Is the availability of free training materials really a free lunch?One of the increasing trends I have noticed over the last few months are people asking on professional forums, groups and networks for "free corporate training materials". This is in some ways a good thing and in many ways a real worry.Why is this good?For some time now there has been a decline in the amount of training (or learning and development activity) taking place in organizations. This is bad for … [Read more...] about Free Corporate Training Material – worth the investment?
What change & business leaders can learn from athletes
Do Athletes Excel At Everyday Tasks? A coaching opportunity Published earlier this month is a fascinating article on some research looking at the perception skills of those people good at athletic compared with other academics. (View the article ) Who can cross a busy road more effectively, a footballer or a psychology student?The experiment:In a virtual reality environment standing on a treadmill, students found themselves parachuted into an alleyway between two buildings. … [Read more...] about What change & business leaders can learn from athletes
Digital Marketing Strategy for HR Professional Services Providers – what is a digital marketing strategy?
Digital Marketing Strategy - do you have one?What is digital marketing?Many of us use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and many other web 2.0 tools, but is it activity or is it strategy? Does it matter? Do we need a digital marketing strategy?The difference to me is in the results. It is all very well being seen on the social media sphere, but does it add value to your business? Does it generate more income that you would have without the activity. re you putting the right effort effort … [Read more...] about Digital Marketing Strategy for HR Professional Services Providers – what is a digital marketing strategy?
Change Management Project Template
Change Management TemplatesMany people are looking for a template on which to base their change management project. While the team at RapidBI do not believe that these are successful or complete tools, many people are not sure where to start.Therefore we provide the template below to act as an aid memoir providing the structure of the project at its initial stages.Remember each change management project is different, and managing the process parts of a change project is only the tip … [Read more...] about Change Management Project Template
Supporting Change in Organisations
How do we support change in organizations? How do HR support change and change management in organisations? This is a HUGE subject. As this question is being asked of HR people more and more in the current climate, this is the first of a series of articles looking at not just change management, but the supporting role that HR, OD and training professionals can make.Lets start out by understanding what the phrase "Support organisations going through change". Now by this I am assuming that we … [Read more...] about Supporting Change in Organisations
Google’s 8 Point plan to be a better manager
Google's 8 Point Plan to be a Better Manager In a previous article we listed a summary of Google's 8 points to be a more effective manager - here is some more detail.Eight good behaviours of effective managers (in priority order for Google)Be a good coach◦Provide specific constructive feedback, balancing the negative and the positive. ◦Have regular one-on-ones, presenting solutions to problems tailored to your employees' specific strengths.•Empower your team and don't … [Read more...] about Google’s 8 Point plan to be a better manager
What are Soft Skills Trainings?
Soft Skills and Technical Skills Training - what is the difference? What are soft skills trainings and why does it matter? In the recruitment industry there is a saying:technical or hard skills will get a person an interview, but effective softskills will gain a job offerSoft skills are usually those personality or personal attributes that enable a persons social interactions and effectiveness. This can lead to enhanced (business) relationships, job performance and career prospects. … [Read more...] about What are Soft Skills Trainings?
Marketing plan for a training company
How to develop a marketing plan for your training company What is a marketing plan? A Marketing Plan is sometimes called a marketing strategy, in essence it is an action plan of what it is you are going to do to promote your business. Like any SMART goal it is a written plan that states the marketing goals and the objectives to be achieved over a specified period of time.So if you are currently in business or looking to set up a training company or starting out in freelance training, the … [Read more...] about Marketing plan for a training company
Change House Model
The Change House ModelThere are many change management models, one that is becoming increasingly popular is one often referred to as: "The Change House Model", "The House of Change Model" or the "Four Rooms of Change model". History of the Change House Model Originally developed in the early 1970's by Claes F Janssen, it's original or proper name is The Four Rooms of Change or the 4-Room Apartment.In Janssen's work this is represented as: The Four Rooms of Change … [Read more...] about Change House Model
Where do you see yourself in a year…5 years?
or Where do you want to be in 12 months time? A question asked out of concern or "intellegence gathering"?This type of question is often asked at one of two stages - at interview and at "career development" sessions or appraisals once employed.Much has been written about this in the interview context - less so once employed.This (unfortunately) is a common question asked by HR, HRD and other people interested in the career progression of colleagues. But is there more to the question … [Read more...] about Where do you see yourself in a year…5 years?
Top Tips to Manage and Coach a “Micro-Manager”
Tips to Manage and Coach a "Micro-Manager" Have you ever had one of those managers that need to see every little step, make sure you are doing the task "their way"?Frustrating isn’t it?This is worse for the organization as why have both of you employed if you are both in effect doing the same job. Micromanagement is usually used in a negative connotation and definitely points towards excessive control or close attention to finer details. A micromanager is created when a person is … [Read more...] about Top Tips to Manage and Coach a “Micro-Manager”
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Leadership and Management Models Download PowerPoint Slides – page 3At RapidBI we use many management and leadership models and through the process of using them we have developed a library of 100′s.These pages have proved so popular that we now offer unbranded PowerPoint slides for you to download and use.Please note many of the models on the slides are copyright – please use appropriately. Go back to page 1 of the models Go back to page 2 of the models [wp_eStore_fancy1 … [Read more...] about leadership-and-management-models-download-page-3
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Leadership and Management Models Download PowerPoint Slides - page 2 At RapidBI we use many management and leadership models and through the process of using them we have developed a library of 100′s.These pages have proved so popular that we now offer unbranded PowerPoint slides for you to download and use.Please note many of the models on the slides are copyright – please use appropriately. Go back to page 1 of the models [wp_eStore_fancy1 id=1]Deming … [Read more...] about leadership and management models download- page 2
10 Myths about Copyright
Top ten things you need to know about copyright A call from a potential customer about copyright yesterday led me to recall some issues around what could and could not be "copied" or used. I found this valuable article on copyright and have included the headlines in this article below.First lets look at what © copyright is:"Copyright law secures for the creator of a creative effort the exclusive right to control who can make copies, or make works derived from the original work" - Brad … [Read more...] about 10 Myths about Copyright
But we are different
In our industry we're unique I read an interesting post yesterday entitled "We're Unique". the full title of the piece was "We’re Unique” (Sure You Are)" and the intro that led me to read this was interesting, however when I went to the blog I was disapointed that the actual article was no much longer than the initial introduction.In itself the article stated the obvious but did not give any hints tips or ideas on how to change the situation.There was me expecting to read some … [Read more...] about But we are different
One Page Business Plan – how to write
One Page Business Plan This article on simple one page business planning has been on the agenda for some time but never quite made it to the keyboard. Often when I run business advice sessions one of the biggest barriers to many people starting a business – or at least a barrier in their head is the business plan. They go on course, read business start-up websites and they all say you must start with a plan – well they are right – but not the sort of plan that many of the business books … [Read more...] about One Page Business Plan – how to write
Education – keeping up with the Joneses
Continous education or die... While working one the development of my site, I have recently been working with a rather skilled computer programmer/ coder from Vietnam. During our skype conversations he mentioned that he was going to night school. Then I remembered that one of the providers we used in Dubai specialised in "night school" classes - their main income. This got me thinking - why in the UK is there such a small percentage of people paying for themselves to go to night … [Read more...] about Education – keeping up with the Joneses
Training Materials For Trainers
Training Materials for Trainers Do people need "off the shelf" ready to use training materials?With the (re) launch of the store on TrainingZone recently, and the background work we have been doing preparing ready-to-use training materials, this trend got me thinking. Do we need such resources? Is there a market for this material? If so why is there a market?HistoryIn the past many trainers attended train the trainer courses which built up a level of skills and awareness, and in … [Read more...] about Training Materials For Trainers
PRIMO-F business growth model
PRIMO-F - The Business Growth Model The PRIMO-F model was developed as part of a SWOT analysis of an organization. It provides a consistent framework for comparison either from within the organization or to benchmark against a previous analysis or benchmark against other organizations.The PRIMO-F model was based on some research work from the Durham University Business School (DUBS), looking at what makes an organization and it's management effective.This research demonstrated that … [Read more...] about PRIMO-F business growth model
Adwords trainer & Adwords training
Do you need an Adwords trainer? Today I received a discount code for advertising on LinkedIn, for some reason I then went to do a search and saw a link "we are #1 on google search for Adwords trainer - try it and find out". This showed About 290,000 results. This got me thinking. Why I even started this I don't know but it was a useful 30 minute exploration.Early in 2004/5 when I first started this site I did try using adwords to raise traffic to the then new website. Like many consulting … [Read more...] about Adwords trainer & Adwords training
