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Using competencies in the workplace
Date: 07/10/2008
Competencies are as popular as ever in the UK, this IRS survey of 210 employers shows, and employers are agreed about the best ways of designing, introducing and applying them. Their feedback provides the basis for a checklist of effective practice contained in the survey report.

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Peer-to-peer coaching gains in popularity
Date: 22/09/2008

One form of coaching that seems to be bouncing along merrily is the peer-to-peer variety. Some advocates say its time has come.


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Creating mental health care courses at the NHS
Date: 22/09/2008

When seven NHS trusts decided they wanted to share mental health care courses and put them online it created quite a challenge. How was it met?


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Blended learning: the experts' opinions
Date: 19/09/2008

Is blended learning simply e-learning in disguise? Training & Coaching Today finds out.


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Case studies: Generation Y
Date: 17/09/2008

Personnel Today discovers how employers can get the best out of their Generation Y employees, drawing on experiences from Cancer Research, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the US army.


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Albion Chemicals Group invests in training
Date: 28/08/2008

Albion Chemicals Group refocused its training activity in order to integrate with its new parent company, while maintaining and developing its local customer service infrastructure.


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Employers must base training on risks they ought to foresee
Date: 04/08/2008

Health and Safety Bulletin reports on an important appeal judgment on how employers should assess the adequacy of their training provision.


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Online training tools: video
Date: 28/07/2008

Learning management systems providers are looking to bring a little more to the training table, in the form of "richer media".


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Communicating job requirements through competency frameworks
Date: 28/07/2008

Competency frameworks should be a valuable training aide - if applied and used properly.


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Case study: Performance management at English National Ballet
Date: 25/07/2008

Introducing a performance management programme into a ballet company provided some unique challenges.


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Climate for change: market overview
Date: 24/07/2008

The current economic turbulence is great news for change management experts, who are in high demand. Personal Today investigates.


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Case study: Citi's drive to retain women after maternity leave
Date: 07/07/2008

The award-winning strategy to improve the representation of women at financial services company Citi includes a series of initiatives to encourage women to return to work after maternity leave.


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Case study: Bentley grows its own managers
Date: 24/06/2008

Bentley Motors has used a tailor-made management development training course to meet its target of appointing 85% of new recruits from within the organisation.


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Ten steps to a coaching culture
Date: 24/06/2008

Investing in coaching for the sake of it will never get results. Personnel Today suggests 10 ways to embed a coaching culture in your organisation.


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Teambuilding: taking a scientific approach to designing activities
Date: 19/06/2008

Teambuilding activities have had a bad press over the years - many events have been little more than work jollies. Training & Coaching Today looks at how employers can utilise them more effectively.


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Competencies: are they effective?
Date: 13/06/2008

Do you use, or are you considering introducing, competencies within your organisation? If so, IRS would like your help in our research into the effectiveness of competencies by completing a short online questionnaire. In return, we will provide you with a free copy of the research report.


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Case study: Scope helps individuals with disabilities gain work
Date: 11/06/2008

Disability charity Scope has a successful track record in helping break down the barriers to work for individuals with disabilities. Its graduate training programme has a 90% success rate, while action within its own organisation is improving the representation of disabled people through cultural change, target-setting and reserved posts.


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Survey: Leadership development trends 2008
Date: 10/06/2008

A successful leadership development strategy can shape the culture, direction and even success of an organisation. This IRS survey looks at how 74 organisations have tackled the leadership development challenge, and highlights key learning points from HR.


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Coaching executives as a team
Date: 03/06/2008

Instead of coaching board executives as individuals why not coach the top team as a whole? Training & Coaching Today reports.


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E-learning: still not incorporated effectively
Date: 03/06/2008

Despite e-learning having been with us for more than a decade, it seems that many learning and development professionals are still struggling to embed it effectively in their organisations.


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Survey: Investors in People
Date: 29/05/2008

Employment Review's survey of 81 organisations shows that those with direct experience of Investors in People have not always had the results they expected.


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HR qualifications: choosing a joint honours degree
Date: 19/05/2008

You can now study almost any combination of degree subjects with HR, but Personnel Today questions what real value this adds to the skills coming into the profession.


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Employees to get right to request time off for training
Date: 15/05/2008

The Government has announced plans for the introduction of a right to request time off to undertake training, as part of its draft legislative programme for 2008/09.


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360-degree assessments: the importance of training
Date: 06/05/2008

Introducing a 360-degree assessment system is all very well, but it won't deliver unless training needs are addressed.


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