Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service (HFRS) needed to give its 1,000 firefighters quick and easy access to risk-critical training - without burning through their budget.
Insights from 230 organisations across five continents, representing more than 1.6 million employees to help HR Managers make better decisions
Richardson and its clients took Gold, Silver, and Bronze — a total of nine awards – at the Seventh Annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Winners of this international competition, which recognizes sales excellence in disciplines vital to business success, were announced Monday, February 25, at a gala ceremony at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas.
Global performance improvement solutions provider GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE: GPX) is pleased to announce the publication of the third edition of Leading Out Loud by thought leader and business partner, Terry Pearce, and the accompanying Leadership Development Program updated by GP Strategies’ BlessingWhite division.
The workforce is increasingly working from home! The MASIE Center’s Learning CONSORTIUM has announced TeleWork 2013, a global conference focused on the changing world of teleworking and telecommuting, from June 23 to 25 in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Learning Pool has announced plans to create new jobs with the launch of its Rising Star Programme.
Jurys Inn faced the challenge of engaging with over 1,900 employees, working in a busy 24/7 environment, in 35 locations across the UK and Ireland. Using Totara from Learning Pool ensures that a comprehensive and consistent learning and development experience is delivered.
Fujitsu chooses QA to help transform learning and development.
Executives Increasingly Seek Virtual Personal Coaching Solutions to Facilitate Advanced Skill Development and Accelerate Business Growth
The UK’s leader in learning and development recruitment, Blue Eskimo, has just launched its annual salary and work survey.
NetDimensions and OpenSesame announced a powerful partnership and platform integration. This partnership will enable NetDimensions’ millions of users to search for, purchase, and deploy training courses within the NetDimensions Talent Suite, instantly.
DuPont Sustainable Solutions announces the release of HazCom: In Sync with GHS, a new training program that explains the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) revised HazCom standard. The standard now incorporates the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS).
Blue Eskimo, the specialist recruitment company for training and e-learning professionals, has received accreditation from the Learning & Performance Institute for the third year running.
Blue Eskimo, the specialist recruitment company for training and e-learning professionals, is available at Learning Live to discuss how the skills needed by learning professionals are changing.
L&D recruitment specialist Blue Eskimo believes that linking the organisation’s LMS with its talent management system or recruitment processes delivers real benefits.
Training, learning and e-learning recruitment company Blue Eskimo says that even the best learning professionals need to keep their skills sharp to stay relevant.
Specialist learning recruitment company Blue Eskimo says that organisations are working ineffectively if HR, recruitment and training operate separately.
The British "We Mean Business" National Info Day will show how companies benefit from hosting international trainees. The National Info Day will take place at the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills Conference Centre in London. The recently launched "We Mean Business" initiative aims to encourage companies to host more Erasmus and Leonardo da Vinci trainee placements to boost young people's skills and employability as well as to help companies' competitiveness and search for new staff.
Metersbonwe has selected the NetDimensions Talent Suite to support its multi-stage talent management strategy for its 20,000 employees across mainland China.
DVDs Address Ethics and Compliance, Responsible Business Communications and Respect in the Workplace.
Lumesse, a global leader in integrated talent management solutions, today announced that it was ranked #1 among the top providers of talent management software in HRO Today’s 2012 Baker’s Dozen Ratings. The rankings were based on independent customer surveys carried out in the first quarter of 2012.
The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) has today (Monday) launched the Learning Survey 2012 – a comprehensive review of the workplace learning sector.
Webanywhere, a leading provider of web technology solutions for workplace learning, is pleased to announce that it has become a sponsor of Leeds Business School's new HRD and Leadership Research Unit. Other sponsor organisations include WM Morrison Supermarkets plc, Hallmark Cards, Unilever and BUPA.
Information overload - such as that experienced by UK workers - can only be tackled by a company wide solution, such as behavioural training, according to a senior Australian psychologist.
EssentialSkillz, the global provider of online safety training and risk assessment software has added a new course on Social Media Policy to its suite of e-learning solutions.
Salvo Global's 5th Annual Global Learning Summit is taking place in Singapore on February 22-24, 2012. The summit brings together the most up to date learning solutions and strategies, senior-level renowned speakers from across the globe and great networking opportunities, and, now in its fifth year, has grown onto one of the esteemed learning industry events in Singapore.
The failure of a Government project to set up nine regional fire control centres at a cost of £439m to the taxpayer could have been predicted, says The Ken Blanchard Companies. The 'Firecontrol' project, which should have replaced 46 regional control centres was scrapped last year, having achieved none of its original objectives. Now MPs are saying it was 'flawed from the outset.'
The Bribery Act 2010 covers all organisations operating in or controlled from the UK. Organisations of all types need to ensure that they have taken all reasonable steps to ensure compliance. So part of the challenge set by the Act is to ensure that all managers, staff and associates are trained in the context and requirements of the new Act and that a reliable audit trail of the training is maintained.
In a bid to help ‘UK plc’ run more smoothly and become more successful, Ron Rosenhead, chief executive of the project management training and development specialist, Project Agency, has revealed the eight key factors that keep active projects on track.
Leading barrister and specialist on the Bribery Act James Vine talks to CM Group's Tim Buff about the new Act and its implications for us all.
Leading UK training and development company CM Group produces training on a wide range of topics and has just confirmed that in the past twelve months it helped train over 85,000 people across the world specifically in the subject of ethical business alone.
Maximizing the latest learning strategies and successful integration of innovative technologies onto your learning and development practices; taking your business to the next level.
With the new UK Bribery Act coming into force July 1st, the new course is aimed at educating employees on how it affects them and how it impacts on current working practices.
For the last three years, Core Learning Services (CLS), a consultancy providing e-learning-related products and services, has been working in partnership with Global Radio - the UK's premier commercial radio company – to host Global Radio’s LMS solution for developing health and safety e-learning materials to its staff.
Although training is no guarantee that accidents will be prevented, it certainly helps mitigate the risk to both the employee and the business.
Global E-Learning provider, EssentialSkillz, have released two new libraries of editable courses under their brand O-LAS Content. Developed using their own authoring tool, O-LAS Author, each course is editable by clients to ensure that the content is relevant to their organisation.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Jan. 25, 2011 – DuPont Sustainable Solutions announced that it is collaborating with the Ethics and Compliance Services Division of Watermark Risk Management International, LLC to provide Watermark’s code of conduct consultation services. Through this association, Watermark, a leading provider of security and risk management consulting, will advise organizations in developing a new or updating an existing code of conduct, and DuPont Sustainable Solutions will provide the training support to help employees understand and implement the code.
WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. 13, 2010 - DuPont Sustainable Solutions has released 'Social Media: Reduce the Risk,' a new training course on DVD to help organizations mitigate potential risks resulting from participation in social media networks.
WhiteConcierge is the sector-leading service organisation that provides the customers of its large clients with lifestyle and concierge services. They needed a SharePoint-based solution to combine geospatial data with the data provided by their existing service provider databases and present the results to their front line service staff. In turn enabling the service staff to further improve the quality of service they provide to their customers. CM Group's consulting arm developed the software, integrated it into WhiteConcierge's SharePoint environment, and trained staff on how to use the solution.
Following the cuts, the job-losses and the pay-freezes the public sector is faced with having to continue to provide the same service, with considerably less to offer its staff. However there are things the public sector can do in order to keep their staff motivated and better prepared to handle what lies ahead: Training. A few companies have been putting their heads together to offer the best possible solution, here’s what we’ve come up with:
Dr. Maureen Murphy, Director of Aurion Learning has offered her congratulations to the well-being hub for being a double winner at the Irish News 2010 Workplace and Employment Awards.
DuPont Training Solutions powered by Coastal announces a new Ethics & Compliance training curriculum to help organizations meet corporate compliance requirements and champion ethical business practices.
Training company Happy Ltd was this week rated as one of the UK's Best Workplaces for the 5th successive year. The company won the prestigious Laureate status as one of the few companies to have made the list five times in a row.
Aurion Learning and the Law Society have launched a CPD Centre to help solicitors in England and Wales plan and manage their continuing professional development (CPD).
Raytheon Professional Services LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), was named the No.1 training outsource provider in HRO Today magazine's 'Baker's Dozen in Learning.'
Aurion Learning, a specialist online learning solutions provider is working with the Law Society of England and Wales to create a new online learning portal. The Belfast based company has beaten off stiff competition to win a substantial contract to design and develop an online continuing professional development (CPD) portal for the Law Society.
November, 2009 – Coastal Training Technologies has released a new program that features privacy guidelines from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Leakproof: 8 Privacy Principles explores these international standards to strengthen privacy policies and increase consumer confidence.
Struggling to find enough money in the kitty to throw an office Christmas party? Then stop looking. Mark Paskowitz, a senior consulting partner with The Ken Blanchard Companies, says there are better ways to let your employees know you’re grateful anyway.
As the November 1, 2009 deadline approaches, financial organizations are finalizing efforts to comply with the Red Flags Rule, the federal regulation that requires pertinent institutions to develop an Identity Theft Program
Coastal's best-selling micro-inequities program, Drop by Drop, earned a perfect, four-star review in Training Media Review (TMR).
Information Transfer and Priory Group have been shortlisted for the E-learning industry award for outstanding achievement. The joint entry tells the story of Foundations for Growth (FFG), a blended corporate learning programme with e-learning at its heart.
Happy Ltd, the training provider that includes Happy Computers, was today named as one of the top 20 employers in the UK for working families. This follows on from Happy being named as the best workplace in IT services and the best company in the UK for health and well-being, both in the last week. Happy joins a list that includes Accenture, BT, Ford, Lloyds TSB and the Nationwide Building Society.
Happy Computers was this week named as the best place to work in the IT services industry.
Happy Ltd, the training company that includes Happy Computers, was last night named as the best company in the UK for the health and well-being for its staff. The award was given at the announcement of the annual Best Workplaces list. Happy was listed as one of the top 20 workplaces in the country for the fourth successive year.
Raytheon Professional Services LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), and DTE Energy (NYSE: DTE) were awarded the Learning Relationship of the Year Award by the Human Resources Outsourcing Association (HROA) in recognition of the success of their training outsourcing partnership.
Industry-leading SaaS-based platform enables high-impact success around employee collaboration, development and performance.
CoastalAMI has recently launched Understanding the New ADA, a new and timely program that helps organizations comply with the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. It reviews ADA basics, surveys the major changes and cites tips to restructure policies, address employee needs and boost compliance efforts.
Coastal garners yet another accolade as Drop by Drop, its best-selling micro-inequities program, was recently awarded the 2009 CINE Special Jury Award, Best in Business - Safety, Training & Employee Development. The recognition is another stamp of approval, a solid testimony to Coastal's commitment to quality Human Resources training.
Understanding how people filter for information and where they place their interest and energy can assist line managers in motivating them by using matching language. This then builds rapport, helps people feel comfortable and accepted at work and motivates higher performance. In these challenging times we need our employees to give the best customer service possible and they can only do this if it comes from within.
Learning and talent management experts from Cornerstone OnDemand and Astadia Consulting UK Limited are hosting a business breakfast on Friday, November 28 to reveal proven ways for successfully attracting, motivating, developing and retaining high performers in a down economy. Event also to feature executives from Homeloan Management Limited (HML) and Willis Global Recruitment.
Blue Eskimo, the UK's leading training and e-learning recruitment specialist, is responding to skills demands in the learning and development market by expanding its team with the appointment of Jill James, Caroline Rochford and Jackie Mennie.
The UK's leading provider of outsourced third party mortgage administration services has chosen Cornerstone Learning for 2,250 users.
One of Coastal HealthTrain's most recent programs addresses a pressing issue in healthcare today. Cultural Competency: Just Good Healthcare illustrates how patients' cultural and religious norms affect every stage of the treatment process. It trains healthcare staff to respect these beliefs and to provide sensitive and patient-centered care.
A new national Register of TAP® qualified learning and development professionals was launched at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Annual Conference and Exhibition, which is taking place in Harrogate today.
Industry analyst David Wilson and executives from Barclays and Allied Irish Bank (AIB) shared insight into key trends and best practices for integrated talent management at Cornerstone OnDemand EMEA user group conference in London.
TPS are proud to release their autumn training dates to become certified in using the iWAM assessment tool, exclusively for anyone working within the human resources, training and development and coaching sectors.
Psychometric assessments incorporate a number of methods used by employers to choose the right person for the job, or to make promotional decisions and assess a development need and interestingly about 75% of medium to large sized companies that we work with, use some form of psychometrics within their selection procedures.
The ROI Academy™ was invited to run a workshop session at last week’s meeting of the HR Exchange Forum. The HR Exchange forum meet on a quarterly basis to discuss key issues and last week’s meeting was focussed on Reward Issues and Performance Management.
Cornerstone OnDemand's Spring 2008 release offers strategic talent pooling, enhanced certification management for better compliance, and self-service tools to empower organisations to engage their workforce.
With average client engagement of over 10,000 users, the learning and talent management leader is 'changing the game' for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
Talent management solutions provider helps organisations develop their partners and customers and train for profit.
Andrea Roselli, Vice President of Design and Development for Richardson, has been named one of Training magazine’s 2008 Top Young Training Leaders. This new awards program recognizes the outstanding talents, accomplishments, and leadership of training professionals age 40 and under.
Cornerstone OnDemand, the provider of on-demand, integrated learning and talent management (ITM) software and services, has joined other major players in the human capital management (HCM) world, including SAP and SkillSoft, in co-sponsoring a groundbreaking report on 'onboarding' - or, as it is known in the UK, induction.
Richardson, a leading sales training and consulting firm, has been named to both The Div100 and The Div500 lists by DiversityBusiness.com. The Div100 is the 8th annual listing of Pennsylvania’s Top 100 Small Businesses and The Div500 is the 8th annual listing of the nation’s Top 500 Small Businesses. Richardson was ranked #9 and #171, respectively.
E-consultancy announce their first HR training event, 'Digital for HR professionals', February 13th, 2007.
CoastalAMI announces the release of Communication Breakdown - an engaging new business communications training program.
CoastalAMI announces the release of The Consultant: Just In Time Information series
Recently there has been dramatic growth in the demand for coach supervisors caused by a huge growth in the number of coaches. The CIPD's 2006 learning and development survey showed that nearly 8 in 10 respondents were using coaching activities in one form or another and a similar number were seeking to develop an organisational culture characterised by coaching to support improved performance (www.cipd.co.uk).
The benefits of Executive Coaching are well recognised and proven to deliver significant return on investment and benefits to the bottom line but how should you decide whether to us in house or external coaches. What are the benefits of each and which is right for your organisation?
Yes, your employees can learn something from meerkats! These tiny animals use teamwork and cooperation to ensure their survival while enduring the extreme conditions of the Kalahari desert!
Who Cares? provides both the information and inspiration your staff needs to provide excellent customer service.
Raise awareness about potentially difficult situations, help employees to avoid harassing and disrespectful behaviors, create a healthy environment for everyone, and avoid costly lawsuits.
Now more than ever, it's important to train all personnel to recognize the various forms of harassment. This new program will raise awareness regarding harassment and explain the dos and don'ts of creating a respectful work environment for everyone.
Harassment: The Real Scene will raise awareness and leave no doubt in the minds of employees about the importance of avoiding harassing behaviors in the workplace.
Last week the Times described how psychometric tests can identify a potential leader, provided they are tailored to the role and are part of a programme of feedback and development.
Following a successful year in 2006, helping improve performance of individuals, teams and organisations, Extended DISC has committed to increase its range of services designed to improve performance, in response to customer demand and an ongoing need for businesses to improve performance in order to stay competitive.
According to new research published by the TUC, stress is the biggest problem in UK work place. A TUC survey of safety representatives found excessive workloads, job cuts and rapid change to be the most common triggers of stress in the workplace.
With up to a third of high flying employees experiencing a period of sustained performance problems (Jennie Harrison, People Management magazine 28th Sept 2006), Extended DISC UK highlights the importance of managing performance of high flying executives.
Extended DISC has now launched 2007 dates for its popular certification courses.
With new age discrimination laws in force from 1st October, employers need to be more accountable than ever when demonstrating that their recruitment and selection processes are objective and provide clear evidence of why a candidate has been selected over other candidates.
UK Companies are slowly recovering from a slump in employee creativity and resources, but it's not down to buying in new and exciting people, writes The Performance Solution, its down to UK companies being brave enough to invest in the people.
Speaking at the first global JobEQ conference in Belgium on 1st July, Sally Vanson from The Performance Solution raised issues from her current research into Identity and Transformational Change at work. She discussed the importance of measuring attitudes and motivators as well as behaviours, and the need to re-evaluate through a regular re-measure as employees become more settled in their roles or where there is a large organisational change.
Extended DISC UK is launching a research panel with the purpose of researching a number of different areas in relation to the Extended DISC personal analysis profile. They are looking for members of the panel who already know their Extended DISC profile and would be prepared to complete a short survey research questionnaire every few months using the Extended DISC online research and survey tools.
Sally Vanson, Allan Parker and Jackie Smith took over as Directors of the UK Franchise of Extended DISC, a powerful psychometric tool , in August last year. In 2006 Extended DISC has increased in popularity and has seen its client base grow from strength to strength.
To inject some 'fun' and variety into working life, the global e-learning producer Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) has introduced Salsa dance classes for its employees.
A panel of experts have decided to nominate The Training Foundation for the e.learning age industry award for outstanding achievement - to be presented at a gala dinner at The Royal Garden Hotel, Kensington, London on October 13th.
After five years, Extended DISC the fastest growing psychometric and surveys tool is under new ownership in the UK. The surveys tool particularly offers easy options for bespoke Customer Satisfaction, Employee Attitude, Organisational Climate and Quality Audits.
The Performance Solution has developed the first Masters degree in Organisational Neuro Linguistic Programming in the world. Sixteen international pathfinders are already engaged in applying their skills through their work based learning assignments. This MSc is fully accredited and applications are being accepted now for September 2005 start.
When one of Europe's leading universities - the University of Sheffield - decided that it needed to provide a consistent, easily accessible induction programme for new staff, it turned to global e-learning pioneer Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) to provide it.
TATA Interactive Systems (TIS), a global leader in e-learning, is building on its impressive successes in the UK and Europe over the past year by expanding its range of offerings to clients. These new products and services are on display at the TIS stand at this year's Learning Technologies show, being held in London's Olympia, on 26th and 27th January.
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