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90% Recognise the Need for Professional Development
London (UK), May 2016 - Thirty percent of HR experts believe improvement is needed to better align learning and development (L&D) with business objectives, a new survey from Rosetta Stone and the CPD Standards Office reveals. It shows that while 90 per cent of businesses recognise the need for professional development and training, it’s not always provided: 27 per cent of HR decision makers admit they don’t offer it but acknowledge that they should.
» MORENew ETUCE Survey Reports Ring an Alarm Bell
Brussels (BE), May 2016 - The ETUCE has published two new survey reports, available on the ETUCE website, on the "State of Funding in Education, Teachers’ working conditions and Trade union actions, Social dialogue and Collective bargaining". One deals with Central and Eastern European countries and the other with Western European lands. The two reports are a comprehensive "state of play" that combines the outcomes of eight years of economic crisis and fiscal consolidation measures on public finance of education systems, teachers’ working conditions, the role of teacher unions, and the major trends in social dialogue and collective bargaining.
» MORE"The LMS: Are We Experiencing a Sea Change?"
London (UK), April 2016 - It has been estimated that the LMS market will grow to $7.8 billion in 2018. But what is the current state of the LMS market, and where is it expanding? To answer this question and many others, Saffron Interactive surveyed professionals across multiple industries on their current learning platforms. In its white paper "The LMS: Are we experiencing a sea change?" Saffron analyses the results of this survey and tries to discover what customers really need from a learning platform.
» MOREWhat Corporate Strategists Too Often Get Wrong
London (UK), April 2016 - CEOs and their staff must ask themselves if there are good reasons for taking certain paths and avoiding others. A new book by Professor Phanish Puranam from INSEAD and Professor Bart Vanneste from UCL School of Management provides these corporate strategists with the tools needed to understand the alternatives that lie behind major strategic choices.
Positive Trend in Employee Recognition
Milton Keynes (UK), March 2016 - Employers have capitalised on "good will" at the start of 2016 by better recognising staff members for their efforts, according to findings from a new survey from award-winning performance-improvement agency P&MM. The survey was conducted among 1,435 employees across 52 UK organisations between January and February 2016. It revealed that 87 percent of staff felt appreciated by their colleagues and 85 percent by their direct managers. However, the data also suggests that senior leaders are lagging behind in their recognition efforts, with only 57 percent feeling appreciated by senior management.
» MOREBetter Health and Safety Practices in the Workplace
Milton Keynes (UK), March 2016 - P&MM, an award-winning performance-improvement agency, has released a new guide that reveals workable strategies for driving better health and safety practice in the workplace through advanced reward and recognition techniques. The document is entitled "An advanced guide to health and safety recognition in the workplace". » MORE
Independent Report Identifies the World's Top LMS
Simi Valley, CA (USA), March 2016 - A thorough, independent analysis of 690 of the world's leading learning management - and related - systems (LMSs) has identified the top performing fifty. Published by eLearning 24/7, the report is a key tool for LMS buyers and is the work of the internationally known corporate online-learning-industry analyst Craig Weiss. For the last two years, Craig has been named the most influential person in the world of corporate online-learning-technologies in an independently produced industry list. » MORE
How to Use an LMS to Reduce Staff Turnover
Glasgow (SCL), March 2016 - A learning-management system (LMS) can save the average business a great deal of time and money, according to the results various research projects brought together in an e-book by Create eLearning. » MORE
Ken Blanchard's First-Time Manager
Guildford (UK), February 2016 - The Ken Blanchard Companies®, a global leadership-development and management-training company, has released First-time Manager, its new training programme built on the time-tested secrets of The New One Minute Manager. » MORE
The Secret Learning Life of UK Managers
Edinburgh (SCO), January 2016 - A GoodPractice/ComRes report of 500 senior managers in the UK has produced some startling results. For example, it revealed that UK managers do not care how good their learning resources are; they are still going to use Google first because it is easy. » MORE
