Archives by Tag 'management development'
Team Leader Mentoring (Management Mentoring)
Training managers is difficult and expensive, but it does not have to be that way. Team leader & management mentoring is rapidly becoming the approach of choice in replacing conventional & costly internal training programmes, providing one-to-one development in a cost effective and scalable way.
Useful Links
Recently I have noticed a number of trends on many professional forums. There appear to be increasing numbers of people in HRD roles or studying for HRD roles that lack some of the ‘basics’. To meet this need I have written a number of guides and introductory articles, their purpose is to act as a [...]
Action Learning for Leadership Development
Action Learning for Leadership Development
Introduction
When devising any leadership programme, it is important to ensure that as participants students are not only ‘taught’ or trained, but that they have the opportunity to put learning into action. Experience has shown us that unless we practice new skills and ideas soon after a programme we tend to forget [...]
Transactional Analysis (TA) – is it relevant to todays world
Many people have heard of Transactional Analysis (TA) and it was popular a number of years ago in management development programmes but how relevant is a psychoanalytic tool developed in the ‘50s to today’s managers and consultants in industry and commerce?
Free discussion group for those involved in training
One of the best kept secrets in the training world is the daily digest from Training Journal.
Known as the TJ Daily Digest (once the UKHRD started by Fenman)this daily round-up of questions and answers of all things training is free again sign up here to receive it http://www.trainingjournal.com/subscriptions/discussion.php
Great for in-house training specialists to seek [...]
New use of wordpress blog for management articles
For some time I have been looking at ways to include smaller articles on the RapidBI site. Our main articles page www.rapidbi.com/articles/ works well but is not the place for small tips, thoughts and items.
My experience with Wordpress has prompted me to put up a version of wordpress on my site for managing this ‘micro [...]
Innovation – Individual or team effort – "Collective Leadership"
Collective Leadership – the next step in ensuring innovation in organisations? Innovation is no longer about individuals but team approaches. his piece explores innovation as a behaviour rather than just a process.
Executive Innovation the key to success?
Executive innovation is increasingly important, this article explores some of the reasons why innovation has failed to meet expectations.
Management theories and models
The worlds of management, learning and marketing are strewn with management models and theories, this pages lists many of the popular and most useful ones.
Change management – approach and models
Change management is something we do on a regular basis, but often the results are variable, this pages shares some good and best practice models.
