News: Performance Management
Training needs highlighted at talent management conference
30 September 2008
Human resources and training managers in the country's legal firms are increasingly bracing themselves for new credit crunch challenges, a training and talent management delegation has heard.One speaker at the ...
Training and development opportunities 'enhance job satisfaction'
29 September 2008
There is less chance of an employer having a dissatisfied or unmotivated workforce if opportunities for training and promotion are a regular fixture, it has been claimed.According to the Trades Union Congress (...
Training and development 'boost profits as well as performance'
26 September 2008
The employee engagement benefits represented by training and development opportunities have been highlighted during a gathering of business leaders this week.Boosting profits and bolstering the economy were som...
Leadership skills training 'would fill sudden management gap'
26 September 2008
Too few firms implement leadership skills training that would prepare them for the sudden loss of a senior manager, research suggests.According to the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), formerly known...
Performance management: Avoid complex tribunal issues, leaders advised
26 September 2008
Leaders in charge of performance management in their organisations should consider employment law and discrimination training to ward off the risk of "time-consuming and complex" tribunal issues, it h...
Management training: Leadership skills mark out best councils
24 September 2008
Effective leadership skills are distinguishing the country's local authorities from each other, according to the latest 'Best Councils to Work For' analysis from the Times.The survey, which uses a methodology d...
Performance management in focus at CIPD conference
19 September 2008
Effective management training will create leaders who realise their role requires substantially more than simply "being smart", a human resources (HR) expert has claimed.Particularly in times of finan...
'Collective leadership skills' revamped by coaching
18 September 2008
Career coaching is increasingly used as part of firms' staff development and training, it has been claimed.Jason Holder, the assistant director of property services at a Staffordshire-based housing association,...
Graduates identify training as employer priority
18 September 2008
Good-quality training and development opportunities are one of the top deciding factors for graduate jobseekers, new data show.The latest UK Graduate Careers Survey also highlights a preference for client conta...
Management training boosts workers' knowledge 'currency'
17 September 2008
The ultimate outcome of inadequate management training is often de-motivated staff who "hold back" organisations in what is a knowledge-driven economy, it has been claimed.Martyn Sloman, the Chartered...
Training to facilitate 'world class' health service
16 September 2008
Health chiefs are stepping up training and development efforts with the aim of creating a "world class" service for London.Forming part of a ten-year strategy to modernise patient care in the UK, a mu...
Leadership skills training: Strong management imperative to City law firms
12 September 2008
Successful management training and leadership skills development can make or break a City law firm, new research suggests.The Legal Week/Big Question survey probed 153 partners and found the majority in agreeme...
'Bigger picture' painted with appraisals and effective performance management
11 September 2008
Effective performance management in an organisation will endow employees with an ability to chart their progress against "the bigger picture", claims one business specialist.This entails senior manage...
Leaders advised to opt for training, not job cuts
10 September 2008
Firms in the healthcare, transportation and manufacturing sectors could all avoid damaging morale by forgoing job cuts for training and development when they want to boost efficiency.According to a global study...
'Strong leadership' skills weather economic storm for lawyers
10 September 2008
Few legal professionals could fail to benefit from both presentation skills training and development of their leadership skills, a leading industry publication claims.Improvement of both sets of skills would he...
Tackle 'easily bored' graduates with training and development
10 September 2008
Training provides a key aid for managers who struggle to retain impatient and "easily bored" graduate workers, it has been claimed.Pareto Law's Paul Drew pointed out that younger professionals have &q...
Training opportunities linked to employee engagement
05 September 2008
Learning and development opportunities boost employees' engagement with their organisation, according to human resources specialists at the Institute for Employment Studies.Without the availability of regular t...
YouGov poll presents 'training challenge' for bosses
03 September 2008
A lack of training opportunities is one of workers' biggest gripes, according to a YouGov poll of the nation's employees.Carried out on behalf of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the survey of almost 3,000 peop...
Training is part of retail giant's 'long-term business approach'
03 September 2008
Retail giant John Lewis plans to step up its staff training provision to tackle falling sales, rather than resort to job cuts.The chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, Charlie Mayfield, said the importance of...
Leadership skills are managers' top 'personal development' priority
02 September 2008
Greater investment in leadership skills training would reflect the increasing importance UK bosses give to management expertise, a new survey shows.Accountancy specialist Hays Senior Finance also found that bus...
Effective training results in staff retention and 'good sales'
02 September 2008
Effective staff training makes employees feel motivated and "invested in", according to one set of retail specialists.Lisa Titcomb and Liz Bennett from hand-made cosmetics firm Lush also singled out &...
Training can aid retention, research shows
01 September 2008
Firms with a good range of training programmes have lower than average turnover rates, according to research by Computer Economics.The findings were reported by vnunet.com and also show that staff prefer good t...
