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Ross Wigham

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    • Learning & development

    Train to Gain: Skilling through the slump

    by Ross Wigham 9 Feb 2009
    by Ross Wigham 9 Feb 2009

    The government says it will pump more money into training and skills development. Is Train to Gain the right channel...

    • Latest News

    The Learning Technologies show and conference 2009

    by Ross Wigham 13 Jan 2009
    by Ross Wigham 13 Jan 2009

    Show me the way|: If it's January, it must be the Learning Technologies show and conference. We look at what visitors can expect from the event.

    • Education - further and higher
    • Learning & development
    • Recruitment & retention

    Foundation degrees: Learning by degrees

    by Ross Wigham 18 Nov 2008
    by Ross Wigham 18 Nov 2008

    Foundation degrees  offer employees and employers the chance to provide learning that has a tangible outcome. Maybe that’s why hundreds...

    • Coaching and mentoring
    • HR strategy
    • e-learning

    Training focus: Generation Y – they do it their way

    by Ross Wigham 14 Sep 2008
    by Ross Wigham 14 Sep 2008

    Training Generation Y is a challenge for Generation X trainers. Ross Wigham reports.More Generation Y articlesEvery generation has its quirks and...

    • Career development
    • Coaching and mentoring
    • Learning & development

    Competency frameworks: Ignorance isn’t always bliss

    by Ross Wigham 14 Jul 2008
    by Ross Wigham 14 Jul 2008

    Competency frameworks should be a valuable training aide – if used properlyYou’d think having a sound understanding of what you...

    • Learning & development
    • UK Commission for Employment & Skills

    Sector skills councils: Can do better

    by Ross Wigham 5 Jun 2008
    by Ross Wigham 5 Jun 2008

    Sector skills councils are tasked with improving the nation’s skills base. Yet, many of them struggle to make the grade...

    • Change management
    • HR strategy
    • Learning & development

    Change management: The more things change…

    by Ross Wigham 22 Apr 2008
    by Ross Wigham 22 Apr 2008

    Change management is near the top of many training agendas. Why so, and how should it be addressed?To say that...

    • Action learning
    • Learning & development

    Mobile learning: Learning as you go

    by Ross Wigham 18 Mar 2008
    by Ross Wigham 18 Mar 2008

    They’re here, they’re there, they’re every flippin’ where, mobile phones, mobile phones. But what makes them and their hand-held cousins...

    • HR strategy
    • Learning & development
    • Offshoring

    Outsourcing: Off-loading the burden

    by Ross Wigham 4 Mar 2008
    by Ross Wigham 4 Mar 2008

    Outsourcing the supply and delivery of training has become mainstream. Yet it’s a road that should be travelled with extreme...

    • Employment law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Learning & development

    Diversity: Get the right mix

    by Ross Wigham 4 Mar 2008
    by Ross Wigham 4 Mar 2008

    The mere mention of tribunal claims can send a shiver down employers’ spines. And, with mistakes around diversity sometimes being...

    • Career development
    • Learning & development
    • Learning & Skills Councils

    Mission near impossible: finding and developing leaders

    by Ross Wigham 22 Jan 2008
    by Ross Wigham 22 Jan 2008

    Finding and developing organisational leaders is no easy task. Yet it’s probably the most important one facing learning and development...

    • Learning & development
    • Training programme design

    Learning Technologies Exhibition and Conference: Show and tell

    by Ross Wigham 22 Jan 2008
    by Ross Wigham 22 Jan 2008

    If it’s January, then it must be Kensington Olympia for the thousands of training and learning and development professionals who...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Disability

    Law in practice: disability

    by Ross Wigham 20 Dec 2007
    by Ross Wigham 20 Dec 2007

    The demand for talent is demonstrating that diversity is a key ‘bottom line’ business issue. With competition for the best...

    • Careers in HR
    • Change management
    • Employee relations

    Who will deliver human resources at Royal Mail?

    by Ross Wigham 26 Nov 2007
    by Ross Wigham 26 Nov 2007

    After five years at the helm of HR at the Royal Mail, Tony McCarthy is heading off to British Airways....

    • Absence
    • Economics, government & business
    • Department for Work and Pensions

    Sicknote culture: The role of GPs in reform

    by Ross Wigham 26 Nov 2007
    by Ross Wigham 26 Nov 2007

    Major reforms of the benefit system are set to dramatically reduce the number of British workers on long-term sick leave,...

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