BUSINESSES need to take a more targeted approach to e-learning, according to an industry round table. As the e-learning market becomes saturated with mobile applications, businesses need to provide employees with more focused learning opportunities to see greater benefits.
THIS summer office workers have spent more than eight hours researching and booking holidays at their desks – costing UK businesses up to £3billion. A new study by employment law specialists ELAS revealed that the average British worker spends as much as 8hrs 24mins at their office computer researching and booking their next holiday.
BEACON Financial Limited have announced the creation of its very first management team. The team, which will be involved in the day to day running of the company and its strategic future, consists of three members of staff – Pippa Ellis, an account manager, who is the usual contact point for many of his clients; [...]
INDESIT Company’s UK HR team is celebrating after a successful night at HR Magazine‘s prestigious HR Excellence Awards held on 29 June in London. The team beat off stiff competition to pick up the ‘Best Talent Management’ award for its innovative ‘Thinking for Business Success’ (TFBS) programme, which delivered tangible results and benefits for the [...]
A NEW professional development tool for HR practitioners has been launched by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). My HR Map is an online self-assessment tool to allow CIPD members, free of charge, to assess themselves against the activities, knowledge and behaviours set out in the CIPD HR Profession Map. The My HR Map [...]
PETERBOROUGH-based training provider Toojays has published a paper looking at relationship awareness. Relationship awareness is a theory developed in the 1970s by psychologist Elias Porter and, according to Toojays, its relevance is as great today as it was 30 years ago. Lee Martin, managing director of Toojays Training and HR consultancy said, “Understanding your customer [...]
EFFECTIVELY engaging and aligning employees was credited for successfully carrying businesses through the recession, according to a recent round table discussion. In accordance with research completed by the Chartered Management Institute in 2009, encouraging employees to realise their full potential was regarded as an essential task to enhance innovation during the economic downturn. Louise Knight, [...]
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