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Fat, Forty and Fired by Nigel marsh

Here readers have their say about articles and views published in Training & Coaching Today or on training issues generally. This month getting on the board.

DVD: Wham! Getting them to do what you want them to do

Training and L&D professionals are often called upon to facilitate events. But, although facilitation and training skills are allied, there are some clear differences. And there are also some major similarities.

Innovation is the name of the team-building game. No surprise then, that today’s varieties include human sheepdog trials and The Da Vinci Code. It’s a far cry from raft-building.

Organising a conference – how to plan and run a successful and effective event, by Pauline Appleby

Coaching is bedevilled by a lack of unified theory and qualifications. However, one answer could be effective supervision of coaches – if only pundits could agree on how to go about it.

Croner consultancy warns of dangers of being too parent-focused with leave decisions.

Home secretary John Reid has announced plans to transform the Immigration and Nationality Directorate to make the UK immigration system more effective

Employee web portals used to be about on centralising HR. Now there is an even stronger business case for them, reports Sue Weekes.

Although the number of women directors in companies employing more than 250 has increased by 10% on last year, they are still outnumbered three to one by men

Only one third of the UK’s 100 top legal firms are willing to publish data about the diversity of their staff, according to the government

Despite traditionally enduring lower pay and less opportunity in the workplace, women are still more inclined than men to fiddle their expenses

Ministry of Defence civilian staff in Northern Ireland are to get an extra £14,000 lump sum as part of their redundancy deal

Scotland’s fire service is launching a nationwide drive to recruit more gay officers in an attempt to shed its “macho” image