Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+

Personnel Today

Register
Log in
Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+

Personnel Today

Training news

by Personnel Today 24 Aug 2004
by Personnel Today 24 Aug 2004

This week’s training news

Birmingham
airport offers epilepsy training to staff

Birmingham International Airport (BIA) is the first UK
airport to offer all operational staff epilepsy training. The travel industry
is one of the sectors the National Society for Epilepsy (NSE) is targeting with
the aim of improving the understanding of epilepsy among the workforce. The
sudden relaxation, excitement, tiredness or additional stress associated with
travelling can trigger seizures for some holidaymakers or business travellers
with epilepsy. With the holiday season in full swing and customer numbers at
their peak, the likelihood of someone having a seizure is higher than ever.
Jennifer Hunt, assistant director of training at NSE, said: "We hope to
roll out the course among more employees at BIA and beyond once other airports
and airlines see the benefits."

Part-time workers are losing out in
the training stakes

Companies are not investing in training for part-time and job-share
workers, according to a new survey among HR and training managers on training
trends and issues. The survey, by training company PTP Training &
Marketing, shows that part-time and job-share workers are least likely to
receive in-house or external training, and represent well under 10 per cent of
the total number of delegates selected for training. The next most
under-represented groups in the training stakes are the over-50s and manual workers
– accounting for just over 10 per cent of those receiving training – followed
by admin staff, accounting for up to 20 per cent of recipients.

Cowboys threaten to damage reputation
of coaching

Coaching is in danger of being given a bad reputation by cowboy operators
entering the market who are inexperienced, have little training and lack the
appropriate knowledge and skills, according to a new guide from the Chartered
Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). The lack of agreed sets of
standards, ethics and qualifications in the coaching industry is partly to
blame for this, the report finds. Jessica Jarvis, CIPD learning, training and
development adviser, said: "Our survey found coaching is the fastest
growing training practice. It can be an effective way of promoting real
learning, rather than tick-box training. But if it is not managed properly, it
can be a waste of money. With a formal strategy, clear objectives and careful
design, there are benefits for both the organisation and the individual."

Sign up to our weekly round-up of HR news and guidance

Receive the Personnel Today Direct e-newsletter every Wednesday

OptOut
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Borough uses drama to improve
customer services

The London Borough of Lewisham is using drama-based training to provide a
consistent level of customer service across all of its directorates. Sharon
Wilkins, manager of Lewisham’s Front Line Academy, a group which runs change
initiatives for staff, said: "In the past, it has been difficult to
provide a consistent level of customer service throughout the authority,
because people work in different areas and circumstances." The council
devised a set of corporate customer service standards that could be adopted and
promoted to customers as a ‘promise’ of good service. These include eight
service principles relating to behaviour, such as being respectful and
courteous, as well as three more performance promises. The council approached
training specialist Steps Drama to launch the standards at a staff conference.
The council is now planning to incorporate drama into its management
development and recruitment processes.

Personnel Today

Personnel Today articles are written by an expert team of award-winning journalists who have been covering HR and L&D for many years. Some of our content is attributed to "Personnel Today" for a number of reasons, including: when numerous authors are associated with writing or editing a piece; or when the author is unknown (particularly for older articles).

previous post
US Government pays £1.3m to injured foreign soldier
next post
Government to set up trade union academy

You may also like

Why we need to rethink soft skills in...

1 Jul 2025

Five misconceptions about hiring refugees

20 Jun 2025

Forward features list 2025 – submitting content to...

23 Nov 2024

Features list 2021 – submitting content to Personnel...

1 Sep 2020

Large firms have no plans to bring all...

26 Aug 2020

A typical work-from-home lunch: crisps

24 Aug 2020

Occupational health on the coronavirus frontline – ‘I...

21 Aug 2020

Occupational Health & Wellbeing research round-up: August 2020

7 Aug 2020

Acas: Redundancy related enquiries surge 160%

5 Aug 2020

Coronavirus: lockdown ‘phase two’ may bring added headaches...

17 Jul 2020

  • Empowering working parents and productivity during the summer holidays SPONSORED | Businesses play a...Read more
  • AI is here. Your workforce should be ready. SPONSORED | From content creation...Read more

Personnel Today Jobs
 

Search Jobs

PERSONNEL TODAY

About us
Contact us
Browse all HR topics
Email newsletters
Content feeds
Cookies policy
Privacy policy
Terms and conditions

JOBS

Personnel Today Jobs
Post a job
Why advertise with us?

EVENTS & PRODUCTS

The Personnel Today Awards
The RAD Awards
Employee Benefits
Forum for Expatriate Management
OHW+
Whatmedia

ADVERTISING & PR

Advertising opportunities
Features list 2025

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin


© 2011 - 2025 DVV Media International Ltd

Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+