Workplace learning

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Driving a manufacturing business through effective leadership skills

Hesitancy can hold a business back, and in manufacturing, the majority of bosses in the industry are aware of the importance of leadership but still sometimes struggle to provide an effective platform to nurture it. The importance of successfully managing manufacturing departments and their teams is well known among senior teams and boards, however many […]

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How are the younger generations creating meaningful change in the workplace?

As businesses evolve with time, change has never been so rapid and necessary as now, with the entrance of Generation Z into the workforce, joining their predecessor’s Millennials. Millennials are already recognised as making a big splash and inciting change for the betterment of themselves, their peers and the overall workplace. From more widespread flexible

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Tackling the UK’s problem in workplace leadership

A recent study revealed that 40% of UK workers would describe themselves as dissatisfied with the quality of the leadership within their workplace. Nearly 15% of employees also expressed concern that their manager ‘hardly’ knows them as a person. Employees also expressed unhappiness with their workplace for much deeper and concerning reasons, which include 44%

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How can your employees improve their commercial awareness every day?

Commercial awareness is a key skill that is highly sought after by employers. It revolves around the fundamental understanding of the company and relevant industry or sector from the employee. Employees should have an assured knowledge of the company they work for, including a broader knowledge about the industry that the company is situated in,

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Which HR trends are up-and-coming in 2024?

HR is crucial to the success of any business with employees proving to be one of the highest costs to a company, and it is important to make sure recruitment, retention, development and employee well-being strategies are airtight. From ensuring workplace training which regularly develops skills and experiential training that puts your employees in a

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How does poor workplace training affect your business and workforce?

It’s a well-known fact that your workforce will perform their best when they are properly trained and motived. When everyone understands their duties and how to effectively carry these out, workforce morale is typically much higher. It is important for employers to understand the outcome if their company fails to organise onsite training, experiential methods

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Optimising the workplace

Employee wellbeing is a hot topic in the workplace and in 2017, the UK saw nearly half of businesses implement a strategy which aimed to specifically improve the overall wellbeing of their staff. Some of the effective strategies set out by business leaders included innovative and creative ways to ensure mental health is considered and

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How can your business overcome common challenges in retail banking training?

Retail banking is changing to offer customers improved security and increased services which will make their money management overall more efficient. There is an increased need to change how the banks’ staff operate and increase the knowledge that they hold, to boost these capabilities and ensure that measures are being taken to protect assets. Training

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Managing the multi-generational workplace

It is anticipated that by the year 2020, there could be up to five different generations in the workforce. With each different generation comes a completely new outlook on work ethics, morals, and methods of communicating. Their differing ways of working stem from fundamentally different life experiences and understanding of the world. Values evolve as

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How is technology shaping the future of employee engagement and training?

Technology has changed the way we operate our businesses and, as a result, the way we manage our employees has evolved. Organisations can now maximise their employee engagement through implementing digitation across their practices and ensure that employees are spending their time productively through automated systems. Technology does not need to be complicated, however, it can

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