of mankind, you don’t have to search for very

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How your workplace will benefit from hiring millennials

Millennials are the future of the workplace and providing them with effective workplace training is a great way to help with their development. Although it can seem like much more effort dedicating the time to construct an effective millennials training programme as opposed to hiring someone from an older generation with more experience, millennials have

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Attracting and retaining new talent and opportunities in 2024

The future of your company depends on who is going to be your future C-suite employees. So attracting new talent to your business is imperative to later success. Additionally, retaining those new employees holds great importance. The Harvard Business review found that nearly “33% of new hires look for a new job within their first

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