News: Performance Management
Employers work to make companies attractive to staff
30 January 2008
A growing number of employees are choosing to stay at their current workplace for a long time, and providing better performance management training could help employers take advantage.Williams Johnson of the Gr...
Performance management critical for business
25 January 2008
Performance management is crucial for businesses, and performance management training can be hugely beneficial.Business intelligence solutions provider Cognos claims that "Pervasive PM [performance managem...
Barratt to reintroduce apprenticeship scheme
22 January 2008
Major housebuilding company Barratt will reintroduce an apprenticeship scheme, in the wake of losing many apprentices to its subcontractors.Although the company had previously employed apprentices, many have go...
Businesses urged to contribute to skills development consultation
17 January 2008
Welsh politicians are calling on businesses to get involved in consultations about their plans for the future of skills development in the country. It is hoped that the new Skills that Work for Wales scheme wil...
Staff appraisals can help monitor business performance
15 January 2008
Staff appraisals are an invaluable way of monitoring business performance.Writing on nebusiness.co.uk, Carole White of Tedco argues that appraisals are a good way to set out clear objectives, so that employees ...
Survey: Most care workers feel unappreciated
14 January 2008
A new survey has found that many care workers feel unappreciated.The study of care workers in England by workforce development agency Skills for Care found that they are overwhelmingly happy in their jobs, but ...
Shell, BP and Remploy among new Leitch signatories
11 January 2008
Shell, BP, Scottish & Southern Energy and Remploy are among those companies that have signed up to the Leitch skills pledge so far in 2008.This commits the companies to support the training of their employe...
Pub firm to invest in training ahead of spending slowdown
10 January 2008
Marston's Pub Company is to launch a training initiative to help landlords cope with an anticipated consumer spending slowdown.Economists are predicting that Britons will spend less in 2008, meaning that perfor...
Skills funding for north-east university
09 January 2008
Northumbria University has received £350,000 of funding from a regeneration agency in order to help develop employee skills.The money, from agency One NorthEast, will be used to fund skills development in ...
Skills council calls for more funding in logistics sector
04 January 2008
Skills For Logistics, the sector skills council for distribution companies, has launched a campaign to ensure that firms are not losing out on training funding.In order to address skills shortages in the sector...
More 'training support' needed for line managers
03 January 2008
If a company's performance management efforts are to be successful, line managers need more support to create a culture of learning within the organisation, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has claimed.According ...
Training investment set for growth in 2008
03 January 2008
Investment in training and career development is predicted to increase in 2008, as more companies put resources into non-pay related strategies to ensure that their staff remain as motivated as possible.That is...
Police to receive increased skills training
02 January 2008
Senior police officers are going to receive training to provide them with the skills necessary to deal with the public and businesses, it has been revealed. Under the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA)...
Denham calls for training increase
02 January 2008
Skills secretary John Denham has called on employers to provide more skills training for its workers in an attempt to meet ambitious targets set for 2020. Mr Denham revealed that to stimulate the economy and ke...
