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.
When ntl, the UK's leading broadband company, wanted to update its online induction programme in line with its professional, progressive, innovative image, it opted for TATA Interactive Systems (TIS)'s revolutionary, intuitive interface approach which not only caters for individuals' preferred learning styles but also gives them the responsibility and motivation for succeeding in their learning.
Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) announced today it is launching a new initiative to advance the adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology throughout the computer, electronics and information technology (IT) industries.
The industry-designed career mapping website for ICT simplifies the hiring, evaluation and professional development process for HR.
Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), recently chosen by British Airways (BA) as one of only three preferred suppliers of custom built e-learning materials for its 50,000 or so staff, has examples of its latest custom built e-learning courseware on show (on Stand E20) at the e-learning London conference and exhibition at the Business Design Centre, Islington, on 4th and 5th June.
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