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MPs’ green light for emergency staff assault law

Staff to strike over privatisation plans at NHS Logistics.

A sour taste of honey – 50 cautionary tales for managers

The not-so-secret diary of a training manager. This month’s entries: luvvies and HRD’s brainwave

We all need someone we can lean on – and if you are in the training game, that someone could be a Sector Skills Council.

Upcoming age discrimination laws will soon be with us. But what will they mean for learning & development professionals?

Cranfield School of Management; Further education views wanted; Skills gap shrinks; Welsh skills assembly; Fear of outsourcing; Fall of eastern promise

Chris Jefferies is a learning & development manager with a mission: to help improve bus safety, appearance and punctuality. He explain why he loves his life at a major bus firm.

A communication training company plans to set up courses on active listening with the charity Childline.Business Communication Forum lead trainer Gerry Griffin said it would work with the London-based charity …

Enter a world of learning: It is one thing sticking an e-learning portal on every employee’s desktop. It is quite another getting them to show interest and use it.

Sometimes it seems that IT and shambles go together like Ant and Dec – you can’t have one without the other. Could that be why project management training is on the rise?

From the lofty to the pedestrian

Nobody’s perfect, not even management, as training specialists the Ken Blanchard Companies found out when they asked 1,400 executives what they think are the biggest mistakes or failings leaders make or have. They include some old favourites.

Adrian Starkey says finding the right fit between coach and client is an absolute must.

There’s nothing like a well thought-out, relevant ice-breaker to get the training ball rolling. Trouble is, more often than not they are a worn-out routine that adds nothing to the event.