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    • Learning & development

    Sing while you’re training

    by Ross Bentley 17 Oct 2006
    by Ross Bentley 17 Oct 2006

    Opera singers command the stage with powerful voices and a sense of presence. Does this mean that opera singing has a place in presentation and personal impact skills' training?

    • HR practice
    • Leadership

    Leadership: Are UK employers facing a leadership exodus?

    by Ross Bentley 26 Sep 2006
    by Ross Bentley 26 Sep 2006

    Through the years, many of the great and the good have attempted to sum up the qualities that make a...

    • Ethics
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • HR strategy

    Do the right thing

    by Ross Bentley 19 Sep 2006
    by Ross Bentley 19 Sep 2006

    When, at a recent event, an HR director told occupational philosopher Roger Steare that having a policy on ethics was...

    • Learning & development

    Return on investment: In search of the Holy Grail

    by Ross Bentley 19 Sep 2006
    by Ross Bentley 19 Sep 2006

    Learning and development managers are coming under pressure to demonstrate a return on investment from training. It's a hard nut to crack, but there are those who have an answer.

    • Learning & development
    • Training delivery

    The learning game: using games to teach

    by Ross Bentley 19 Sep 2006
    by Ross Bentley 19 Sep 2006

    As digital technology advances, so does games-based learning. Can it win a place in the hearts and minds of training...

    • Learning & development
    • Training strategies

    Learning Management Systems: On the leading edge

    by Ross Bentley 19 Sep 2006
    by Ross Bentley 19 Sep 2006

    IT has revolutionised the way we work. What can it do for the way we train?Justin Skelton, managing director of...

    • Employment law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Maternity

    Working mothers: a benefit or a burden?

    by Ross Bentley 5 Sep 2006
    by Ross Bentley 5 Sep 2006

    Business leaders are concerned about the cost of the extension of maternity leave and the transfer of the administrative burden of maternity benefits from the government to employers

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Family-friendly working

    Why caring matters to HR

    by Ross Bentley 5 Sep 2006
    by Ross Bentley 5 Sep 2006

    Personnel Today is campaigning to introduce tax breaks for staff with caring responsibilities. Ross Bentley spoke to three HR professionals about how their caring duties affect their lives, and what the introduction of such a scheme would mean for them

    • HR practice
    • Teamworking

    The cook, the ape and the Da Vinci Code

    by Ross Bentley 26 Jul 2006
    by Ross Bentley 26 Jul 2006

    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.

    • HR Technology

    IT training: Fiascos fuel demand for soft skills

    by Ross Bentley 26 Jul 2006
    by Ross Bentley 26 Jul 2006

    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?

    • Pay & benefits
    • Pensions

    Competitive edge lost in fight to preserve pensions

    by Ross Bentley 25 Jul 2006
    by Ross Bentley 25 Jul 2006

    Companies are investing in their pension funds with money that would otherwise be spent on innovation and development

    • Stress
    • Mental health
    • Wellbeing

    Mental health in the workplace

    by Ross Bentley 20 Jun 2006
    by Ross Bentley 20 Jun 2006

    All pain – no gain. If employees' mental health problems are ignored, organisations will end up paying the price, so Ross Bentley finds out what you can and should do to help employees with a mental illness

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News
    • Sex discrimination

    Female City worker takes £11m discrimination claim to private hearing

    by Ross Bentley 11 May 2006
    by Ross Bentley 11 May 2006

    A high-flying female City worker thought to be seeking up to £11m in damages from a leading bank for sexual discrimination and unfair dismissal took her claims to a private hearing yesterday

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Job creation and losses

    NHS body claims health service job losses will be minimal

    by Ross Bentley 11 May 2006
    by Ross Bentley 11 May 2006

    Reports of major NHS job losses are misleading, and few people are being made redundant, according to NHS Employers

    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits
    • Pensions

    Company pensions degenerate into a two-tier system

    by Ross Bentley 10 May 2006
    by Ross Bentley 10 May 2006

    A report published today throws the difference between the payout of a final salary pension and a defined contribution pension into sharp relief

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