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Smart Buyer: leadership training

by Personnel Today 18 Feb 2010
by Personnel Today 18 Feb 2010

Personnel Today Smart BuyerWelcome to the Smart Buyer guide on leadership training, providing the latest top tips, case studies and expert guidance.

Leadership training and development courses can be expensive and may be critical to the future success of the employing organisation.

This means leadership training and development requires detailed attention from whoever is responsible for it.

Our Smart Buyer guide takes you through the process…

Leadership training

Leadership training overview
You cannot plan leadership development without having reasonable understanding of the senior team’s plans for your organisation.

Supplier selection
Ten top tips for initial supplier selection.

Selecting delegates
Leadership development delegates should be nominated by senior or board level management – insist on evidence that these nominees have leadership potential.

Course content
We discuss what the course components should consist of and consider appropriate accreditation.

Essential leadership skills: Building your team
Gavin Patterson, Chief Executive at BT Retail explains why your first priority is to build a strong team.

The five pillars of leadership
The strategic leadership of your enterprise can be divided into five main areas. Get these right, says Martin Baker, MD of leadership and management online learning specialist LMMatters, and you’re on the path to success.

Smart Buyer is brought to you in association with key providers of leadership training…

PhoenixWorkingManagerLeadershipMatters

We’ve more content on how to buy training or e-learning generally, as well as specific topics of training such as sales, IT and management training…

TRAINING

  • Training overview
  • Four step guide to planning your training, learning and development
  • Supplier selection
  • Payment, ownership and major UK suppliers
  • How to get staff buy-in for training
  • How to tell if training was effective and well delivered
  • Face-to-face or e-learning?
  • Getting performance management to work for you (VIDEO)
  • Managing people’s performance – fact or fiction?
  • Case study: Working Sm@rt at Pepsi QTG

Find out more about the general Training Smart Buyer guide

E-LEARNING

  • E-learning overview
  • Reasons to implement e-learning
  • Supplier selection
  • Training content
  • Mobile training
  • Case study: Online training creation for professional bodies
  • A new perspective on e-learning: online learning that works

 

 

 


 

Find out more about the E-Learning Smart Buyer guide

Looking for training in a different specific area? You may be interested in one of these training topics:

MANAGEMENT TRAINING

  • Overview
  • Supplier selection
  • The course – delegates and content
  • The cost
  • A question of evidence: behaviour-based interviews (VIDEO)
  • Making appraisals work

Find out more about the Management Training Smart Buyer guide

 

SALES TRAINING

  • Overview
  • Types of sales training
  • Supplier selection
  • The cost
  • Ensuring training success

 




Find out more about the Sales Training Smart Buyer guide

 

IT TRAINING

  • Overview
  • Supplier selection
  • Potential e-learning issues
  • John Lewis case study
  • The cost

 




Find out more about the IT Training Smart Buyer guide

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